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In research on stratification and inequality, administrative data are popular for their wide coverage and assumed high quality. Yet, the quality of the data depends crucially on the aim of data collection. In this paper, we investigate the quality of information on education in administrative data from social security records provided by the German Federal Institute for Employment Research where education ...
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Quality & Quantity
54 (2020), 1, S. 3-25
| Jule Adriaans, Peter Valet, Stefan Liebig
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Statement
Das Bundeskabinett hat die Wiedereinführung der Meisterpflicht für insgesamt zwölf Handwerke beschlossen. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Karl Brenke, Arbeitsmarktexperte des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
09.10.2019| Karl Brenke
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Politikberatung kompakt 142 / 2019
Yemen has been involved in a civil war with foreign military intervention since 2014. Throughout the conflict, the majority of the population have been cut off from the public electricity grid. However, as alternatives have been unavailable, the country has turned to decentralised solar energy, giving rise to an unprecedented deployment of solar (home) systems.
This report uses own calculations, new ...
2019| Dawud Ansari, Claudia Kemfert, Hashem al-Kuhlani
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper examines the effects of substantial changes in paid parental leave on child development and socio-economic development gaps. We analyse a German reform that replaced a means-tested with an earnings-related benefit scheme. Higher-income households benefited relatively more from the reform than low-income households. The reform expanded paid leave in the first year, while it removed paid leave ...
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Labour Economics
61 (2019), 101754
| Mathias Hübener, Daniel Kuehnle, C. Katharina Spieß
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We study the employment effects of a large increase in the early retirement age (ERA) of women. Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pensioners at the same time. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may choose other social support programs as exit routes from employment. Results suggest that the reform increases employment, unemployment ...
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Journal of Human Resources
56 (2021), 1, S. 311-341
| Johannes Geyer, Clara Welteke
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth grade teachers observed each other. We find that two cohorts of students taught by treated teachers perform no ...
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Economics of Education Review
82 (2021), 102091, 18 S.
| Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt, Gill Wyness
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Economic inequality is rising globally and due to developments in information technologies and globalization, nowadays individuals are more exposed to such an inequality than ever. Recent studies show that exposure to inequality may shape economic decisions. In this article, we test whether contributions in the public goods game are sensitive to information about inequality of personal benefits between ...
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
92 (2021), 101679, 10 S.
| Pablo Brañas-Garza, Elena Molis, Levent Neyse
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Pressemitteilung
Pressemitteilung der Projektgruppe Gemeinschaftsdiagnose: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle, ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München in Kooperation mit der Konjunkturforschungsstelle der ETH Zürich (KOF), Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel (IfW Kiel), ...
14.10.2021
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Pressemitteilung
The Corona pandemic still shapes the economic situation in Germany. A complete normalisation of contact-intensive activities is not to be expected in the short term. In addition, supply bottlenecks are hampering manufacturing for the time being. The German economy will reach normal capacity utilisation in the course of 2022. In their autumn report, the leading economic research institutes ...
14.10.2021
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Veranstaltung
Der Ruf nach härteren Vorschriften seitens der Politik wird deutlich lauter: Im Vorfeld der UN-Klimakonferenz COP26 in Glasgow sollte dies die neue Bundesregierung ermutigen, den klimagerechten Umbau der Wirtschaft erheblich schneller als bisher voranzubringen. Die zentrale Aufgabe der Europäische Investitionsbank dabei ist die Finanzierung von Projekten mit dem Fokus auf saubere...
27.10.2021| Ambroise Fayolle, Christian Schubert, Marcel Fratzscher, Claudia Kemfert, Sabine Fiedler