Die DIW-ExpertInnen Nicolas Legewie und Sandra Bohmann erklären in dieser Ausgabe des DIW-Videoblogs „Nachgeforscht“, wie sich die soziale Mobilität in Deutschland seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg entwickelt hat. Hierbei werden verschiedene Alterskohorten betrachtet, die Aufstiegschancen in Abhängigkeit des Berufsstatus der Eltern untersucht und festgestellt, dass sich die Auf...
Zum BIP-Wachstum der deutschen Wirtschaft im ersten Quartal meint Ferdinand Fichtner, Leiter der Abteilung Konjunkturpolitik am DIW Berlin:
This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an instrumental variable. Using panel data, we run two-stage least squares regressions controlling for individual-specific ...
We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to show that introducing a high-impact statutory minimum wage causes an increase in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are comparable in their magnitude. Additional results show that German citizens adjust their reservation wages more ...
To analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany in 2015 is used as a quasi-experiment. Based on the representative SOEP data, a difference-in-differences design compares the development of life, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those who already have marginally higher wages ...
The choice for a field of study has large consequences on later labor market outcomes. However, in absence of liberal arts and sciences bachelors, field of study choice is often made quite early: either in secondary school or at the start of university. A growing literature shows that information about (direct or indirect through exposure) affects students’ field of study choices. We...
In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged households, do not use day care. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Families in Germany survey (FiD), the present study is one of the first ...
