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Veranstaltung
Is global tax evasion falling or rising? Are new issues emerging, and if so, what are they? Have governments been effective in addressing tax evasion over the past 10 years? What has worked so far and what are some policies for the future?
Gabriel Zucman, founding director of the EU Tax Observatory, and Sarah Godar will present key result from the inaugural Global Tax Evasion Report. The report...
02.11.2023| Gabriel Zucman, Gerhard Schick, Christian Traxler, Charlotte Bartels, Sarah Godar
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DIW Discussion Papers 2053 / 2023
High growth firms (HGFs) are important for job creation and considered to be precursors of economic growth. We investigate how product- and labor-market regulations, as well as the quality of regional governments that implement these regulations, affect HGF development across European regions. Using data from Eurostat, OECD, WEF, and Gothenburg University, we show that both regulatory stringency and ...
2023| Sara Amoroso, Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos
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SOEPpapers 1194 / 2023
This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ well-being and mental health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000-2020). We construct a measure of individual exposure to AI technology based on the occupation in which workers in our sample were first employed and explore an event study design and a difference-in-differences approach to compare AI-exposed ...
2023| Osea Giuntella, Johannes König, Luca Stella
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This study examines how conditional aid eligibility influences students’ application behaviors using extensive data from the French national application platform, Admission Post Bac (APB). Employing a generalized difference-in differences approach, we analyze the impact of an exogenous change in the income threshold for financial aid eligibility. Our primary focus is on high-achieving students, a...
24.10.2023| Clara Schäper
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper evaluates the effects of immigration on health in the workplace. Using rich linked employer-employee data, I demonstrate that firms with a higher concentration of foreign workers experience lower rates of long-term sick leave among native employees. The effect on the total sick rate is smaller in magnitude. The results are consistent with foreign employment alleviating understaffing and...
08.11.2023| Izabela Wnuk-Soares
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Canceled!
22.11.2023| Sebastian Becker
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact of a large daycare expansion in...
06.12.2023| Mara Barschkett
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This research investigates the relationship between perceived economic mobility and populist support, focusing on the US and Germany. Amidst an escalating wave of populism that challenges democratic institutions in the West, it explores whether low upward mobility fuels the perception of exclusion in a system that favors a select 'establishment’. To test a causal relationship, a survey experiment...
13.12.2023| Lorenz Meister
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
While nouns in the German language are gendered toward males, the introduction of the "gender star" or "gender colon"' have allowed for nouns to be interpreted as not assigning gender, or non-binary. Their usage however has become highly politically polarizing. Using over 40 million online job postings from 2016 to 2023, we document the rising prevalence of the gender star and colon in the German...
20.12.2023| Jonas Jessen
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This paper analyzes the effect of exposure to foreign mass media on environmental awareness and pro-environmental behavior. We exploit a natural experiment occurring in the German Democratic Republic, where the reception of West German television was determined by geographic characteristics. Western media was a reliable source of information about environmental pollution in the German Democratic...
24.01.2024| Sven Hartmann, Trier University