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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
Häufig wird behauptet, Klimaschutz koste Wirtschaftswachstum, da Jobs verloren gehen und Unternehmensgewinne sinken. Aber diese Kritik ist nicht gerechtfertigt. Kolumne
Dieser Beitrag ist am 22. November 2019 der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen erschienen. Hier finden Sie alle Beiträge von Marcel Fratzscher. Ist das Klimaschutzpaket der Bundesregierung tatsächlich ...
25.11.2019| Marcel Fratzscher
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Occupational positions can explain an important part of the differences in pay between men and women. However, a considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reason for the gap within occupational positions and, therefore, investigate whether promotions lead to the same effect on earnings growth for men and women....
27.11.2019| Aline Zucco
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DIW Discussion Papers 1831 / 2019
Structural VAR models require two ingredients: (i) Informational sufficiency, and (ii) a valid identification strategy. These conditions are unlikely to be met by small-scale recursively identified VAR models. I propose a Bayesian Proxy Factor-Augmented VAR (BP-FAVAR) to combine a large information set with an identification scheme based on an external instrument. In an application to monetary policy ...
2019| Martin Bruns
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SOEPpapers 1060 / 2019
Providing equal opportunities to all members of society independent of an individual’s socio-economic background is a major objective of German policy makers. However, evidence on the access to education suggests that opportunities of children with a non-academic family background are still unequally obstructed. When analysing the labour market implications of this social disadvantage in human capital, ...
2019| Valentina S. Consiglio, Denisa M. Sologon
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SOEPpapers 1061 / 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze what role individual characteristics of entrepreneurs play in sustainable job creation. ...
2019| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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DIW Discussion Papers 1832 / 2019
This paper studies market segmentation that arises from the introduction of a price ceiling in the market for rental housing. When part of the market faces rent control, theory predicts an increase of free-market rents, a consequence of misallocation of households to housing units. We study a large-scale policy intervention in the German housing market in 2015 to document this mechanism empirically. ...
2019| Andreas Mense, Claus Michelsen, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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SOEPpapers 1058 / 2019
We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change across the EU. In addition, we identify potential explanations for the observed cross-country variation. ...
2019| Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara, Christina Vonnahme
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SOEPpapers 1059 / 2019
This article investigates the effects of an increase in paid parental leave — twelve months instead of six months — on children’s long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), allows us to circumvent problems of selection of women into the labor market and an insufficient or heterogeneous non-parental child care supply, which are ...
2019| Katharina Heisig, Larissa Zierow
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Berlin Lunchtime Meeting
Sarah Perret, OECD, will present findings from a recent report on The Role and Design of Net Wealth Taxes in the OECD. The presentation will give an overview of the cases for and against net wealth taxes, as well as describe how wealth taxes have been designed in practice in the OECD countries that currently have or historically had net wealth taxes. Inheritance taxes, which constitute an...
28.11.2019| Sarah Perret, Stefan Bach
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DIW Discussion Papers 1833 / 2019
This paper analyzes nuclear power plant investments using Monte Carlo simulations of economic indicators such as net present value (NPV) and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). In times of liberalized electricity markets, largescale decarbonization and climate change considerations, this topic is gaining momentum and requires fundamental analysis of cost drivers. We adopt the private investors’ perspective ...
2019| Ben Wealer, Simon Bauer, Leonard Göke, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert