Die Alumna des Graduate Centers und Juniorprofessorin an der Universität Bonn, Amelie Schiprowski, erhält den Nachwuchspreis der Joachim Herz Stiftung, der am 19. März 2020 in Hamburg verliehen wird. Mit 25.000 Euro Preisgeld wird ihr Beitrag zur Rolle von Fallmanagern bei der Jobvermittlung von Arbeitslosen geehrt. Amelie schloss 2018 ihre Promotion am Graduate Center des DIW Berlin ...
Die Politik hat die Probleme zwar erkannt, doch sie ist unfähig sie zu lösen. Es braucht globale Regeln für Klima und Handel. Kolumne Dieser Beitrag ist am 24. Januar 2020 im Tagesspiegel erschienen. Das Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos war eine Enttäuschung. Selten lagen zwar die globalen Probleme so klar auf der Hand, selten haben aber auch Politik und Wirtschaft mögliche ...
This paper studies self-control in a nationally representative sample. Using the wellestablished Tangney scale to measure trait self-control, we find that people’s age as well as the political and economic institutions they are exposed to have an economically meaningful impact on their level of self-control. A higher degree of self-control is, in turn, associated...
Unfortunately the event is canceled. As soon as a new date is fixed, it will be announced here on the website. BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
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The share of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany has increased somewhat more strongly than in previous years. The top 200 companies reached the ten percent mark for the first time: women held 14 more board positions than in the previous year, 94 out of 907. Growth was also somewhat more dynamic on the executive boards of the largest listed companies and companies with government- ...
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women into full-time employment. ...
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees and female irregular migrants are ...
