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Nach dem Brexit kommt die Übergangsphase: Deutsche Wirtschaft leidet weiter unter Unsicherheit

Ende Januar tritt das Vereinigte Königreich endgültig aus der Europäischen Union aus. Beendet ist das Brexit-Drama damit aber noch nicht: Es beginnt eine elfmonatige Übergangsphase, in der Großbritannien weiterhin an EU-Regeln zum Binnenmarkt gebunden ist. Währenddessen sollen die künftigen Handelsmodalitäten vereinbart und in einem Abkommen festgeschrieben werden. Ob das gelingt, ist fraglich. Sollte ...

Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of extended leave durations. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German parental leave reform replaced a means-tested ...

Der Mietendeckel ist ein süßes Gift mit bitteren Nebenwirkungen

Das Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus hat heute den Mietendeckel beschlossen. Dieser sieht vor, die Mieten für fünf Jahre auf dem Niveau von Mitte des Jahres 2019 einzufrieren. Den Mietendeckel kommentiert Immobilienökonom und DIW-Konjunkturchef Claus Michelsen:

A Short Qualitative Exploration of the Reporting and Use of Non-Financial Data in the Context of the Fitness Check of the EU Framework for Public Reporting by Companies

Prosociality and Risk Preferences in the Financial Sector

Using large-scale data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds that financial professionals have a lower prosociality and riskier behavior than a control group. I interpret these findings using the person-organization fit theory, and thus, the compatibility between the employee's personality and the prevailing culture in their organization....

Identifying Robust Correlates of Risk Preference: A Systematic Approach Using Specification Curve Analysis

People’s risk preferences are thought to be central to many consequential real-life decisions, making it important to identify robust correlates of this construct. Various psychological theories have put forth a series of candidate correlates, yet the strength and robustness of their associations remain unclear because of disparate operationalizations of risk preference and analytic limitations in ...

Thüringen-Krise ist auch aus wirtschaftlicher Sicht ein Debakel

Alexander S. Kritikos, Forschungsdirektor am DIW Berlin, äußert sich zu den Folgen der Krise in Thüringen:

Who is Thinking of Leaving Germany? The Role of Postmaterialism, Risk Attitudes, and Life-Satisfaction on Emigration Intentions of German Nationals

The subject of emigration from affluent countries, such as Germany, raises the question of who are more likely to leave their highly-industrialized countries known for high living standards, stable political scene and prosperous economy. Using the theory of postmaterialism (Inglehart, 1997) this paper explores emigration intentions of German nationals taking into account country’s specific socio-economic ...

Inferring Floor Area Ratio Thresholds for the Delineation of City Centers Based on Cognitive Perception

The morphology of today’s cities is the result of historic urban developments and ongoing urban transformation resulting in complex urban spatial structures. While functionally as well as spatially, cities are structured into sub-units such as the city center, business districts, residential areas or industrial and commercial zones, their precise localization in the geographic space is sometimes difficult. ...

The Impact of Having Children on Domain-Specific Life Satisfaction: A Quasi-Experimental Longitudinal Investigation Using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Data

Longitudinal studies have documented improvements in parents’ life satisfaction due to childbearing, followed by postpartum adaptation back to baseline. However, the details underlying this process remain largely unexplored. Based on past literature, set-point theory, and results from an exploratory sample, we investigated empirically how first childbirth affected satisfaction with specific domains ...