Social media has emerged as a pivotal platform for accessing news content today. While there appears to be a connection between news consumption on social media platforms and perceived knowledge of public affairs, little is known about the potential effect on specific issues like artificial intelligence (AI). To extend findings on people’s perceived knowledge of AI, how it relates to social media news ...
Was können Forscher*innen machen, wenn sie ein Thema erforschen wollen, zu dem es keine Daten aus Deutschland gibt? Antwort: Sie nehmen Daten aus anderen Ländern. Denn die Forschungsdateninfrastruktur ist in etlichen anderen Ländern besser als bei uns. Am DIW Berlin beschäftigen sich verschiedene Wissenschaftler*innen mit Fragestellungen, für die deutsche Daten fehlen. Wir betrachten drei Themen für ...
With Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Jan Nimczik and Lennert Peede In times of an increasing scarcity of workers, Germany has in a rare move decreased the retirement age for a sizeable group of the workforce. This paper investigates the effect of this negative labor supply shock on firm and individual level outcomes using the universe of firms in the IEB as well as matched employer-employee data from...
Gemeinsame Arbeit mit: Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Jan Nimczik and Lennert Peede Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: "Firm Adjustment to a Policy-Induced Negative Labor Supply Shock: Evidence from Germany". Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt.Eine kurze Zusammenfassung zum Vortrag ist nur auf der englischen Veranstaltungsseite verfügbar!
We study how labor demand shocks affect workforce diversity in the absence of targeted diversity policies. Exploiting German reunification as a natural experiment, we analyze the academic labor market where nearly all social sciences professors in East Germany were replaced while STEM faculty remained largely unchanged. Using administrative data and a regional difference-in-differences design, we...
Recent years have seen a growing number of studies investigating the accuracy of nonprobability online panels; however, response quality in nonprobability online panels has not yet received much attention. To fill this gap, we investigate response quality in a comprehensive study of seven nonprobability online panels and three probability-based online panels with identical fieldwork periods and questionnaires ...
