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Maximilian Bach wins BeNA Innovation Research Award 2018

Maximilian Bach, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate at the Education and Family Department, has received the BeNA Innovation Research Award 2018. The prize was awarded for his current paper "Teacher Incentives and Grade Retention" at this year's  BeNA Labor Economics Workshop on May 14. The GC congratulates Max on his success!

Maximilian Bach wins BeNA Innovation Research Award 2018

Maximilian Bach, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate at the Education and Family Department, has received the BeNA Innovation Research Award 2018. The prize was awarded for his current paper "Teacher Incentives and Grade Retention" at this year's  BeNA Labor Economics Workshop on May 14. The GC congratulates Max on his success!

Für eine kluge Entlastung von Unternehmen

Dieser Beitrag ist am 22. Mai in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Mit einer großen Steuerreform will US-Präsident Donald Trump amerikanische Unternehmen entlasten. Auch andere Partnerländer Deutschlands wie Frankreich und Belgien sind dabei, die Steuersätze für Unternehmen zu senken. Vor diesem Hintergrund erheben ...

Presenting the new EU Platform: "Coal Regions in Transition" – enabling a `just and fast transition` in Germany and Europe

The European Commission launched the 'Coal Regions in Transition Platform' on Dec 11th, 2017 in Strasbourg. This initiative shall support transformation projects and provide a high level policy dialogue on coal. In a next step several pilot regions were chosen, including also Lusatia´s coal region. This BSEC shall give the opportunity to discuss future steps needed on the European, German...

Jonas Jessen Receives a Grant from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Jonas Jessen, from the Education and Family department, has been granted a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from June 2018 on. The Dean of the Graduate Center, Prof. Weizsäcker congratulates him on his success!

Jonas Jessen Receives a Grant from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Jonas Jessen, from the Education and Family department, has been granted a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from June 2018 on. The Dean of the Graduate Center, Prof. Weizsäcker congratulates him on his success!

Outcomes of Unemployment Episodes during Early Career for Mismatched Workers in the United Kingdom and Germany and the Mediating Effects of Education and Institutions

Our research challenges the traditional view that unemployment is an unequivocal negative event in working life. We argue that depending on workers’ educational attainment and on national-specific institutional settings unemployment might have different implications on young workers who begin their employment careers in low occupational positions. The strongly skill-based and rigid labour market in ...

The Effect of Pension Reforms on Old-Age Income Inequality

Many OECD countries are raising the normal retirement age (NRA), thereby, making early retirement more costly. Whereas such reforms incentivize individuals to work longer, labor market frictions might partly undermine intended behavioral responses. Employing administrative data of West German men, I estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of work, unemployment and retirement allowing for labor market ...

Infobroschüre: Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft

The Prosociality of Intuitive Decisions Depends on the Status Quo

Previous research came to contradictory conclusion about the prosocial nature of intuitive decisions, as compared to deliberate decisions. This paper proposes the prosociality of the status quo allocation as a determinant of the prosociality of intuitive decisions. I present results from two experiments (N = 1,649) that manipulate time pressure and elicit response times in a binary dictator game. One ...