The 15th Workshop of Panel Surveys in German-Speaking Countries, which the SOEP is organizing in partnership with the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), will take place March 30-31, 2023, at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (DIW Berlin). The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss current topics and findings from survey research as well as ...
I quantify the perceived changes in hourly wage rates associated with working different hours on the same job for a representative sample of female workers. While part-time working women expect significant hourly wage gains from switching to full-time work - 7% on average - full-time workers expect no effect on current wages when switching to part-time, on average. Perceived pecuniary losses from part-time ...
The comparative study of housing decommodification lags behind classical welfare state research, while housing research itself is rich in homeownership studies but lacks comparative accounts of private and social rentals due to missing comparative data. Building on existing works and various primary sources, this study presents a new collection of up to forty-eight countries’ social housing shares ...
Nicole Wägner has successfully defended her dissertation "External Effects of Local Pollution and Abatement Policies - Empirical Evidence on the Impacts of Local Pollution Externalities and the Effectiveness of Pollution Abatement Policies" supervised by Christian von Hirschhausen at Technische Universität Berlin. She has since then begun working as scientific research assistant at RWI Essen. Cong ...
Max Diegel has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on Inflation Expectations in Empirical Macroeconomics". He was supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Nautz at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
Tobias König has successfully defended his dissertation "Three Essays on the Role of Financial Frictions in Macroeconomics" supervised by Michael Burda (1st supervisor) and Alexander Kriwoluzky (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt University Berlin. He has now taken up a post-doc position at the University of Bonn. Congratulations!
Björn Fischer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays on pension and Long-Term Care Policy" supervised by Peter Haan (1st supervisor) Freie Universität Berlin. He has since then taken on a position as post-doctoral researcher at the ZEW in Mannheim. Congratulations!
Lukas Boer has successfully defended his dissertation "Essays in International Finance, Energy Economics, and Applied Times Series Econometrics" supervised by Lukas Menkhoff (1st supervisor) and by Michael Burda (2nd supervisor) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Congratulations!
