Tobias Heidland hat einen Ruf auf eine W3-Professur für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere International Macroeconomics, an der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, verbunden mit einer Abteilungsleitung am Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, angenommen. Er wird zum 1. Oktober 2020 diese Professur antreten und deshalb auch als ...
This study seeks to examine the implications of student employment for the studies, the entry into the labour market, and social inequalities in higher education. The main argument is that both the quantity and quality of work alongside studies can affect relevant academic and labour market outcomes. On the one hand, high amounts of work may prolong the studies and decrease academic achievement. Side-jobs ...
Ulrike Ehrlich of the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), Lara Minkus and Moritz Hess of SOCIUM, Bremen, received the Best Paper Award 2020 for young researchers from the German Society for Demography in April 2020. The paper, entitled “Einkommensrisiko Pflege? Der Zusammenhang von familiärer Pflege und Lohn” (“The care-wage penalty: the association between family care and ...
For data users of SOEP-Core, the SOEP provides assistance in two analysis programs. One is a stata.ado and the other - new one - an R package.The application simply has to be installed in the respective program and helpful information on the desired data sets or variables can be provided. More information in our SOEPcompanion. If you have questions or remarks, please contact Hans Walter Steinhauer ...
Für Datennutzerinnen und Datennutzer von SOEP-Core bietet das SOEP Unterstützung für zwei Analyseprogramme an. Das eine ist ein stata.ado und das andere - neue - ein R-Paket. Die Anwendung muss lediglich in das jeweilige Programm installiert werden und es können hilfreiche Informationen zu den gewünschten Datensätzen oder Variablen bereitgestellt werden. Weitere Informationen ...
As COVID-19 spreads worldwide, governments have been implementing a wide range of measures to contain it, from movement restrictions to economy-wide shutdowns. Understanding their impacts is essential to support better policies for countries still experiencing outbreaks or in case of emergence of subsequent pandemic waves. Here we show that the cumulative decline in electricity consumption within the ...
In current power markets, the bulk of electricity is sold wholesale and transported to consumers via long-distance transmission lines. Recently, decentralized local power markets have evolved, often as isolated networks based on solar generation. We analyze strategic pricing, investment, and welfare in local power markets. We show that local power markets with peer-to-peer trading are competitive and ...
This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract: High and growing prescription drug costs in the United States are a major concern for policy makers. This paper focuses on the extent to which promotional gifts and other transfers made to physicians by pharmaceutical companies cause physicians to prescribe more...
