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DIW Discussion Papers 1062 / 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising resentments of the 'cheap' workers and those laid off. The main contributor to its ascension is international trade ...
2010| Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Jingzhou Meng
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DIW Discussion Papers 1055 / 2010
In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search. Hence, job search theory suggests that individuals with larger networks use informal search channels ...
2010| Marco Caliendo, Ricarda Schmidl, Arne Uhlendorff
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DIW Discussion Papers 1044 / 2010
Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The model accounts for short and long term effects as well as general differences between those who intermarry ...
2010| Olga Nottmeyer
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DIW Discussion Papers 1043 / 2010
We provide laboratory evidence that people neglect skewness resulting from compound shocks.
2010| Ludwig Ensthaler, Olga Nottmeyer, Georg Weizsäcker
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DIW Discussion Papers 1037 / 2010
The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the loose relationship between own earnings and household income. Following the procedure first used by Hupfeld (2010), we analyze a large data set from the German ...
2010| Friedrich Breyer, Jan Marcus
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DIW Discussion Papers 1030 / 2010
Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) with superior theoretical properties. However, the empirical applicability and robust-ness of the Boone-Indicator is still unknown. This paper aims to address that question. Using a rich, newly built, data set for German manufacturing enterprises, we test the empirical valid-ity of the Boone-Indicator using ...
2010| Alexander Schiersch, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke
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DIW Discussion Papers 999 / 2010
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and non-white men "stretch" their time the least. The three secondary activities that are most often combined ...
2010| Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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DIW Discussion Papers 979 / 2010
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his or her search effort on the rate at which job offers arrive. These beliefs depend in part on an individual's ...
2010| Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Arne Uhlendorff
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DIW Discussion Papers 969 / 2010
In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's expectation about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. Recent experimental studies as well as surveys have asked participants to state their beliefs explicitly, but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and other behavioral variables. This paper discusses the possibility of creating exogenous ...
2010| Miguel A. Costa-Gomes, Steffen Huck, Georg Weizsäcker
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DIW Discussion Papers 964 / 2009
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as well as language abilities, ethnic identification and religious distribution. A special feature of the available ...
2009| Amelie F. Constant, Olga Nottmeyer, Klaus F. Zimmermann