Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Family Pension Benefits and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Germany

Child-raising pension benefits in Germany are designed as a compensation for maternal employment interruptions due to child-birth. In comparison to most other family benefits, child-raising pension benefits are accumulated upon child birth but become effective only on the verge of retirement. Hence, the extent to which child-raising pension benefits are determinants of the maternal employment...

Energie- und Industriepolitik: Rondtable

Impulse für die Zukunft: Themen der Sozialinitiative zur Diskussion gestellt: Impulsreferat zum Thema Generationengerechtigkeit

The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Antidiabetics

Sample Selection and Quantile Regression: An Application to Wages in Germany

The Freedom of Others: On Behavioral Responses to a "General Amnesty" in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Is It the Family or the Neighborhood? A Comparison of Family and Neighborhood Effects in Youth Education and Health

The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well-being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase-out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition...

The Short-Run Costs of Moving: Internal Migration and Consumption Growth in Indonesia

Adverse Effects of Increased Education Efficiency? The Impact of Shortening High School Tenure on Grade Repetitions

Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Child Health: Evidence from Mongolia

Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility

We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based . - on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate whether Locus of Control . - influences the probability of being higher-paid or low-paid as well as...

Social Norms or Income Taxation - What Drives Couple's Labor Supply? Experimental Evidence

Is There an Added Worker Effect in Germany? Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss

Investitionen in den frühkindlichen Bereich zahlen sich aus: warum hier mehr zu tun ist, und wie es funktionieren kann

Besteht die EU die Herausforderungen einer globalen Wirtschaft?

Financing Patterns of Innovative SMEs and the Perception of Innovation Barriers in Germany

R&D Behavior of German Manufacturing Companies during the 2008/09 Recession