Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Women's Marital Trajectories and the Accumulation of Pension Rights in Germany and the U.S.

Employment-centered pension schemes favor continuous employment careers with (above) average earnings. Typically, men benefit from this pension design, whereas women with different lifecycle work and family choices are structurally disadvantaged. In the past, low pension rights accrued by women were no reason for concern, because they were assumed to share resources with their husband. Increased...

Maternal Labor Market Return, Parental Leave Policies, and Gender Inequality in Housework

This study investigates how the duration of mothers' employment interruption and their work hours upon return affect the division of domestic work in German and British couples after a birth. The analysis uses fixed-effects models after a first or second birth based on couple data from the British Household Panel Study (1991-2008) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (1985-2009). Parental leave...

Zur Entwicklung der Altersarmut in Deutschland

Investigating a CO2 Tax and a Nuclear Phase out with a Multi-fuel Market Equilibrium Model

The Euro Area Debt Crisis and Strategies for Solution

A FPP Model for Brunei-Darussalam

German Energy Transformation and the Role of European Energy Policy

Investigating a CO2 Tax and a Nuclear Phase out with a Multi-fuel Market Equilibrium Model

Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

A New Model for Analyzing Renewable Energy Integration in Germany

Geschlechtssegregation und Gender Pay Gap in Führungspositionen: welche Rolle spielt die Unternehmensgröße?

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? Gender, Personality and Entrepreneurial Status

Ökonomischer Strukturwandel und Polarisierungstendenzen in Stadtregionen: der Fall Berlin

Futures Premium Regressions and a Latent Factor Day by Day

Trade Persistence and the Limits of Trade Agreements

The trade creating effect of trade agreements reveals a high level of heterogeneity.This paper is concerned with network structures as drivers of this difference in the magnitude. Linking export networks with per-capita income levels, it is claimed that more developed countries are associated with smaller increases in bilateral trade flows if an agreement is present, compared to lower-income...

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy

Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market: How to Check Sign Restrictions in Structural VARs

Given the growing dissatisfaction with exclusion and long-run restrictions in structural vector autoregressive analysis, sign restrictions are becoming increasingly popular. So far there are no techniques for validating the shocks identified via such restrictions. Although in an ideal setting the sign restrictions specify shocks of interest, sign restrictions may be invalidated by measurement...

Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Innovation and Markets

Intermediate Merger Incentives in a Three-Tier Industry Structure

Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development