Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Innovation and Infrastructure

Die Analyse von Paneldaten in der deutschsprachigen empirischen Soziologie

Veränderungen familialer Ressourcen und Fähigkeiten von Kindern

Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP)

Gestaltung/Regulierung der Finanzmärkte

Wind of Change: The Process of Market Integration and Congestion Management

Similarity to Neighborhood: Does It Affect Adolescents¿ Health and Educational Outcomes?

Beschäftigungssituation, Einkommen, Vermögensverteilung: neueste Daten und Analyse zur Vorbereitung auf den 4. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht

Forecasting Scenarios: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Upcoming Years

Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland

Evaluation der Programme GCD und GCD-AL

Sharing the Burden: Empirical Evidence of Corporate Tax Incidence

This study assesses the burden of capital income tax passed onto labor through wage bargaining over economic rents, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover the universe of corporations subject to corporate income tax, and labor market variables reflect the full record of employees covered by Social Security. We find...

Technology-Skill Complementarity and International TFP Differences

What determines whether a country is better at using some technologies than others? A widely held view is that a country's ability to absorb and implement technologies is tied to its human capital. In this paper, we construct a novel specification of technology that incorporates this idea. Countries are comprised of a range of industries with heterogeneous productivities. In high human capital...

Stationarity Changes in Long-Run Fossil Resource Prices: Evidence from Persistence Break Testing

This paper considers the question of whether changes in persistence have occurred during the long-run evolution of U.S. prices of the non-renewable energy resources crude oil, natural gas and bituminous coal. Our main contribution is to allow for a structural break when testing for a break in persistence, thus disentangling the effect of a deterministic break from that of a stochastic break and...

Does Job Loss Make You Smoke and Gain Weight?

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with lower health or socioeconomic...

Health and Conflict in Colombia

Viel für wenige? Wenig für viele? Zur Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland

Frauen in Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten in Deutschland

Frauen an die Spitze: Podiumsdiskussion

Wachstum, Wohlstand und deren Messung