Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Bank Market Structures and Macroeconomic Stability: Are Low-Income Countries Special?

Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

German social security records show that intra-generational lifetime earnings inequality is about two-thirds of the corresponding inequality of annual earnings. Within cohorts, mobility in the distribution of yearly earnings is substantial at the beginning of the life cycle, decreases afterwards and virtually vanishes after age forty. We detect a striking secular rise of intra-generational...

Wealth Distribution within Couples and Financial Decision Making

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).In married and cohabiting couples, men have, on average, 33,000 Euro more net worth than women. We look at five different sets of factors ...

Wo(men) at Work? The Impact of Cohabiting and Married Partners' Earnings on Women's Work Hours

This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions and respond differently to changes in their partners' wages. In addition, this study seeks to connect the...

A Documentation Initiative of the Syrian Conflict: A Pilot Study

Does Euro Area Membership Affect the Relation between GDP Growth and Public Debt?

Is Technical Progress Sectorally Concentrated? An Empirical Analysis for Western European Countries

Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon countries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist approach, in order to separate technical change. Applying Harberger diagrams, we describe the sectoral...

Measuring and Decomposing the Productivity Impact of Mergers in the Japanese Water Industry

Credit Constraints, Occupational Choice, and the Process of Development: Long Run Evidence from Cash Transfers in Uganda

A Theory of Sovereign Risk Premia and Financial Intermediation in the Euro Area

Labor Supply Estimation with Endogenous Rationing: An Application to the Federal Minimum Wage in Germany

Kampf um Strom: Mythen, Macht und Monopole

30 Waves of Participation: The Most Loyal Panel Members

Migrant In-work Poverty: How Much Does Discrimination Explain?

Household Survey Data for Research on Wellbeing

Cognitive and Affective Sources of Interviewer Effects in Face-to-Face Surveys

The Use of Behavior Coding to Analyze Data Quality in the SOEP Establishment Survey 2012

Use of Cognitive Measures and the Day Reconstruction Method in Face-to-Face-Interviews in the German Socio-Economic Panel

Total Survey Error in Web and Mail Interviews among the Elderly

To Link or to Match? Comparing Two Methods of Combining Survey Data with Administrative Records