Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass-Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed-Effects Model

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this inequality on earnings levels and gender wage...

Occupational Gender Composition and Workplace Integration: What Role Do Gendered Work Contents Play?

Immigrant Occupational Composition and the Earnings of Immigrants and Natives in Germany

Eurorettung, Staatsverschuldung und Ratingagenturen

Spite and Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children¿s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited...

Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect

Erfahrungen der Wiedervereinigung in Deutschland: Vortrag und Diskussion

Wissenschaftliche Stellungnahme

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

The Impact of Unions on the Patterns of In-work Poverty: Evidences from a Comparative Hierarchical Analysis of European Countries

Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data: An Application to Wealth Inequality Analyses

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this paper are: First, to elaborate a...

Money Demand and the Role of Monetary Indicators in Forecasting Euro Area Inflation

This paper examines the forecasting performance of a broad monetary aggregate (M3) in predicting euro area inflation. Excess liquidity is measured as the difference between the actual money stock and its fundamental value, the latter determined by a money demand function. The out-of sample forecasting performance is compared to widely used alternatives, such as the term structure of interest rates...

Regionalentwicklung und Ausgleichsmechanismen in den USA und im Euroraum

Migrant-Specific Labour Market Segregation and the Earnings of Immigrants and Natives in Germany

Estimating Effects of Macro- and Micro Variables on Individual Characteristics in a Cross-Country Framework: RE- and FE-Techniques under Review

Imputation of Missing Disposable Household Income in the SOEP Dataset

Short Assessment of the Big Five: Robust across Survey Methods Except Telephone Interviewing

Nonresponse when Linking Survey Data with Administrative Data

Personality Traits and Interviewer Effects in Face-to-Face Surveys

Sampling of Ethnic Germans (Spät-Aussiedler): The Quality of Data Drawn Using Onomastic Methods Based on Telephone Registry Information