Peter Krause
Bangkok, Thailand,
08.12.2010
- 11.12.2010| Understanding Quality of Life and Building a Happier Tomorrow: 10th Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS)
Markus M. Grabka
Paris, Frankreich,
07.12.2010
| Die deutsche Wirtschaft nach der Krise: welche Gouvernance für den Euro?: Jahreskonferenz des Studienkomitees für deutsch-französische Beziehungen (Cerfa), in Zusammenarbeit mit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) und dem Centre d¿information et de recherche sur l¿Allemagne contemporaine (CIRAC)
Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict which influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behaviour on labour markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants by a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self-employment, we employ fixed effects estimation....
Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Nina Wald
Bogotá, Kolumbien,
02.12.2010
- 03.12.2010| Sixth Households in Conflict Network Workshop
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used in this field of research. We investigate existing methodologies and data-bases used to operationalize...
Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Alexandra Avdeenko
Bogotá, Kolumbien,
02.12.2010
- 03.12.2010| Sixth Households in Conflict Network Workshop
We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the observed car prices can serve as a reasonably good proxy for income levels. In contrast to the traditional...
Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Boriss Siliverstovs
Leuven, Belgien,
02.12.2010
- 03.12.2010| International Workshop on Recent Issues in Economic Geography
Heike Belitz
Berlin,
02.12.2010
| Innovationsfinanzierung in KMU - Stand / Hemmnisse / Perspektiven: Symposium der Bundestagsfraktion der FDP und des Verbandes innovativer Unternernehmen
In 1999, in Germany, the statutory sick pay level was increased from 80 to 100 percent of foregone earnings for sickness episodes of up to six weeks. We show that this reform has led to an increase in average absence days of about 10 percent or one additional day per employee, per year. The estimates are based on SOEP survey data and parametric, nonparametric, and combined matching-regression...
Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Martin Karlsson
Tilburg, Niederlande,
01.12.2010
| Econometrics and Statistics Seminars of the CentER for Economic Research
Markus M. Grabka
Berlin,
30.11.2010
| Kinderarmut in Deutschland und Europa. Wo stehen wir am Ende des Europäischen Jahres zur Bekämpfung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung?: Veranstaltung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschen Familienorganisationen e.V. (AGF) in Kooperation mit der Vertretung der Europäischen Kommission in Deutschland
Heike Belitz
Berlin,
29.11.2010
| Wachstumspotenziale innovativer Unternehmen: Kongress des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie und des Verbandes Innovativer Unternehmen e.V. (VIU)