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  • February 20, 2023

    Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    What Do Insurers Do Differently Than One Another? Managed Competition and Value Added

    Speaker: Jonathan Kolstad (UC Berkeley)
    Location: Elinor Ostrom Hall
    DIW Berlin
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 2 pm - 3.15 pm

    The Berlin School of Economics Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS) is a weekly research seminar, focused on labor economics, industrial organization, political economy and related areas in applied microeconomics. It is jointly organized by DIW Berlin, Hertie School, HU Berlin, FU Berlin, TU Berlin, WZB, ESMT Berlin, University of Potsdam, European University Viadrina, BCCP and SFB TRR 190. BAMS is one of ...

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  • February 15, 2023

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Do Business Tax Rates Affect Real Investment?

    Speaker: Charlotte Bartels
    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Policymakers widely use tax-based incentives to spur investment and stimulate economic growth. Tax policy has been at the center of emergency measures during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is now as countries face a significant deterioration in public finances. Yet, empirical tax research is still in disagreement on how taxes affect business investment. We investigate the effect of local business ...

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  • January 18, 2023

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Local Unemployment and Postsecondary Education

    Speaker: Andreas Leibing
    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This study uses administrative data on the universe of students in tertiary education in Germany and shows that university enrollment depends negatively on the local unemployment rate at high school graduation. This finding contradicts common evidence on countercyclical US undergraduate enrollment. Students' financial dependency and loan aversion suggest reduced parental income as dominant ...

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  • January 17, 2023

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Restrictions to Civil Liberties in a Pandemic and Satisfaction with Democracy

    Speaker: Lorenz Meister
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Unexpected crises, such as armed conflicts, natural disasters and pandemics require immediate government decisions on how to act to protect the population. The COVID-19 pandemic was the worst sudden onset global crisis since the Second World War, and highlighted tension between civil liberties and public health objectives. How did attitudes towards democracy respond to restrictive policy ...

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  • January 4, 2023

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Wohnsitzauflage: An opportunity for integration? The Impact of Residential Obligation Policy on Refugee Women’s Labor Market Participation

    Speaker: Aslıhan Yurdakul (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Yuliya Kosyakova (Institute for Employment Research - IAB), Adriana Cardozo Silva
    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: POSTPONED

    *************POSTPONED*****************To promote integration, the German government enacted the Residential Obligation Act (Wohnsitzauflage) in 2016, which obliges refugees to maintain their residence in the states to which they have been assigned for a period of three years from the time they are granted asylum or temporary residence. Studies addressing this policy have found controversial ...

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  • December 7, 2022

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Subjective belief formation and stock market participation in Germany

    Speaker: Sebastian Becker
    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This paper exploits unique variation induced by two information treatments on a sample of German households in 2017 and 2018 to evaluate how subjective belief formation about stock market returns affects stock market participation and portfolio choice. I find that on average the information treatments do not shift individual expectations about returns significantly. Additionally, I show that ...

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  • November 24, 2022

    Workshop

    CRC Workshop: Expectations and Behavior

    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 09:00-13:00

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  • November 23, 2022

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Long Run Impact of Expulsion of Germans (1944-1950) on Anti-Refugee Voting

    Speaker: Li Yang
    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    The political consequences of refugees for receiving countries have received much attention in recent years and have sparked a burgeoning literature. However, evidence on the long-run consequences of refugees is lacking. The expulsion of 8 million Germans (so-called expellees) from Eastern Europe to post-WWII West Germany serves as a natural experiment that allows us to estimate the long-run ...

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  • November 9, 2022

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Survivor benefits and conjugal behavior. Evidence from the Netherlands

    Speaker: Julie Tréguier
    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

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  • November 7, 2022

    Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    The Distributuional Impact of Real-Time Pricing

    Speaker: Mar Reguant (Northwestern University)
    Location: Elinor Ostrom Hall
    DIW Berlin
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 2 pm - 3.15 pm

    The Berlin School of Economics Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS) is a weekly research seminar, focused on labor economics, industrial organization, political economy and related areas in applied microeconomics. It is jointly organized by DIW Berlin, Hertie School, HU Berlin, FU Berlin, TU Berlin, WZB, ESMT Berlin, University of Potsdam, European University Viadrina, BCCP and SFB TRR 190. BAMS is one of ...

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  • October 26, 2022

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth: A decomposition of the part-time penalty

    Speaker: Boryana Ilieva
    Location: Ferdinand Friedensburg Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.001
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    The part-time wage penalty is a key contributor to the gender wage gap. In this paper, I study how the part-time penalty decomposes in a lack of promotions to higher paying levels of the career ladder and a lack of wage growth conditional on the career level. I develop a dynamic model of labor supply that distinctly features hierarchical wage structures and promotions. I estimate the ...

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  • June 15, 2022

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    A decomposition of the life-cycle part-time wage gap: Forgone promotion prospects and stagnant wage growth within job levels

    Speaker: Boryana Ilieva
    Location: Karl Popper Room
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.020
    Mohrenstr. 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Long periods of part-time work lead to a stagnation of wage growth. In this paper, I study how the wage stagnation decomposes in lack of career development and the lack of wage growth conditional on the career level. I develop a dynamic choice model of labor supply which distinctly incorporates vertical career moves to jobs paying higher wages as a function of the choice of hours of work. I ...

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  • February 2, 2022

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Effects of Shortening Potential Benefit Duration: Evidence from Regional Cut-offs and a Policy Reform

    Speaker: Jonas Jessen
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 14:00-15:00

    We quantify labour market effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in Poland. Individual workers' PBD depends on the county unemployment rate relative to the national average---12 months of PBD above a cut-off of 125 per cent and 6 months below. This cut-off shifted from 125 to 150 per cent in a 2009 reform. We utilize (i) the natural experiment of the reform and (ii) the ...

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  • December 9, 2021

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Women's managerial representation and the gender pay gap

    Speaker: Virginia Sondergeld
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    This paper analyzes the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among subordinates on the establishment level using German Linked-Employer-Employee-Data. For identification of a causal effect we employ two estimation strategies: 1) a panel model with establishment fixed effects and 2) an event study estimation around a discrete shift in managerial representation. We find ...

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  • November 25, 2021

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Increasing employment and family care? A structural analysis of pension and long-term care policy reforms

    Speaker: Björn Fischer
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    We develop a comprehensive life-cycle model of elder parent care and work to evaluate options that address pressing conflicts between pension and long-term care (LTC) policies. Many OECD countries react to challenges of demographic change by increasing LTC by family members (informal care) and raising retirement ages. This intensifies conflicts between paid employment and informal care provision. ...

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  • July 21, 2021

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The dynamics of informal and formal care supply to parents - a structural model

    Speaker: Björn Fischer
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    In this paper, we estimate a structural dynamic discrete choice model of informal as well as formal care provision, retirement and labor supply. The model allows to assess the dynamic consequences of providing informal care or organizing formal care for parents, e.g., due to reduced wages, pension benefits, or benefits from long-term care insurance. Further, it allows to analyze counterfactual ...

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  • July 6, 2021

    Berlin Lunchtime Meeting

    Taxing inheritances – a way to raise revenues and curb wealth inequality?

    Speaker: Bethany Millar-Powell, Sarah Perret, Roland Franke, Matthias Rumpf, Stefan Bach
    Location: ONLINE via Zoom
    Time: 11.00 – 12.30 CEST

    In Germany, 200 to 400 billion euros are inherited or donated every year. Inheritances are unevenly distributed, with wealthy households receiving far greater inheritances than poor households, and inheritances and gifts are taxed only lightly compared with earned income. As inequalities are increasing, particularly since the onset of the COVID crisis, and governments are under pressure to find ...

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  • June 23, 2021

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Parental Leave and Discrimination on the Labor Market

    Speaker: Katharina Wrohlich
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

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  • May 28, 2021

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Social Mobility and Economic Development

    Speaker: Guido Neidhöfer, ZEW
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 13:15 - 14:30

    We explore the role of social mobility as driver of economic development. First, we draw the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the aggregate participation of cohorts to the economy in every year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic ...

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  • May 12, 2021

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Intergenerational Effects of Grandparental Care on Children and Parents

    Speaker: Elena Ziege
    Location: Online seminar via Cisco Webex
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature. We investigate the potential impact of grandparental care on children's ...

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