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  • July 11, 2012

    Seminar

    Shaping Right-Wing Extremist Preferences: An Intergenerational Approach
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Alexandra Avdeenko
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Are parents' attitudes towards extreme parties and immigration decisive for their children's attitudes later in life? This paper studies the magnitude of an intergenerational transmission in right-wing extremist attitudes and concerns about immigration to Germany. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the estimates suggest that the strongest and most important ...

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  • July 4, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables

    Speaker: Johanna Storck, Ronny Freier
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality middle school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German socio-economic household panel in which we observe children when they make their secondary school decisions (in the age between 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further educational pathway (in ...

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  • July 4, 2012

    Seminar

    Wage Discrimination Over the Business Cycle
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas)
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by negative shocks; the wage disadvantage of African-Americans drops with negative shocks, which have ...

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  • June 20, 2012

    Seminar

    The effect of public sector employment on wage distribution compression: An analysis of the German private-public wage gap 1984 to 2010
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Miriam Reuschel (Universität Potsdam)
    Location: Freie Universität Berlin
    Raum 315
    Garystr. 20
    14195 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.30 pm

    Abstract: The tasks of the public sector as an employer in a welfare state are twofold. First, the public sector has to provide services, which are regarded as indispensable for society. Here, the public sector competes for qualified staff with the private sector. In order to attract qualified personnel the public sector competes with a package, often comprised off lower remuneration accompanied ...

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  • June 13, 2012

    Seminar

    Sorting of Skill over Time: Evidence from Sweden 1986-2008?
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Erik Lindqvist (SSE) (with Christina Håkanson and Jonas Vlachos)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.00 - 7.30 pm

    Abstract: A theoretical literature argues that technological change and globalization increase the sorting of workers by skill to firms. However, empirical studies on sorting have been constrained by a lack of measures of skill that are comparable over time. In this paper, we match information on cognitive and non-cognitive skills from the military enlistment for 25 cohorts of Swedish men ...

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  • June 6, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Effects of introducing a general interest barrier - Evidence from the German corporate tax reform 2008

    Speaker: Hermann Buslei, Martin Simmler
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    In this study we investigate the impact of the thin capitalization rule (TCR) introduced in Germany in 2008 on firms; capital structure, investment and profitability. Since all firms are better off by avoiding the TCR, this means analyzing firms; behavior to avoid the TCR. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses in the regulation using a difference-in-difference ...

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  • May 30, 2012

    Seminar

    Every Man for Himself! Gender, Norms and Survival in Maritime Disasters
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Mikael Elinder, Uppsala University
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of ‘women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning three centuries, covering the fate of over 15,000 individuals of more than 30 ...

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  • May 23, 2012

    Seminar

    In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract:This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required health insurance companies ...

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  • May 16, 2012

    Seminar

    Stealing to Survive: Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Roberto Galbiati (CNRS Paris)
    Location: Freie Universität Berlin
    Raum 202 (Kaminzimmer)
    Boltzmannstr. 20
    14195 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Using department level administrative data from 1826 to 1936 we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis. Between 1863 and 1890, phylloxera destroyed about 40% of French vineyards. Using the departmental variation in the timing of this shock we ...

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  • May 9, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Generalized Roy Model and The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Programs

    Speaker: Philipp Eisenhauer (ZEW Mannheim)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:30-17:30

    The standard analysis of treatment effects only considers the gross benefit of treatment and does not consider the cost as perceived by the agents or the surplus arising from participation in programs (the private subjective evaluation of the program). This paper extends the analysis of Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2005) to identify parameters measuring the costs and net gains of arising from ...

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  • May 9, 2012

    Seminar

    The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses - Evidence from plant closures in Germany
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Jan Marcus
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30-8.00 pm

    Abstract:Previous studies on the health effects of unemployment neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study estimates the effect of one spouse's unemployment on the mental health of the other spouse. In order to give the estimates a causal interpretation, this study focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (plant closure), and combines matching based on entropy balancing and difference ...

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  • May 2, 2012

    Seminar

    Quality Upgrading and Price Heterogeneity: Evidence from Brazilian Exporters
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Lisandra Flach, University of Mannheim
    Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
    Raum B002/3
    Reichpietschufer 50
    10785 Berlin

    Abstract:This paper studies the relation between quality upgrading and pricing across firms and destination countries. The paper builds a model based on heterogeneous firms that set quality and prices to heterogeneous consumers. To test the predictions of this model, the paper uses a uniquely rich data that combines producer quality information and exporter prices by firm and destination country. ...

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  • April 18, 2012

    Seminar

    Flexibilisation without Hesitation? Temporary Contracts and Workers' Satisfaction
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Clemens Hetschko (FU Berlin)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Labour market flexibilisation has long been considered a key policy tool for increasing employment. However, sceptics argue that workers suffer from labour market flexibilisation. While empirically investigating the psychological costs of temporary contracts, we question this argument for one flexibilisation instrument. We test whether temporary contracts are associated with different ...

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  • April 11, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Labor supply of mothers with young children: Validating a structural model using a natural experiment

    Speaker: Katharina Wrohlich
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:00-13:00

    In this paper we estimate an intertemporal structural model of labor supply for mothers with young children. In order to validate the structural model, we make use of a recently introduced parental leave reform in Germany. We compare the behavioral predictions of the structural model under the reform (out-of-sample fit) to results based on an evaluation of the parental leave reform as a natural ...

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  • April 3, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Effects of changes in student composition on teacher mobility. Evidence from the admission reform

    Speaker: Krzysztof Karbownik (Uppsala University)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This paper examines teacher job mobility using matcher employee-employer panel data from Stockholm municipality upper secondary schools. I utilize the exogenous change in upper secondary school admission which led to the sharp reshuffling of students within the municipality. This quasi experimental set up provides a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between changes in student ...

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  • February 29, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Risks and Returns to Educational Fields - A financial asset approach to vocational and academic education

    Speaker: Johanna Storck

    Applying a financial assets approach, we investigate the risks and returns to investments into different types of human capital. Even so the returns from investing in human capital have expensively been studied, little is known about the properties of the return to different types of human capital. Using information from the German Micro Census, we estimate the risk and returns to around 70 fields ...

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  • January 18, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Dynamics of Earnings in Germany: Evidence from Social Security Records

    Speaker: Holger Lüthen
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    We examine patterns of earnings volatility for male employees who are subject to statutory social security contributions in West Germany over the period 1986 - 2005. For this purpose, we analyse individual records covering highly reliable earnings biographies provided by the German Social Security Administration. We decompose earnings into permanent and transitory components and estimate ...

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  • November 23, 2011

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    When can we trust population thresholds in regression discontinuity designs

    Speaker: Florian Ade, Ronny Freier
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    A recent literature uses variation just around legislative population thresholds to identify causal effects of institutional changes. We review the use of regression discontinuity designs using such thresholds. Our concern is threefold: (1) simultaneous exogenous (co-)treatment, (2) simultaneous endogenous choices and (3) manipulation and precise control over population measures. Revisiting the ...

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