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  • February 3 - 4, 2014

    Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber, University of Mannheim
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

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  • January 29, 2014

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Is Being Tough Helpful? Search Requirements, Sanction Threats and Time to Job Finding

    Speaker: Amelie Schiprowski
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    (joint with Patrick Arni) The enforcement of job search requirements is increasingly employed to determine the level of search effort provided by unemployment insurance recipients. We evaluate the impacts of this policy on the rate of job finding. Previous research on job search monitoring has focused on the effects of an imposed benefit sanction. By estimating the impacts of requirement policies ...

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  • January 22, 2014

    BeNA - Seminar on Labor Research

    Effects of the 2009 Scrappage Premium on German Households’ Consumption Patterns

    Speaker: Stefan Witte (Saarland University)
    Location: WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
    Reichpietschufer 50
    10785 Berlin
    Time: 18:30 - 20:00

    Abstract: We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to analyze household consumption spending reactions to the German 2009 car scrappage scheme. The subsidy meant a windfall gain to concerned households and a rational reaction would be to adjust the consumption path to the increase in permanent income. Applying regression methods, we model different categories of consumption spending ...

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  • January 15, 2014

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Educational Choice against All the Odds - Personality Traits as a Tool Kit?

    Speaker: Johanna Storck
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    Students from a non-academic background have a significant lower probability of receiving tertiary education than their peers from an academic background. This is true even in an educational system where higher education is free of charge and financial constraints play a rather small role. Many theoretical and empirical articles describe reasons for this inequality. While primary effects, as less ...

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  • January 15, 2014

    BeNA - Seminar on Labor Research

    Spite - another aspect of competition?

    Speaker: Benedikt Hermann (University of Nottingham)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 18:30 - 20:00

    Abstract: While numerous experiments demonstrate how pro-sociality can influence economic decision-making, evidence on explicitly anti-social economic behavior has thus far been limited. In this paper we investigate the importance of spite in experimental rent-seeking contests. Our social preference elicitations reveal that subjects'investments are driven by spite, not fairness or reciprocity.

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  • January 13, 2014

    Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    Crime is Terribly Revealing: An Evaluation of Predictive Policing

    Speaker: Dr. Giovanni Mastrobuoni, University of Essex
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

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  • December 18, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Transition to Parenthood and the Dynamic of Women´s Economic Dependency. A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland

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

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  • December 4, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    What happens if women disappear from the labor market? Occupational status of women at marriage in a modernizing society

    Speaker: Wiebke Schulz (University of Bielefeld)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    joint with Ineke Maas & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen The nineteenth and twentieth centuries are an especially interesting period to investigate women's status attainment in Western societies because interesting and partly contrary developments took place. First, women increasingly withdrew from the labor market after marriage, possibly as a consequence of increasing prosperity that allowed families ...

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  • December 2, 2013

    Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    Media Bias and Competition in China

    Speaker: Professor David Strömberg, Stockholm University
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

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  • November 20, 2013

    BeNA - Seminar on Labor Research

    The returns to graduating with honors - Evidence from law graduates

    Speaker: Mathias Schumann (University of Hamburg)
    Location: RWI Berlin
    in the facilities of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (R. 1.15)
    Chausseestr. 111
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 18:30 - 20:00

    Abstract: The paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent labor market outcomes. While a rich literature has focused on the identification of the returns to human capital, few studies could analyze returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the importance of honors degrees for future labor market success in the context ...

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  • November 20, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Employment and Wage Impacts of Social Security Contributions

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

    We present work in progress on evaluating the employment and wage effects of social security contributions (SSC). We propose to use an equilibrium job search model allowing for extensive and intensive employment reactions, with firms also changing wages. The model naturally generates adjustment dynamics. Using firm-level data on productivity will allow us to identify to what extent productive ...

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  • November 6, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Music or Sports - An empirical analysis of their differential effects on child development

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

    (joint with Charlotte Cabane and Michael Lechner)Previous studies on the effects of leisure activities on skill development do not discuss whether such activities are complements or substitutes. Comparing to which extent various extracurricular activities influence skill development brings us closer to understanding the formation of educational inequalities as well as the mechanisms behind skill ...

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  • November 4, 2013

    Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    Managerial Incentives in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from School-Based Nutrition Programs in Rural China

    Speaker: Marcos Vera-Hernández (UCL)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

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  • October 7, 2013

    Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service

    Speaker: Imran Rasul (University College London)
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

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  • September 27 - 28, 2013

    Workshop

    Taxation and the Distribution of Incomes
    International Workshop

    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    Please register by email at Nicole Haase.

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    • Documents
  • July 17, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Labor supply estimation with endogenous rationing. An application to the federal minimum wage in Germany

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

    This paper extends a standard static structural labor supply framework by taking labor demand constraints into account. Contrary to previous papers the rationing risk is not only determined by exogenous demand side factors, but also depends on the individual's productivity. The resulting labor supply elasticities from the extended framework differ from the unconstrained model. This approach is ...

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  • July 10, 2013

    Seminar

    The Economic Incidence of Social Security Contributions: Evidence from German Administrative Data
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Michael Neumann
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper applies a test for the economic incidence of social security contributions (SSC) based on the reaction of gross wages in response to a variation in social security contributions. Exploiting an increase of the East German taxable maximum of health insurance, a difference-in-differences approach is used to estimate its effects on yearly changes in gross wages.

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  • July 3, 2013

    Seminar

    The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Jan Sauermann (SOFI)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: We estimate tenure-performance profiles using panel data on individual workers' performance. The results show that a 10 per cent increase in tenure leads to a performance increase of 4.3 per cent of a standard deviation; this translates to a performance increase of 61 per cent within the first year of the employment relationship.

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  • June 26, 2013

    Seminar

    Top of Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank Position
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Felix Weinhardt (LSE)
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: We find an individual's ordinal rank within their reference group has effects on later objective outcomes. To evaluate the impact of local rank, we use a large administrative dataset spanning five cohorts of the student population in England. Academic rank within primary school has sizable, robust and significant effects on later achievement, conditional on national test scores.

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  • June 19, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Natural Disaster, Policy Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

    Speaker: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Cornell University, Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental distress in another industrialized country, 5500 miles away. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 25% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase-out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition to renewables. ...

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