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  • June 19, 2013

    Seminar

    The health effects of weather and pollution: implications for climate change
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

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

    Abstract: This paper comprehensively assesses the joint effects of extreme weather conditions and pollution shocks on population health. We merge German censuses of hospital admissions and death records for 1999 to 2008 with rich weather and pollution data from more than 2,000 ambient monitors on a daily county level basis. Extreme heat significantly increases hospitalizations and deaths.

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  • June 12, 2013

    Seminar

    Measuring and Assessing the Effect of Job Mismatch
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Michael Böhm (LSE/Bonn University)
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: We propose and implement a method to measure mismatch using observable worker and job characteristics rather than outcome variables. The approach consists of estimating the deviation from the average match between relative job task supply and demand. We show that, as predicted in the theoretical literature, mismatch is detrimental for wages and job satisfaction.

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  • June 5, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Education and time investment in children: Is Germany different?

    Speaker: Verena Lauber, Universität Konstanz
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Parental investment in terms of money and time is considered to be crucial for a child's development. Research on childcare, which is mainly based on US data, agrees that education has a positive impact on maternal caring time, despite the fact that high earning prospects increase the incentives for labor market participation. Given differences in the family support and other aspect of family ...

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  • June 5, 2013

    Seminar

    High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Alfredo Paloyo (RWI Essen)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: We estimate the effects on wage and employment growth rates of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in the main construction industry of Germany. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual employment histories, we exploit the spatial dimension and border discontinuities of the regional data to account for spillovers between districts and ...

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  • May 22, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Estimating labour supply elasticity from bunching: Some issues

    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

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  • May 22, 2013

    Seminar

    The Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed and the Role of "Unobserved" Characteristics for Matching Estimators
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Martin Weißenberger (University of Potsdam)
    Location: WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
    Reichpietschufer 50
    10785 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have become an important part of Active La- bor Market Policy (ALMP) in many countries. Previous evaluation results show pre- dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an effective way to increase employment probabilities and income of participants. Most of the stud- ies are using matching estimators based on the ...

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  • May 15, 2013

    Seminar

    The power of (no) recognition: Evidence from a field experiment
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Nick Zubanov (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: While recognition is considered a major employee motivation tool by HRM practitioners, sound empirical evidence on its efficacy is just beginning to appear. We contribute to this nascent evidence by running a field experiment involving students on a large undergraduate course. Our treatment, given in randomly selected student groups, was to publicly recognize students who scored within ...

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  • April 24, 2013

    Seminar

    The Impact of Immigration on Natives' Wages: Heterogeneity resulting from Product and Labor Market Regulation
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Susanne Prantl (University of Cologne, MPI)
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Sorry, the seminar has been canceled!Abstract: Does regulation of product and labor markets alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native workers? We take German reunification as a natural experiment and compare the wage consequences of East Germans migrating into different segments of the West German labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which ...

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  • April 24, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Reducing binge drinking? The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays

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

    Excessive alcohol consumption among the youth is a major public health concern both in Germany and Europe. In March 2010 the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am in off-premise outlets (e.g. petrol stations, supermarkets). We use monthly administrative data from a 70% random sample of all hospital admissions for the years 2007-2 ...

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  • April 18, 2013

    Seminar

    Fiscal Implications of Public Employee Pension Promises in the United States
    Seminar in Public Economics

    Speaker: Josh Rau, Stanford University homepage
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 15.15 - 16.45

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  • April 17, 2013

    Seminar

    Social Insurance and the Marriage Market
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Petra Persson (Columbia University)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: When social insurance eligibility depends on marital status, this is a government intervention into the marriage market. I formally show that such intervention influences three behavioral margins in the marriage market, and test the theory exploiting a Swedish reform of survivors insurance - an annuity paid to widows, but not divorcees, upon the husband's death. First, I analyze bunching ...

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  • April 17, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Do mothers adjust their labor supply in response to child-raising benefits in the pension system?

    Speaker: Andreas Thiemann
    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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  • March 20, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Bank’s trading activity, the lending channel and real investment - Evidence from individual firm-bank relationships in Germany

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

    What began as a financial crisis in 2007/2008 quickly became a massive crisis of the real economy. We investigate the importance of the bank lending and firm borrowing channel in the transmission of asset price shocks to real investment. For the analysis we match individual firm and bank financial statements in Germany for the period of 2004-2010. The data include a large number of medium sized ...

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  • March 6, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap

    Speaker: Patricia Gallego Granados
    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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  • February 20, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Day-care quality and work-care choices of mothers in Germany

    Speaker: C. Katharina Spieß, Pia S. Schober
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    This study investigates the relationship between locally available quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions and the probability of maternal employment, use of formal and informal care arrangements. By considering several indicators of structural quality we extend the existing literature which has mostly focused on the importance of availability or costs of ECEC services ...

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  • February 13, 2013

    Seminar

    Moving to Opportunity or No Opportunity to Move? - Financial Constraints, Internal Migration and Unemployment
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Jonathan Stöterau (HU Berlin)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: In this paper, I investigate the effect of residential relocation on individual unemployment duration using geo-referenced data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In contrast with earlier research on migration, this study considers people who move before having found a job and asks how employment outcomes vary by the nature of migration (i.e. its reasons and characteristics). In ...

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  • February 6, 2013

    Seminar

    Taxation and Precautionary Savings over the Life Cycle
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Davud Rostam-Afschar (FU Berlin)
    Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Raum 21A
    Spandauer Straße 1
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: In this paper, we examine the effect of progressive taxation on precautionary savings. While there is an extensive literature on precautionary savings in the presence of labor income uncertainty, this paper adds to the small number of studies that explores the link between progressive taxation and precautionary savings.

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  • January 30, 2013

    Seminar

    Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Ronnie Schöb (FU Berlin) (joint with Andreas Knabe and Joachim Weimann)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership strengthens the loss in ...

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  • January 23, 2013

    Seminar

    Medium-term Effects of the German Parental Benefit Reform
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Sebastian Schmitz (HU Berlin), joint work with Jochen Kluve
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper investigates the medium-term effects of Germany's recent parental benefit reform on the mothers' labour participation and modes of employment as well as marriage behaviour using a natural experiment. The new scheme led to a four percentage point higher labour participation rate three to four years after childbirth. Moreover, there is an increase in the share of part-time jobs, ...

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  • January 16, 2013

    Seminar

    Gender Pay Gap, Tasks and Occupational Changes
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Alexandra Fedorets (HU Berlin)
    Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Raum 21A
    Spandauer Straße 1
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Since 1990s it is observed that gender segregation in occupations in Germany declines. At the same time, gender pay gap in Germany diminishes. According to the task-based approach, such a dynamic of gender pay gap can be explained by increasing proficiency of women in non-routine cognitive tasks, as well as falling fraction of routine tasks performed by women. As non-routine cognitive ...

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