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DIW Discussion Papers 2138 / 2025
Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 – in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...
2025| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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Externe Working Papers
While Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platforms are a virtual space for raising funds, geography remains relevant. To determine how location matters for entrepreneurs using equity crowdfunding (ECF), we analyze the spatial distribution of successful ECF campaigns and the spatial relationship between ECF campaigns and traditional investors, such as banks and venture capitalists (VCs). Using data from the ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2025,
45 S.
(CEPA Discussion Paper ; 91)
| Torben Klarl, Alexander S. Kritikos, Knarik Poghosyan
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
In this paper, we draw on two key models of stereotyping, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) and the Agency-Beliefs-Communion (ABC) to study whether stereotypes associated to ethnic minorities predict discrimination in hiring in the German labor market. In study 1, we examined the content of the stereotypes that Germans ascribe to 38 ethnic minorities, drawing on a large-scale online survey (N=2,3...
12.11.2025| Ruta Yemane, the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
While inequalities in inter-vivos gifts and bequests between families are widely recognized as key drivers of wealth inequality, less is known about the unequal transmission of wealth within families. This study addresses this gap by asking: (1) To what extent are estates unequally divided? (2) How do estate portfolios, primogeniture, and patrilineality shape unequal estate division? (3) What is...
10.12.2025| Nhat An Trinh, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This study examines the 2016 reform of Germany's Residence Act that intended to foster refugee integration by extending the waiting period for permanent residency from three to five years and introducing requirements, such as proficiency in German and partial financial independence. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ a difference-in-differences design to analyse...
07.01.2026| Elena Matheny, European University Viadrina
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Regional economic disparities within countries have become increasingly large, often surpassing the disparities observed between countries. To address regional inequality, governments have been turning away from standard subsidies and are experimenting with public employment reallocation as a place-based policy. This paper estimates the causal effect of public employment reallocation on local...
21.01.2026| Dimitria Freitas, TU Dresden
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
In this paper we study the effectiveness of a randomized migration mentoring program, and the role of network embeddedness at origin, for migration decisions and outcomes in rural Senegal. The mentoring program improves job expectations when migrating, migration experiences, and economic outcomes. When the mentoring is attended by randomly assigned migrant from the origin village, positive...
04.02.2026| Cara Ebert, RWI
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America during 2019–2020 using a gravity model estimated with the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator (PPML). Results show that containment measures in receiving ...
In:
Journal of International Development
34 (2022), 4, S. 803-822
| Adriana Cardozo Silva, Luis R. Diaz Pavez, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between final and intermediate goods for a global sample of trade partners. Data on exports from four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) to 61 destinations over the period 1995–2016 are ...
In:
The World Economy
45 (2022), 5, S. 1501-1527
| Adriana Cardozo, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Paula L. Vogler
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