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Externe Working Papers
While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is scarce to non-existent. This is problematic because both theoretical and empirical evidence show that the position in the wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge. We measure ex-ante IOp in net wealth for Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2023,
54 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 16488)
| Daniel Graeber, Viola Hilbert, Johannes König
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Personnel news
* The 5th of January 1953 in Kelsterbach – † The 28th of January 2024 in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, the long-time director of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), passed away unexpectedly on January 28, 2024. Alongside the founding father of the SOEP, Hans-Jürgen Krupp, Gert G. Wagner was the face and intellectual stimulus for the development of the SOEP for decades, which is celebrating ...
02.02.2024
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Personnel news
* The 5th of January 1953 in Kelsterbach – † The 28th of January 2024 in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, the long-time director of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), passed away unexpectedly on January 28, 2024. Alongside the founding father of the SOEP, Hans-Jürgen Krupp, Gert G. Wagner was the face and intellectual stimulus for the development of the SOEP for decades, which is celebrating ...
02.02.2024
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the incidence of severe health shocks at the workplace level. Using rich linked employer-employee data from Germany and an instrumental variable leveraging policy variation, I show that firms with a higher concentration of foreign workers experience lower rates of long-term sickness among their employees. Decomposing the rates by gender and worker...
04.12.2024| Izabela Wnuk-Soares
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper studies and compares the effect of different adverse life events -- job loss, disability and health shocks, divorce and spousal death -- on individuals' income trajectories. We use a harmonized design across events in terms of methodology and data: matching difference-in-difference with exhaustive Dutch administrative registers. We assess the effect of adverse events on different...
18.12.2024| Julie Tréguier
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Research Project
Experiences with the regionally differentiated climate dividend in Austria in terms of effectiveness, acceptance and feasibility in the administration. Contribution of a regionally differentiated climate dividend to the acceptance of climate policy (social compatibility and efficiency) Transferability of the Austrian concept and experiences with implementation to Germany.
Current Project| Public Economics
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DIW Discussion Papers 2100 / 2024
Using a data-driven approach to identify structural vector autoregressive models, we examine key factors influencing the US dollar exchange rate across eight advanced economies from 1980 to 2022. We find that shocks to inflation expectations, which are closely tied to unfunded government transfer payments, have a pronounced effect on the US dollar’s value. This underscores the fiscal dimension of exchange ...
2024| Kerstin Bernoth, Helmut Herwartz, Lasse Trienens
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Workshop
In the workshop on entrepreneurship and management at DIW Berlin, scientists discuss research results from the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and management. The two-day event includes presentations and discussions on entrepreneurial human capital, the impact of technological progress on companies, strategies for the resilience of startups and the dynamics of innovation.
21.11.2024| Sara Amoroso, Irene Bertschek, Werner Bönte, Saul Estrin, Mercedes Teruel Carrizosa, K. Poghosyan, Vivien Procher, Diemo Urbig, Theodor Vladasel, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch, Johannes Seebauer, Daniel Graeber
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Workshop
The workshop aims to bring together researchers from Economics, Information Systems, Law, Marketing, Strategy, and related fields who study Digitization.
For inquiries dew2025@diw.de
Event page
23.03.2025
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Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart...
28.03.2025| Michele Fioretti (Bocconi University), Cristina Gualdani (Queen Mary University of London), Markus Reisinger (Frankfurt School), Julia Salmi (Hanken School of Economics), Cole Williams (Durham University)