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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions in the corporate sector such as on company boards. One of the reasons for this underrepresentation are gender stereotypes on the skill distribution, social and occupational roles, personality traits, and how they affect labor market decision making. Media plays an important role in transporting gender stereotypes. In this paper we...
21.06.2023| Virginia Sondergeld
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DIW Discussion Papers 2042 / 2023
This paper provides causal evidence on the effect of credit crunches on political polarization. We combine data on bank-firm connections and electoral outcomes at the city-level during the 2008-2014 Spanish Financial Crisis. First, we show that firms in a relationship with weak banks experience a reduction in their loan supply and employment growth. Next, we estimate the effects of unemployment on ...
2023| Pia Hüttl, Simon Baumgartner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic ...
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European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, S. 623-641
| Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino, Agnese Vitali
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The energy crisis and the accelerated transition to climate neutrality result in a shift from the traditional energy trilemma to an “energy quartet” across Europe. Firstly, the criteria of affordability, previously focused on short-term price developments, broadens to reliable affordability including in crises. Secondly, clean energy traditionally focused on clean production now extends to clean energy ...
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Energy Policy
180 (2023), 113691, 7 S.
| Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein, Mats Kröger
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Negative policy rates can convince markets that deposit rates will remain lower-for-longer, even when current deposit rates are constrained by zero. This is the signalling channel of negative interest rates. We analyse the optimality and effectiveness of negative rates in the context of this novel transmission channel. In a stylized model, we prove two necessary conditions for optimality: time-consistency ...
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Journal of Monetary Economics
138 (2023), S. 87-103
| Oliver de Groot, Alexander Haas
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Personnel news
Congratulations to Laura Schmitz for her dissertation defense. Her dissertation was titled 'Understanding the Impact of Education and Environmental Policy on Human Capital Formation: Four Essays in Applied Economics', Katharina Spiess and Felix Weinhardt were her supervisors. Laura will not be leaving us, but is now starting as a PostDoc in the Energy, Transport, Environment Department.
30.06.2023
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The energy transition requires substantial amounts of metals, including copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Are these metals a bottleneck? We identify metal-specific demand shocks, estimate supply elasticities, and study the price impact of the transition in a structural scenario analysis. Prices of these four metals would reach previous historical peaks but for an unprecedented, sustained period ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
22 (2024), 1, S. 200–229
| Lukas Boer, Andrea Pescatori, Martin Stuermer
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
From July 17 to 21, the tenth European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference will take place in Milan, Italy. 12 SOEP researchers will organize sessions or present their work in more than 20 sessions. An overview of the SOEP presentations can be found here.
SOEP will also have its own exhibition stand - so come by and learn more about news from the institute and the SOEP data world.
29.06.2023
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Press Release
Survey of 100 medium-sized and large companies in Germany examines the integration of refugees into the labor market – Employing refugees improves employee satisfaction, company attractiveness, and business development – Potential for self-employment remains largely untapped among refugees
Employing refugees has made them more attractive as employers. This is reported by 80 percent of the companies ...
18.05.2022
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Explanations on share of renewable energy in the electricity sector
Why "traffic light"?
Energy targets of the German government - and what has been achieved
The traffic light coalition is history - but it has left its mark on energy policy. The traffic light coalition set out to bring new momentum to the energy transition and has set itself a number of specific ...