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Externe Working Papers
Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to increase the formalization of firms and workers, including information campaigns, simplification of registration procedures, reductions of payroll taxes and social security contributions, and interventions ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2019,
30 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 12487)
| Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve
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Externe Working Papers
We estimate the effects of center-based care on parenting activities with children using data from time diaries and a family survey for Germany. Our estimates imply that usage of center-based care reduces the amount of time that a parent spends with their enrolled child, but only small negative effects on the amount of time spent on parenting activities. Correspondingly, center-based care increases ...
London:
CEP,
2020,
65 S.
(CEP Discussion Paper ; 1710)
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Reductions in the cost of PV and batteries encourage households to invest in PV battery prosumage. We explore the implications for the rest of the power sector by applying two open-source techno-economic models to scenarios in Western Australia for the year 2030. Household PV capacity generally substitutes utility PV, but slightly less so as additional household batteries are installed. Wind power ...
In:
Applied Energy
276 (2020), 115466, 14 S.
| Kelvin Say, Wolf-Peter Schill, Michele John
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study examines the accumulation of personal wealth of husbands and wives and investigates the development of within-couple wealth inequalities over time in marriage. Going beyond previous re- search that mostly studied the marriage wealth premium using household-level wealth data and that conceptualized marriage as an instantaneous transition with uniform consequences over time, we argue that ...
In:
European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 4, S. 580-593
| Nicole Kapelle, Philipp M. Lersch
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DIW Weekly Report 35 / 2020
Following the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, many European countries introduced bank levies to enable financial institutions to share in the costs of future banking crises via resolution and restructuring funds. Simultaneously, bank levies can set an incentive for banks to reduce their leverage, thereby achieving a more stable capital structure. Using information from banks’ balance sheets, ...
2020| Franziska Bremus, Lena Tonzer
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Research on couple bargaining and housework allocation focuses almost exclusively on partners’ economic resources. In this study, we ask whether additional bargaining resources, namely physical appearance and social networks, may exert a distinct effect – that is, whether partners can mobilize multiple resources within their bargaining framework. A focus on multiple bargaining chips is made possible ...
In:
Acta Sociologica
63 (2020), 1, S. 3-22
| Goesta Esping-Anderson, Christian Schmitt
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We assess whether compliance with Basel III’s main requirements, the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) and the risk-weighted Total Capital Ratio (TCR), matters for lending and stability of African banks. Banks with an NSFR or a TCR of at least the required minimum are defined as treatment group in the endogenous treatment estimations. Our results reveal that African banks complying with the capital threshold ...
In:
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money
67 (2020), 101201, S. 1-20
| Samuel Mutarindwa, Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan
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SOEPpapers 1102 / 2020
Following the fall of the Iron Curtain it was important for the acceptance of the new economic and political system that the former Communist elites did not maintain their privileges, and that protesters, who helped to overturn the old system, improved their situation. With newly available panel data on East Germany’s socialist past, the German Democratic Republic, we analyze how former Communist elites, ...
2020| Max Deter
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the characteristics of inflation targeting as a shock absorber, using quarterly data for a large panel of countries. To overcome an endogeneity problem between monetary regimes and the likelihood of crises, we propose to study large natural disasters. We find that inflation targeting improves macroeconomic performance following such exogenous shocks. It lowers inflation, raises output growth, ...
In:
Journal of International Economics
123 (2020), 103308, 16 S.
| Marcel Fratzscher, Christoph Große Steffen, Malte Rieth
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SOEPpapers 1101 / 2020
Cost-utility analysis compares the monetary cost of health interventions to the associated health consequences expressed using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). At whichthreshold the ratio of both is still acceptable is a highly contested issue. Obtaining societal valuations of the monetary value of a QALY can help in setting such threshold values but it remains methodologically challenging. A recent ...
2020| Sebastian Himmler, Jannis Stöckel, Job van Exel, Werner Brouwer