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Refereed essays Web of Science
The research on wealth inequality has generally focused on real and financial assets, while giving little attention to pension wealth: the present value of future pension entitlements from public and company pension schemes. This is surprising given the important role pension plans play in guaranteeing material security and well‐being for a majority of the population, and suggests that they should ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
65 (2019),4, S. 834-871
| Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff, Lennard Zyska
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, it can be solved by an interior-point algorithm. If it is quasiconvex, the bisection method can be used. Using artificial and real-world data, we implement ...
In:
Journal of Economic Inequality
16 (2018), 4, S. 607-629
| Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the income distribution, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme is almost distributionally neutral in terms of standard inequality measures. Two effects offset ...
In:
Finanzarchiv
74 (2018) 4, S. 415-445
| Giacomo Corneo, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Many informal caregivers are of working age, facing the double burden of providing care and working. Negative labor supply effects can severely reduce the comparative cost advantage of informal over formal care arrangements. When designing long‐term care (LTC) policies, it is crucial to understand the effects not only on health outcomes but also on labor supply behavior of informal caregivers. We evaluate ...
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Health Economics
27 (2018), 9, S. 1328-1339
| Johannes Geyer, Thorben Korfhage
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Personnel news
Maximilian Bach, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate at the Education and Family Department, has received the BeNA Innovation Research Award 2018. The prize was awarded for his current paper "Teacher Incentives and Grade Retention" at this year's BeNA Labor Economics Workshop on May 14.
The GC congratulates Max on his success!
22.05.2018
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Berlin Seminar
The European Commission launched the 'Coal Regions in Transition Platform' on Dec 11th, 2017 in Strasbourg. This initiative shall support transformation projects and provide a high level policy dialogue on coal. In a next step several pilot regions were chosen, including also Lusatia´s coal region. This BSEC shall give the opportunity to discuss future steps needed on the European, German...
22.05.2018| Anna Colucci, Head of Unit DG ENER.B3: Retail markets; coal & oil, European CommissionTimon Wehnert, Vice Head Berlin Office, Wuppertal Institute Dr. Sabrina Schulz, Head of Berlin office, E3G Uwe Steffen, Head of Referat 31 Grundsatz, Energierecht, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Brandenburg
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Personnel news
Jonas Jessen, from the Education and Family department, has been granted a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from June 2018 on.
The Dean of the Graduate Center, Prof. Weizsäcker congratulates him on his success!
18.05.2018
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DIW Discussion Papers 1737 / 2018
To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. To account for policy endogeneity due to unobservables, we employ the synthetic control method on a unique panel of monthly waste generation. Our results show that the ...
2018| Matheus Bueno, Marica Valente
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DIW Roundup 122 / 2018
The Capital Markets Union (CMU) – an initiative of the European Commission – aims to unify and deepen capital markets across EU Member States by removing existing barriers to cross-border investment and, in particular, harmonizing financial and business regulations. However, harmonizing institutional frameworks across the EU Member States that historically have different legal traditions is difficult ...
2018| Tatsiana Kliatskova
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DIW Discussion Papers 1736 / 2018
Dieses Discussion Paper wurde auf Wunsch der Autoren zurückgezogen. - This discussion paper was withdrawn at the request of the authors.
2018| Olaf Hübler, Lukas Menkhoff, Ulrich Schmidt