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DIW Discussion Papers 1932 / 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large representative panel data sets from West Germany, ...
2021| Sophia Schmitz, C. Katharina Spieß
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SOEPpapers 1123 / 2021
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and -economic observed characteristics, we find that pro-activity is negatively associated with the well-being ...
2021| Alpaslan Akay, Gökhan Karabulut, Levent Yilmaz
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SOEPpapers 1122 / 2021
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a debate about the need to reform the law. This paper provides representative evidence on wage payments to works ...
2021| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
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DIW Weekly Report 9 / 2021
Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation rate is associated with a smaller gender pay gap. The gender differences in the characteristics of the labor force, which vary across countries, are one explanation ...
2021| Julia Schmieder, Katharina Wrohlich
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Externe Working Papers
The European Union has put in place an extraordinary array of policy measures to mitigate the devastating economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sheer amount and extent of the support economic lifelines makes a rushed termination of policies potentially subject to dire cliff effects. Avoiding these cliff effects requires a combination of decisive and long-lasting fiscal stimuli with an ...
Bruxelles:
European Parliament,
2021,
23 S.
(Monetary Dialogue Papers ; March 2021)
| Jan Phillip Fritsche, Anna Gibert, Chi Hyun Kim
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DIW Discussion Papers 1935 / 2021
For the European Union to realise its ambition of carbon neutrality, emissions from basic material production need to be reduced through low-carbon production processes, material efficiency and substitution, as well as enhanced recycling. Different reform options for the EU ETS are discussed that ensure a consistent carbon price incentive for all these mitigation options, while avoiding the risk of ...
2021| Jan Stede, Stefan Pauliuk, Gilang Hardadi, Karsten Neuhoff
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DIW Discussion Papers 1934 / 2021
This paper analyzes two dimensions of factors of political trust in Russia. The first dimension is the target dimension (sociotropic vs. egocentric), the second dimension is the time dimension (retrospective vs. perspective). The study is based on the microdata of 2016 Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We find a robust evidence in favor of the ...
2021| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Vyacheslav N. Ovchinnikov, Marina Yu. Malkina, Igor A. Moiseev
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the determinants of common European merger policy over its first 25 years, from 1990 to 2014. Using a novel dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all relevant merger cases notified to the European Commission, we evaluate how consistently arguments related to structural market parameters – dominance, rising concentration, barriers to entry, and foreclosure – ...
In:
International Journal of Industrial Organization
76 (2021), 102720, 22 S.
| Pauline Affeldt, Tomaso Duso, Florian Szücs
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Tests for identification through heteroskedasticity in structural vector autoregressive analysis are developed for models with two volatility states where the time point of volatility change is known. The tests are Wald-type tests for which only the unrestricted model, including the covariance matrices of the two volatility states, has to be estimated. The residuals of the model are assumed to be from ...
In:
The Econometrics Journal
24 (2021), 1, S. 1-22
| Helmut Lütkepohl, Mika Meitz, Aleksei Netšunajev, Pentti Saikkonen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper analyses the calculation principles used for determining the level and differentiation ofHGV charges in Germany. It demonstrates that calculating average cost-based charges is far fromstraightforward, even with an agreed methodology, and involves sensitive methodological choices.Based on a review of available studies, the paper argues that estimating marginal costs does notnecessarily involve ...
In:
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
55 (2021), 2, S. 141–162
| Heike Link