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DIW Discussion Papers 1851 / 2020
We study the impact of different regulatory designs on the cost efficiency of operators providing a public service, exploiting data from the French transport industry. The distinctive feature of the study is that it considers regulatory regimes as endogenously determined choices, explained by economic, political, and institutional variables. Our approach leans on a positive analysis to study the determinants ...
2020| Joanna Piechucka
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SOEPpapers 1070 / 2020
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women into full-time employment. ...
2020| Patricia Gallego Granados, Katharina Wrohlich
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SOEPpapers 1069 / 2020
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees and female irregular migrants are ...
2020| Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara
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Graduate Center Minicourses
Minicourses are a series of one or two day courses on various topics in Economics, organized by the DIW Graduate Center. The target audience consists of graduate students in Economics at Berlin universities and research institutes. The GC Minicourses are held on an irregular basis at DIW Berlin (about once a month) and are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin, those of the BDPEMS program, and...
02.07.2020| Luke Haywood, MCC
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Graduate Center Short Course
Syllabus
Vector Autoregressive Models
Vector Error Correction Models
Structural VAR Tools
Bayesian VAR Analysis
Identification by Short-Run Restrictions
Identification by Long-Run Restrictions
Inference for Impulse Responses
Sign Restrictions
Identification by Heteroskedasticity or Non-Gaussianity
Identification Based on External Instruments
Structural VAR Analysis in a Data-Rich...
19.10.2020| Helmut Lütkepohl
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the effectiveness of intrahousehold insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show that husbands suffer persistent employment and earnings losses, while wives' labor supply increases moderately due to extensive margin responses. Wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction ...
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
12 (2020), 4, S. 253-287
| Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The present paper analyzes how the statutory minimum wage introduced on January 1, 2015, has affected working hours in Germany up to 2016. The data used come from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which provides not only contractual working hours but also actual hours worked. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, we find a significant and robust reduction in contractual working hours ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
240 (2020), 2-3, S. 233-267
| Patrick Burauel, Marco Caliendo, Markus M. Grabka, Cosima Obst, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Using large-scale data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds that financial professionals have a lower prosociality and riskier behavior than a control group. I interpret these findings using the person-organization fit theory, and thus, the compatibility between the employee's personality and the prevailing culture in their organization....
12.02.2020| Max Deter, University of Wuppertal
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Refereed essays Web of Science
People’s risk preferences are thought to be central to many consequential real-life decisions, making it important to identify robust correlates of this construct. Various psychological theories have put forth a series of candidate correlates, yet the strength and robustness of their associations remain unclear because of disparate operationalizations of risk preference and analytic limitations in ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
120 (2021), 2, S. 538–557
| Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp, Ralph Hertwig, Rui Mata
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SOEPpapers 1066 / 2020
The subject of emigration from affluent countries, such as Germany, raises the question of who are more likely to leave their highly-industrialized countries known for high living standards, stable political scene and prosperous economy. Using the theory of postmaterialism (Inglehart, 1997) this paper explores emigration intentions of German nationals taking into account country’s specific socio-economic ...
2020| Elena Samarsky