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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 - This discussion paper was withdrawn at the request of the authors.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
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DIW Discussion Papers 1735 / 2018
In the 2011 post-Arab Spring migration wave, over 64,000 migrants landed on the southern Italian coast, with many of them potentially working illegally on farms through caporalato, a widespread system of illegal recruitment of underpaid farm labor run by Italian agrimafias. To test this hypothesis, this paper evaluates the causal effects of the 2011 migration wave on reported labor productivity focusing ...
2018| Stefan Seifert, Marica Valente
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Weekly Report
Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has remained high. These are the findings ...
24.05.2018| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka
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Weekly Report
This study investigates professional social mobility, i.e., changes in one’s occupational status compared to that of their parents. It uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) on middle-aged, western Germans who were born between 1939 and 1971. On average, social status relative to parents has increased (absolute social mobility). However, looking at ...
24.05.2018| Sandra Bohmann, Nicolas Legewie
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DIW Weekly Report 21 / 2018
Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has remained high. These are the findings ...
2018| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
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Refereed essays Web of Science
By using estimates from a Demographically-Scaled Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (DQUAIDS), we investigate how the German car fuels tax changes the private households’ CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce emissions and vertical equity, which refers to the idea that people with a greater ability ...
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Resource and Energy Economics
44 (2016), S. 206-233
| Dragana Nikodinoska, Carsten Schröder