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Externe Monographien
The present dissertation comprises three chapters on the direct and indirect effects of social policies on labor supply decisions of two exemplary groups of individuals with particularly low employment rates: mothers with young children and workers approaching the retirement age. The first chapter of my dissertation explores whether the abolishment of an early retirement program for women effectively ...
Berlin:
FU Berlin,
2017,
190 S.
| Clara Welteke
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DIW Economic Bulletin 45 / 2017
In spring 2013, youth unemployment in the EU peaked and then declined sharply. Yet at least one in every six members of the economically active population between age 15 and 24 in the EU is still unemployed, and the unemployment rate among young persons is still 2.5 times higher than that of adults. The present study shows how young people’s situation in the labor market has developed since 2013. The ...
2017| Karl Brenke
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Press Release
Boys consider themselves to be more gifted in mathematics than their grades indicate, whereas girls think their language skills are stronger. Differences in students’ self-evaluation of their skills are evident by the fifth grade and remain present throughout higher grades
Boys think higher of their math abilities in school than girls do – to an extent that is not justified by their actual ...
08.11.2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 46/47 / 2017
Due to increasing shares of renewable energies in electricity production, the cost-effective system integration of these installations is becoming more and more important. Technologies and locations are viewed as system-friendly when they are more cost-efficient and easier to integrate because they, unlike other installations, produce at times when electricity is more valuable. This report shows that ...
2017| Karsten Neuhoff, Nils May, Jörn Richstein
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DIW Economic Bulletin 46/47 / 2017
In recent years, German companies have invested more in research and development (R&D) abroad. After a prolonged plateau period, the proportion of investment abroad rose to around 35 percent; concurrently R&D expenditure in Germany has continued to rise sharply. Growth abroad did not occur at the expense of domestic research. Foreign companies in Germany have also invested more in R&D recently but ...
2017| Heike Belitz
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Research Project
The goal of this research project is to investigate the current and future usage of the electricity transmission grid in the context of the energy transformation. To this end, the project develops methods to allocate short- and long-term network costs based on the individual network usage. Specifically, it proposes algorithms for power flow allocation and carries out a systematical assessment and...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
While most students in Germany who obtain a university entrance qualification enroll in higher education, the decision to do so still depends on their socio-economic background. This difference remains even when grades, cognitive skills and other observable factors are considered. In Germany, eligible school-leavers whose parents hold a university degree are 20 percentage points more likely to...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Non-refereed Articles
This essay analyses universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services from an economic perspective focusing on universal ECEC approaches. First, it examines the effectiveness of ECEC expansions, reviewing research using quasi-experimental approaches. It then discusses the possible mechanisms underlying the measured effects. These are related to both direct effects from ECEC services on children ...
In:
Robert A. Scott, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Nancy Pinkerton (Eds.) ,
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource
Hoboken : Wiley
| C. Katharina Spieß
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper empirically examines reliance on collateral in different credit market segments—formal, semiformal and informal lending—of a developing rural financial market. Determinants of collateralization indicate that all three types of lenders price risk conventionally. Controlled for standard risk factors, however, formal lenders rely on collateral about 40 per cent more often than informal lenders. ...
In:
Economic Notes
46 (2017), 3, S. 587-632
| Carmen Kislat, Lukas Menkhoff, Doris Neuberger
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Press Release
The R&D expenditure of German companies abroad has more than doubled compared to 2003. At the same time, their domestic investments are increasing sharply – The majority of the investments can be attributed to the automotive engineering and pharmaceutical industries – The share of foreign companies in R&D investments in Germany is sinking.
In recent years, German companies have ...
22.11.2017