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Externe Working Papers
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various challenges due to correlated characteristics within social groups and endogenous group membership. We overcome ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2016,
39 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 10173)
| Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
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Report
2015 saw a number of important events which influenced the work of DIW Berlin and provoked exciting new research questions for our institute. The integration of refugees, the level of local investment in Germany, the adequacy of German schooling systems - these were just a few of the topics we worked on in the last year. Furthermore, 2015 marked the 90th anniversary of our institute, an opportunity ...
12.09.2016
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DIW Discussion Papers 1607 / 2016
This paper presents a novel theory of corruption in public procurement. It considers an agency setting of contract execution where the principal is a politician who can commit to a contract auditing policy. It is found that a benevolent politician, by choosing a sufficiently strict auditing, deters the contracting firm from padding costs, conversely, a selfish politician chooses a relatively lax auditing ...
2016| Olga Chiappinelli
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We examine the relationship between outcomes of securities fraud class action lawsuits (SFCAs) and corporate board turnover rates. Our results indicate that turnover rates for board members are higher when a firm settles a lawsuit than when a suit is dismissed. Outside director turnover is most sensitive to SFCA outcomes, perhaps reflecting reputational effects. Results demonstrate that involvement ...
In:
International Review of Law and Economics
48 (2016), S.14-25
| Christopher F. Baum, James G. Bohn, Atreya Chakraborty
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DIW Discussion Papers 1606 / 2016
The analysis of monetary developments have always been a cornerstone of the ECB’s monetaryanalysis and, thus, of its overall monetary policy strategy. In this respect, money demandmodels provide a framework for explaining monetary developments and assessing price stabilityover the medium term. It is a well-documented fact in the literature that, when interestrates are at the zero lower bound, the analysis ...
2016| Christian Dreger, Dieter Gerdesmeier, Barbara Roffia
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DIW Economic Bulletin 34/35 / 2016
In Germany, the majority of people tend to find work through friends, acquaintances, and relatives when they first enter the labor market or switch jobs. The same applies to immigrants and their offspring. Integrating refugees into the labor market is considered crucial to their overall integration into society, yet little is known about how they land their first jobs. The present paper attempts to ...
2016| Philipp Eisnecker, Diana Schacht
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DIW Economic Bulletin 34/35 / 2016
Non-compulsory educational programs including extracurricular school activities, child day care centers, and non-formal educational programs, such as sports or music activities outside of school, make an important contribution to social integration. But to what extent do children and their families actually make use of these voluntary programs? On the basis of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the ...
2016| C. Katharina Spieß, Franz Westermaier, Jan Marcus
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Report
Prof. Kroh, DIW Berlin analyzed 2013 survey data on refugees who, for the most part, came to Germany between 1990 and 2010. How many of those refugees were employed in Germany at the time of the survey?
In the group we analyzed, approximately two thirds of all male refugees reported finding a job within the first five years of their arrival in Germany. This share was considerably smaller among female ...
07.09.2016
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Report
Academic and vocational qualifications play a crucial role when it comes to successfully integrating refugees and other migrants into society. What qualifications did migrants already acquire in their country of origin and which did they obtain in Germany? And to what extent are qualifications gained abroad recognized in Germany? The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample shows that the majority of the migrant ...
07.09.2016
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Report
Whether they’re looking to participate in social life, enter the German labor market, or obtain relevant training certificates, learning German is a critical part of integration for the majority of refugees—and yet only a handful of studies have examined their language acquisition patterns and skill levels. The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample, which was collected by the Institute for Employment ...
07.09.2016