This paper proposes a new way to clarify the relationship between the sovereign-bank nexus and an individual bank’s home bias by employing stress test data from Europe’s most important banks. We use the individual bank’s likelihood to fail in achieving a minimum capital ratio threshold as the dependent variable in a cross-sectional logistic regression approach and compute marginal effects. In further ...
On October 10, 2023, the research project MINDSET_Clean_H2 organised a workshop about the hydrogen economy in Germany and France at TU Munich. Researchers as well as stakeholders from industry participated. Franziska Holz and Lukas Barner represented the project team from DIW Berlin and presented recent research results on the availability of water for electrolysis in Germany. The research project ...
Strategic Controlling Unit Team
The German labor market has undergone profound changes over the last decades. For a long time, the debate on structural change focused on the shift from manufacturing industries to services. This Weekly Report highlights that labor market changes are attributable to three developments: In addition to structural change, i.e., sectoral shifts, key drivers are an occupational shift toward service-related ...
[English subtitles, German language video] The Socio-Economic Panel is one of the most extensive and longest-running social science panel studies worldwide. Every year, the SOEP team currently surveys around 30,000 people in almost 22,000 households. “We want to understand human life,” says SOEP Director Sabine Zinn. “We want to know how social groups live together and find the connection between...
Increasing the employment rate of older people has the potential to significantly counteract the skills shortage and strengthen the financial basis of social security. Empirical analyses show that this potential is particularly high among women nearing retirement, who often work part-time or in mini-jobs, or are unemployed. The aim of this project is to investigate: a) why employment rates are...
Increasing the employment rate of older people has the potential to significantly counteract the skills shortage and strengthen the financial basis of social security. Empirical analyses show that the potential is high among retirees after reaching the regular retirement age, as they continue to work only to a limited extent. Increasing the employment rate of older people has the potential to...
