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The Effect of Involuntary Maternal Job Loss on Children's Behaviour and Non-cognitive Skills

This paper uses propensity score methods to analyse the effect of involuntary maternal job loss on children's non-cognitive skills. My analyses are based on a rich and nationwide random sample, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) that includes information about maternal job loss and child behaviour and non-cognitive skills, in addition to a rich conditioning set. The results show that maternal ...

Three Topics in Agriculture: Private Quality Standards, Marketing Channels, and Biochar ; Dissertation

Public investment in the Berlin state budget: education and transport are falling short

In Berlin, as elsewhere, public investment is critical to an individual’s life satisfaction and a prerequisite for positive economic development. There are many fields of activity for public investment. For instance, the tasks for Berlin include a sustainable transport concept that maintains and develops the local passenger transport network, a sustainable cycle concept, new schools need to be ...

The Berlin labor market since 2005: strong employment growth yet unemployment remains high, incomes low

Over the past ten years, the number of employed in Berlin has increased more dynamically than it has anywhere else in the country, resulting in a decrease in unemployment. But because the city’s potential labor force has also experienced considerable growth, Berlin’s unemployment rate remains well above the national average. Since jobs requiring intermediate qualifications have become more ...

Berlin: a hub for startups but not (yet) for fast-growing companies

Over the last 20 years, Berlin has developed into Germany’s self-employment capital and into a startup hub. A large number of innovative companies have been launched. The city has become an internationally renowned magnet for creative startups. Mainly using official statistical data, the present report shows that the startup trend in Berlin is above average compared to other major cities ...

Julian Baumann has successfully defended his dissertation

Julian Baumann has successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Potsdam. The dissertation with the title “Four Essays in Innovation and Industrial Economics" was supervised by Alexander Kritikos (DIW, University of Potsdam) and Marco Caliendo (University of Potsdam). The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulates him on his success!

Conference review: „Regulatory challenges in digital markets: privacy“

Titled “Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: Privacy”, the annual conference of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies” (BCCP) took place on June 17 in Humboldt University Berlin’s Senate Hall. The four panels of the conference featured several prominent figures from science and politics, including Hal Varian (Chief Economist, Google), Gerd ...

Refuting the Cliché of the Distrustful Manager

Although trust is fundamental to social and organizational functioning, the media often portray managers as distrusting, suggesting that distrust of others is a typical personality variable of successful leaders. This study puts the cliché of the distrustful manager to the test. Both self-report data (N = 32,926) and behavioral data (N = 924) from the German Socio-Economic Panel refute this cliché. ...

On the Exposure of the BRIC Countries to Global Economic Shocks

The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the last years, despite the modest recovery in advanced economies. The higher divergence of business cycles is closely linked to the Chinese transformation. During the crisis, the Chinese fiscal stimulus prevented ...

Local Loop Unbundling in the UK Does Not Affect Broadband Penetration - but It Does Lead to Better Service

Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up a distribution network means ...