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SOEPpapers 753 / 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects (labor supply) of the wage gap? We ...
2015| Patricia Gallego-Granados, Johannes Geyer
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Using German panel data and plant closure as an exogenous unemployment shock, we show that job loss affects individual risk-taking in very heterogeneous ways: Those who experience involuntary job loss and quick reemployment report a significant rise in risk aversion. We also find some evidence that individuals who stay unemployed report a drop in risk aversion. In addition, we observe strong...
20.05.2015| Clemens Hetschko (Free University Berlin)
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DIW Europe Lecture
The DIW Europe Lecture is a lecture series by leading policy-makers and academics on the future of Europe. The series aims at fostering and informing the debate on key European policy issues, and at bringing this debate to the heart of Germany's policy-making in Berlin.
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the American Academy in Berlin cordially invite you to the...
29.05.2015| Lawrence H. Summers
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Event
Leibniz ScienceCampusBerlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) Forum
The Forum will be the first important step to bring together all BCCP fellows in law and economics who are engaged in the activities of the science campus. We will have the opportunity to learn about each other’s research during short presentations by the different partner institutions followed by open discussion. The...
19.05.2015
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Report
doi:10.5684/soep.v30
Last December we released an initial version of the 1984 to 2013 waves of the SOEP data (doi:10.5684/soep.v30beta). The new sample M, comprising around 2,700 migrant households, was added to the SOEP in 2013. This addition focuses on immigration to Germany since 1995, and it not only more than doubles the number of immigrants in the SOEP but also closes a gap in the population ...
11.05.2015
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
This paper investigates the effects of global oil and food price shocks to consumer prices in Middle East-North African (MENA) countries using threshold cointegration methods. Oil and food price shocks increase domestic prices in the long run, whereby the impact of food prices dominates. While global prices are weakly exogenous, consumer prices respond to deviations from the equilibrium relationship. ...
In:
International Economics and Economic Policy
12 (2015), 1, S. 143-161
| Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The scapegoat theory of exchange rates (2 and 5) suggests that market participants may attach excessive weight to individual economic fundamentals, which are picked as “scapegoats” to rationalize observed currency fluctuations at times when exchange rates are driven by unobservable shocks. Using novel survey data that directly measure foreign exchange scapegoats for 12 exchange rates, we find empirical ...
In:
Journal of Monetary Economics
70 (2015), 1-21
| Marcel Fratzscher, Dagfinn Rime, Lucio Sarno, Gabriele Zinna
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10 pm and 5 am at off-premise outlets (e.g., gas stations, kiosks, supermarkets). We use rich monthly administrative data from a 70% random sample of all hospitalizations during the years 2007–2011 in Germany in order ...
In:
Journal of Public Economics
123 (2015), S. 55-77
| Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler
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SOEPpapers 744 / 2015
Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that individuals in both the UK and Germany ...
2015| Daniel Kuehnle, Christoph Wunder
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DIW Discussion Papers 1462 / 2015
One prediction of the calculus of voting is that electoral closeness positively affects turnout via a higher probability of one vote being decisive. I test this theory with data on all mayoral elections in the German state of Bavaria between 1946 and 2009. Importantly, I use constitutionally prescribed two-round elections to measure electoral closeness and thereby improve on existing work that mostly ...
2015| Felix Arnold