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Interview
Mr. Brenke, you’ve been conducting research on working from home in Germany. DIW Berlin produced a similar study two years ago. What distinguishes the recent study from the previous one?
The main difference is that we now have data on how many people would actually be able to work from home, given their employment conditions. We didn’t have this information last time. Of course, someone ...
29.02.2016
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Report
The majority of OECD member states promote companies’ research and development (R&D) activities by providing project funding. Recently, in many countries, tax incentives have also begun to play an increasingly important role. The present study examines the level of R&D support in 18 OECD countries and explores how efficient the system of funding actually is. The main findings show that ...
29.02.2016
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 300: Series D - Variable Description and Coding / 2016
2016| Markus M. Grabka
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SOEPpapers 819 / 2016
In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the number of cigarettes consumed daily between Turkish immigrants and Germans into a component reflecting differences ...
2016| Rui Dang
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SOEPpapers 820 / 2016
In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality of their children's first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage, permanent position and full-time employment is examined. The results show a negative correlation between fathers' ...
2016| Maria Kleverbeck, Michael Kind
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DIW Economic Bulletin 12/13 / 2016
As well as implementing the common monetary policy, the national central banks (NCBs) which, together with the European Central Bank (ECB) form the Eurosystem, are also responsible for performing a range of national tasks. Among other things, these include the management of their financial assets portfolios. To ensure that this function does not interfere with the implementation of the single monetary ...
2016| Philipp König, Kerstin Bernoth
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DIW Economic Bulletin 12/13 / 2016
2016
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DIW Discussion Papers 1562 / 2016
In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy. These results also hold for the subsample of randomized experiments (RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly heterogeneous: Financial education is less effective for lowincome clients as well as in low and lower-middle ...
2016| Tim Kaiser, Lukas Menkhoff
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Externe Monographien
Hybrid choice models with latent variables aim to capture unobserved attributes of the individuals and the alternatives, such as attitudes, perceptions, etc., increasing the predictive capability and realism of discrete choice models. Even though, their fundaments are fairly well-established, some technical and theoretical issues have not been extensively analyzed, leading to controversies in the literature. ...
Berlin:
TU Berlin,
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X, 150 S.
| Francisco J. Bahamonde Birke
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DIW Discussion Papers 1561 / 2016
Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student performance. However, treatment effects ...
2016| Mathias Huebener, Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus