Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993-2010 we find that recent reforms in Germany increased work incentives at the extensive margin measured by the ...
This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the socialist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We show that there are significant differences between former GDR and FRG residents regarding important attributes of personality (particularly the locus of control, neuroticism, conscientiousness, ...
The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. To sustain the German pension system, legal retirement age is increased step by step to 67 years. This raises questions about how to enable and motivate older individuals to work that long. Hence, it is important to understand whether they represent a homogeneous group that can be addressed through specific ...
To access the program, type the command "ssc describe splitit" from within Stata and follow the instructions. To download the auxiliary test data you have to set the Stata working directory to a directory where you have rights to write to. See the help file of SPLITIT for a detailed description of the functions and examples of how to use the command.
To access the program, type the command "ssc describe combival" from within Stata and follow the instructions. To download the auxiliary test data you have to set the Stata working directory to a directory where you have rights to write to. See the help file of COMBIVAL for a detailed description of the functions and examples of how to use the command.
The Dispatch and Investment Evaluation Tool with Endogenous Renewables (DIETER) has been developed in the research project StoRES to study the role of power storage and other flexibility options in a greenfield setting with high shares of renewables. The model determines cost-minimizing combinations of power generation, demand-side management, and storage capacities and their respective dispatch. DIETER ...
Research shows that total factor productivity (TFP) growth is weak in European countries. This is inter alia attributed to the fact that substantial TFP growth is limited to a few industries. Because TFP growth is typically understood as technological progress, it is concluded that technology diffusion between sectors in Europe is hampered. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine ...
A workshop ot the research project Municipal infrastructure companies against the background of energy policy and demographic change (KOMIED) - Empirical analyses using micro level data of the energy, water and waste sector
