In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the last two years of the observation period ...
Unfortunately we have a little delay in the documentation of the current data distribution, SOEP v30, in our respective documentation systems, SOEPinfo and SOEPinfo v2. We would like to draw your attention to the following documents that will allow for an easier workflow with this data distribution: Documentation of generated variables (including biography and life history data) Item correspondence ...
This article sheds light on the interaction of media, economic actors, and economic experts. Based on a unique data set of 86,000 news items rated by professional analysts of Media Tenor International and survey data, we first analyze the overall tone of the media, consumers’, firms’, and economic experts’ opinions on the state and outlook of the economy. Second, we assess the protagonist’s ability ...
This paper exploits discontinuities induced by earnings caps for social security contributions (SSC) in Germany to analyse the effect of SSC on gross labour earnings. Empirical evidence is based on two complementary approaches utilising two administrative data sets. First, employment responses to SSC at the intensive margin are identified by a modified bunching approach that is applied to kinks in ...
This paper introduces a new and comprehensive dataset on “alternative” banks in EU and OECD countries. Alternative banks (e.g. ethical, social or sustainable banking) experienced a recent increase in media interest and have been hailed as an answer to the financial crisis but no research exists on their stability. This paper studies whether alternative banks differ from conventional banks in terms ...
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Keynote by Ross Baldick of the University of Texas at the Berlin Conference on Energy and Electricity Economics (BELEC 2015) "Cross-Border Coordination for Sustainable Energy Security – Theory and Policy Lessons from Different Sectors"
Humboldt Lecture by Steven A. Gabriel of the University of Maryland at the Berlin Conference on Energy and Electricity Economics (BELEC 2015) "Cross-Border Coordination for Sustainable Energy Security – Theory and Policy Lessons from Different Sectors"
