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SOEPpapers 443 / 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) indicate that maternal majority as well as paternal minority ...
2012| Simone Schüller
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 16 / 2012
In this Policy Briefing, we review the available terrorism databases by focusing on their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. This serves as a guide for policymakers and academic researchers alike. The rapid and accelerating development of security economics has generated great demand for more and better data, to accommodate the empirical research agenda. We also discuss data shortages and ...
2012| Christos Kallandranis, Konstantinos Drakos
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SOEPpapers 444 / 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and the devaluation of women's work, ...
2012| Anne Busch, Elke Holst
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 17 / 2012
Yearly revenues from transnational criminal activity account for USD 1 to 1.6 trillion, and a wide variety of methods is employed to transfer those revenues across borders and launder it. The specific type of crime largely determines the choice of methods. Terrorists, for example, use both "legal" as well as illegal activity, in particular drug dealing, to raise funds, and largely employ the formal ...
2012| Stefan Haigner, Friedrich Schneider, Florian Wakolbinger
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 18 / 2012
International policy standards in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing are set forth by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations on Anti-money laundering (AML)/Combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) policies. While those standards are very high and require, for example, financial businesses to strictly pursue the "know your customer principle", countries compliance ...
2012| Stefan Haigner, Friedrich Schneider, Florian Wakolbinger
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Event
AbstractThis presentation deals with a simple, but nonetheless important question: Is it possible to combat with the challenge of global climate change through innovation and technology transfer even without a global treaty? Or do carbon leakage and the rebound-effect imply that it is possible to take advantage of technological improvements under the umbrella of a global arrangement only? ...
14.05.2012| Prof. Dr. Gunter Stephan, Universität Bern
Further information: http://www.vwl.unibe.ch/staff/index_ger.html?Nr=39
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Seminar
Knut Einar Rosendahl from Statistics Norway is a well-renowned economist and researcher on international energy resource markets and climate economics. Since the 1990s he has contributed significantly to the modeling literature of natural gas and crude oil markets. More recently, he has focused on the economic analysis of climate change and climate policy. His talk will present a combination...
11.05.2012| Knut Einar Rosendahl
Weitere Informationen:
http://www.ssb.no/english/research/people/ker/index.html
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The aim of this paper is to investigate how occupational prospects affect first-birth decisions of men and women. Contrasting the continental conservative German welfare state with the liberal market economy of the UK, the focus of analyses rests on how welfare state alignment affects fertility rationales in the context of either promising or bleak occupational prospects. The results based on data ...
In:
Demographic Research
26 (2012), S. 253-292
| Christian Schmitt
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
The standard analysis of treatment effects only considers the gross benefit of treatment and does not consider the cost as perceived by the agents or the surplus arising from participation in programs (the private subjective evaluation of the program). This paper extends the analysis of Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2005) to identify parameters measuring the costs and net gains of arising from...
09.05.2012| Philipp Eisenhauer (ZEW Mannheim)
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Economic Bulletin
Engineers in Germany: No Shortage in SightBy: Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2012.There is no let up in complaints about a potential lack of engineers in Germany. The Association of German Engineers (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, VDI) recently declared that because of the high average age of engineers working in Germany (50 to 51), there will soon be a huge demand for a new generation of engineers. ...
04.05.2012