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Extent and Effects of Employees in Germany Forgoing Vacation Time

Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent of the overall volume of vacation entitlement not being used. This figure is corroborated by data from the German Socio-Economic ...

German Economic Performance

Unfortunately, this event is already at capacity. No further registrations will be accepted. DIW Berlin together with its partners is pleased to invite to a special extended session of Berlin Lunchtime Meeting.Chair: Heino von Meyer, Head, OECD Berlin Centre10.00What are the main challenges for Germany?Andreas Wörgötter, Head of Division, Economics Department, OECD 10.10The labour...

Incumbency, Divided Government, Partisan Politics and Council Size: Essays in Local Political Economics ; Dissertation

Ethnic Conflict and Job Separations

We study the effect of the second Intifada - a violent conflict between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors which erupted in September 2000 - and the ensuing demonstrations of Arab citizens of Israel on labor market outcomes of Arabs relative to those of Jewish Israelis. The analysis relies on a large matched employer-employee dataset, focusing on firms that in the pre-Intifada period hired both Arabs ...

WEIS 2012

The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, identified market failures...

The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Using representative income and time-use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyze their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach that relaxes some of the strong assumptions underlying both the standard opportunity cost approach and the housekeeper ...

Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework

The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A conditional efficiency framework is ...

Nash Networks with Imperfect Reliability and Heterogeneous Players

This paper combines the imperfect reliability model of Bala and Goyal [2000b] with the heterogeneous player model of Galeotti et al. [2006]. We compare existence, characterization and efficiency results in the resulting framework with the results in other frameworks allowing for imperfect reliability or heterogeneity. Specifically, we compare our work with the framework of Haller and Sarangi [2005] ...

Household Survey Panels: How Much Do Following Rules Affect Sample Size?

In household panels, typically all household members are surveyed. Because household composition changes over time, so-called following rules are implemented to decide whether to continue surveying household members who leave the household (e.g. former spouses/partners, grown children) in subsequent waves. Following rules have been largely ignored in the literature leaving panel designers unaware of ...

The Justice of Earnings in Dual-Earner Households

Over recent decades, the rise in female labor market participation and the increase in "atypical" employment arrangements have brought about a steady decline in traditional "male breadwinner" households and an increasing number of dual-earner households. Against this backdrop, the present paper investigates how different household contexts' ranging from traditional "male breadwinner" households to ...