This paper analyzes the necessary local conditions required for the existence of positive spillovers from multinationals' entry and it consists of a unified study of absorptive capacities. We start from the idea that FDI speeds up the diffusion of technologies across countries. Yet, the question that arises is: to what extent are these advanced technologies absorbed and successfully internalized by ...
Abstract This talk gives an overview about the use of original surveys conducted among German politicians for the study of fiscal policy. The first study (Heinemann and Janeba, German Economic Review, 2011) uses a survey of members of the German Bundestag to understand the politicians’ subjective beliefs about the role of taxes for business location decisions. It is shown that ideology...
This paper examines teacher job mobility using matcher employee-employer panel data from Stockholm municipality upper secondary schools. I utilize the exogenous change in upper secondary school admission which led to the sharp reshuffling of students within the municipality. This quasi experimental set up provides a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between changes in student...
The new SOEPnewsletter 96/April 2012 is publishedWe provide information about: *** SOEP Data- The SOEP 1984-2010 data (v 27) - 2012 SOEP User Survey- Bugfixes in SOEP 1984-2010 data (v27)- FiD data now available*** Comment: New Data on Families in Germany (FiD)
Our SOEP colleague Thomas Siedler, Ph.D., was appointed to a W3 professorship at the University of Hamburg in the Department of Economics, focusing on microeconometrics. His position there begins April 1, 2012. He will remain closely associated with the SOEP and DIW Berlin and will continue collaborating on the BMBF-funded project BASE II (Berlin Aging Study II).
“Familien in Deutschland” (FiD) is a survey focusing on young families and families in challenging circumstances (low-income, single-parent, and large families). The FiD data are now available to the scientific community. The process of obtaining the data is fairly simple, although slightly more involved than for the SOEP data: additionally to the application form an abstract must be ...
This year's SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim Workshop "Längsschnittdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-ökonomischen Panel (SOEP)" will take place from June 18-20 (workshop held in German).
This year's SOEPcampus at datalab 2012@Universität Bielefeld "Analysepotentiale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten - Längsschnittliche und kontextbezogene Daten" will take place from September 24-26 (the workshop will be held in German).
In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the monthly growth rates of the prices and rents for flats in 26 largest German cities. Given the small time dimension, the forecasts are done in a panel-data format. In addition, we use panel models that account for spatial dependence between the growth rates of housing prices and rents. Using a quasi out-of-sample forecasting exercise, we find that both ...
