Abstract: Labour market flexibilisation has long been considered a key policy tool for increasing employment. However, sceptics argue that workers suffer from labour market flexibilisation. While empirically investigating the psychological costs of temporary contracts, we question this argument for one flexibilisation instrument. We test whether temporary contracts are associated with different...
Top-Level Management in Large Companies: Persistent Male-Dominated Structures Leave Little Room for WomenBy: Elke Holst, Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2012.The aim of recruiting more women into top-level management positions in business is attracting increasing interest among the general public and policy-makers alike. Calls for a quota for women and the widely publicized appointment ...
This project entails two parts. The first part is entitled “Auctioning Identity Data: Experimental Evidence” and presents an experimental reverse Vickrey auction of personal type information that allows social comparisons. In this auction, it is analyzed how information sensitivity influences price-setting behavior of bidders. The result shows that negative sensitivity increases ask prices for...
By 2011 little is known about the economic rationale of public fast chargers for electric vehicles (EV). This paper aims at providing an insight into the business case of this technology in a case study for Germany. The estimated Return on Investment (ROI) of a public fast charging station constitutes the main contribution. Potential users and organization structures are investigated as well as different ...
Abstract: When prices change, consumers can respond by changing their spending patterns. In this paper, we estimate and utilise a consumer demand model of the Quadratic Almost Ideal (QUAIDS) form to analyse consumer demand in Mexico, and to explore some implications for indirect tax policy. The model covers virtually all categories of spending and is estimated using household expenditure and...
