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Research Project
In this project, we carry out model-based economic analyses of different strategies for renewable energy integration in Germany, with a focus on storage technologies. Quantitative, numerical power market models are used to analyse the demand for storage capacities, the interaction between storage and transmission expansion, and the use of storage in oligopolistic markets. Moreover, we investigate...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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DIW Discussion Papers 1184 / 2012
Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique increase in self-employment in Germany ...
2012| Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Rusakova
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Report
After sending out the SOEP data version 27 (Data 1984-2010) in some datasets bugs have been reported.COGDJ, SOEPlong and some labels in the $HBRUTTO files are affected.For more information please see the site Known Bugs/Fixes. We provide fixes for download. Please contact our hotline soepmail@diw.de to get a personalized link.
20.01.2012
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Report
Who wants to contribute may apply from now on!The research infrastructure SOEP at DIW Berlin establishes a longitudinal Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) for particularly innovative research projects. The SOEP-IS should be primarily available for methodical and thematic research that involves too much of a risk of high non-response rates for the long-term SOEP study. Any scientist who wants to contribute ...
20.01.2012
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Seminar
Abstract: Does immigration accelerate sectoral change from low- to high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across sectors, predicts that...
25.01.2012| Sebastian Braun (IFW Kiel)
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
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Empirical Economics
43 (2012), 3, S. 1143-1169
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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DIW Discussion Papers 1187 / 2012
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 ...
2012| Michael Zschille
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
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] ...
In:
International Game Theory Review
13 (2011), 2, S.181-194
| Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard, Sudipta Sarangi
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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 ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
5 (2011), 2, S. 53-61
| Matthias Schonlau, Nicole Watson, Martin Kroh
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
30 (2012), 2, S. 219-232
| Stefan Liebig, Carsten Sauer, Jürgen Schupp