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Press Release
When mothers with young children contemplate employment, a decisive factor is whether day care is available. Extensive research has been carried out on the subject. However, to date, it has failed to address the extent to which the quality of day care affects maternal employment decisions. We examine this research question using data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and the extension sample ...
21.05.2014
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SOEPpapers 655 / 2014
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly ...
2014| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing
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SOEPpapers 656 / 2014
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and earnings than natives. We study whether the option to naturalize improves immigrant assimilation. The empirical analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, acountry with a weak record of immigrant integration. Using discontinuities in the reforms' eligibility rules, we find few returns of citizenship for men, but substantial ...
2014| Christina Gathmann, Nicolas Keller
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We analyse the impacts of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model and a rich data set that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. We account for cohort effects in ...
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Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
13 (2014), 2, S. 172-209
| Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
To date, the distributive implications of incentive regulation on electricity transmission networks have not been explicitly studied in the literature. More specifically, the parameters that a regulator might use to achieve distributive efficiency under price-cap regulation have not yet been identified. To discern these parameters is the motivation for the research presented in this paper. We study ...
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Energy Policy
69 (2014), S. 189-204
| Luis Ángel Herrera, Juan Rosellon
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
(joint with Maria Metzing, DIW Berlin/SOEP)The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is currently creating a new Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) while at the same time increasing the size of the core SOEP. Starting with the 2012 survey, a CAPI version of the Day Reconstruction Method (adaption of DRM by Kahneman et al. 2004 and a replication of 2009 PSID's supplement on Disability and Use of Time;...
14.05.2014| David Richter
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of early retirement disincentives that have been introduced in Germany and investigates the distributional and welfare implications. Therefore, we set up a detailed model of the German social security and tax system with special focus on the PAYG-pension system. Building on the fact that the institutional changes were phased in - impacting birth cohorts to a...
21.05.2014| Daniel Kemptner
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BeNA - Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung
Abstract: Miriam Gensowski proposes a model of educational choice in which the formation of wage expectations accounts for anticipated occupational choices as well as education levels. Occupations are characterized as bundles of tasks that are explicitly linked to multi-dimensional abilities and personality traits. These traits are measured in Project Talent data that I augment with information...
21.05.2014| Miriam Gensowski(University of Copenhagen)
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Non-refereed Articles
This paper summarizes the findings of an analysis of scientific infrastructure service providers (mainly from Germany but also from other European countries). These service providers are evaluated with regard to their potential services for the management of publication-related research data in the field of social sciences, especially economics. For this purpose we conducted both desk research and ...
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Liber Quarterly
23 (2014), 4, S. 336-357
| Sven Vlaeminck, Gert G. Wagner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The simultaneous estimation method has overtaken the sequential approach as the preferred estimation method for hybrid discrete choice models. Notwithstanding, the computational cost of the simultaneous estimation can be prohibitive when models become more involved, and in such cases sequential estimation can still be a potent option. In previous work a theoretical analysis was conducted that led to ...
In:
Transportation Research Record
2429 (2014), 1, S. 51-58
| Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke, Juan de Dios Ortúzar