The Research Seminar on Environment, Resources and Climate Economics (RSERC) is jointly organized by DIW Berlin, TU Berlin, RWI Essen and MCC Berlin. It brings together environmental and resource economists from the Berlin and Potsdam universities and research institutions that discuss latest research by distinguished external scholars or by members of the group.
21.11.2014 14:00-17:3024.11.2014 09:00-12:30
Nicola Jentzsch, Senior Researcher at the Department Competition and Consumers, has been reappointed by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) as expert on the economics of cyber security and privacy. ENISA is an agency of the European Union, founded in 2004, with headquarters in Crete. The agency is tasked to advise the European Union in the critical area of cyber security. ...
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that the perception of the individual employment status depends on the surrounding unemployment rate. We argue ...
Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness are connected to the difficulty of reaching potential participants. Using the paradata of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper continues such research by revealing a strong link between respondent motivation and reported happiness. Analyses of responses by future ...
In diesem Beitrag wird der obere Rand der Einkommens· und Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland mit Daten des Sozio·oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) analysiert. In Anlehnung an das von Sen (1976) für die Armutsmessung vorgeschlagene Vorgehen werden zunächst unterschiedliche Schwellenwerte definiert, oberhalb derer eine Person zum reichen Teil der Gesellschaft gehört. Anschließend wird untersucht, wie viele ...
Die globale Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat verdeutlicht, dass enge Verflechtungen zwischen Real- und der Finanzwirtschaft bestehen. Darüber hinaus hat die Krise gezeigt, dass einzelwirtschaftliche Strukturen eine wichtige Rolle für die Stabilität der Gesamtwirtschaft spielen. In dieser Dissertation werden die Verflechtungen zwischen einzel- und gesamtwirtschaftlicher Ebene, sowie zwischen dem Finanzsektor ...
Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and exploit a natural experiment, i.e. the ...
