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Personnel news
We congratulate Johannes Seebauer on successfully defending his dissertation on November 19, 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics’ and he was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos.
We wish him much success and all the best for his future career!
11.10.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
We congratulate Mats Kröger on successfully defending his dissertation on 26 September 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Does a fair transition reduce efficiency? Essays on the distributional effects of energy and climate policy’ and he was supervised by Karsten Neuhoff and Chloé Le-Coq.
We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
11.10.2024
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
In this paper we document trends in inequality in earnings and disposable household income for men and women in Germany from 2001 to 2019. We find that males at the lower half of the earnings distribution have lower earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. Households and the welfare state has cushioned much---but not all---of the...
16.10.2024| Eliana Coschignano, RWI
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Typically, poverty risk is assessed at the household level, neglecting within-couple income inequality and the role of individual characteristics in vulnerability to income poverty. This paper uses SOEP data and a quasi-experimental event study design to investigate poverty dynamics within couples over an 8-year period around the first birth. It follows partnered women (N=1,174) and men (N=1,137)...
13.11.2024| Christina Siegert, University of Vienna
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
We study the economic consequences of stress-related occupational illnesses (burnout) using Swedish administrative data. Using a mover design, we find that high-burnout firms and stressful occupations universally raise burnout risk yet disproportionately impact low-stress-tolerance workers. Workers who burn out endure permanent earnings losses regardless of gender—while women are three times more...
11.12.2024| Dominik Wehr, Stockholm School of Economics
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper analyses trends in mortality inequality in 330 Chilean communes from 1990 to 2010 for different age groups and both genders. Chile had substantial inequalities in local-level mortality rates in 1990 but by 2010 these disparities had significantly decreased, especially among infants, children and the elderly. The only exception was Chilean men aged 20–39, for whom inequality in mortality ...
In:
Fiscal Studies
46 (2025), 1, S. 139-162
| Gedeão Locks
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Refereed essays Web of Science
A large body of literature highlights the benefits of being religious in terms of subjective well-being. We examine changes to these so-called religious well-being benefits during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and address the role of (formal and informal) social integration when explaining these changes. We empirically test two contrasting scenarios: The first scenario predicts ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
25 (2024), 103, 35 S.
| Jan‑Philip Steinmann, Hannes Kröger, Jörg Hartmann, Theresa M. Entringer
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1–2% of the work force starts a business in any given year. Yet entrepreneurs, particularly innovative entrepreneurs, are vital to the competitiveness of the economy and may establish new jobs. The gains of entrepreneurship are only realized, however, if the business environment is receptive to innovation. ...
In:
IZA World of Labor
(2024), 8, 10 S.
| Alexander S. Kritikos
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Non-refereed Articles
Climate policy aims to reduce emissions by redirecting investment from emission-intensive toward carbon-neutral assets. One key instrument, carbon pricing, guides investors and asset managers by lowering the return of fossil fuel-related assets. This chapter reviews three key mechanisms on how sustainable finance can support climate policy: first, providing investors with the necessary information ...
In:
Karen Wendt, Bernd Villhauer (Eds.) ,
Sustainable Wealth Management : Directing Capital Towards Sustainability
SpringerLink
S. 23-44
| Kai Lessmann, Franziska Schütze, Angelika von Dulong, Daniel Engler, Gunnar Gutsche, Achim Hagen, Christian Klein, Andrew McConnell, Oliver Schenker, Marie Theres von Schickfus, Boyan Yanovski
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Conversational AI models are becoming increasingly popular and are about to replace traditional search engines for information retrieval and product discovery. This raises concerns about monetization strategies and the potential for subtle consumer manipulation. Companies may have financial incentives to steer users toward search results or products in a conversation in ways that are unnoticeable...
08.01.2025| Tobias Werner, Max Planck Institute