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Benefiting from Global Value Chains. A new look at Germany’s trade and innovation performance

Presentation: Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and IndustryComment: Roman Bertenrath, Head Research and Analysis, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, IW Köln ConsultModeration: Heino v. Meyer, OECD Berlin CentreWhat is Germany's position in global value chains (GVCs) and how is it changing? Dirk Pilat will present a new way of looking at trade relations...

From Fragmentation to Financial Integration in Europe

DIW Berlin and IMF cordially invite you to the presentation of the book:"From Fragmentation to Financial Integration in Europe" by Dr. Charles Enoch | Deputy Director, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department, and Dr. Jianping Zhou | Senior Economist, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets DepartmentAdress of Welcome:Dr. Simon Junker | Deputy Head of the Dpt. Forecasting and Economic Policy...

What happens if women disappear from the labor market? Occupational status of women at marriage in a modernizing society

joint with Ineke Maas & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen The nineteenth and twentieth centuries are an especially interesting period to investigate women's status attainment in Western societies because interesting and partly contrary developments took place. First, women increasingly withdrew from the labor market after marriage, possibly as a consequence of increasing prosperity that allowed families...

When parental background matters: the intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Abstract: This study presents an empirical analysis of intergenerational mobility in educational achievements of Italian immigrants in Germany. For this purpose a model of intergenerational human capital transmission is introduced and applied to the specific situation of immigrants and their offspring in the host country. The model is empirically tested by means of OLS and Probit estimation based...

Optimal Progressive Taxation and Education Subsidies in a Model of Endogenous Human Capital Formation

11th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference

The 11th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2014) will be held in Berlin, June 30 to July 1, 2014, at DIW Berlin and Hertie School of Governance. The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography,...

Strategic Reserve to Secure Electricity Market

There is an ongoing discussion about whether the German electricity market offers sufficient incentives for investment in power plants and for keeping them connected to the grid, thus ensuring sufficient security of supply. Recommendations for further securing power supply include payments, some of them comprehensive, to power plant operators - in addition to energy revenues and based on their generating ...

EU-MENA Electricity Cooperation: How to move forward with Lighthouse Projects?

It has become silent around the Desertec and Mediterranean Solar Plan. Yet, the increasing energy demand in North Africa and the Middle East do have implications for European energy security. There are good reasons to move forward with renewable energy and energy efficiency cooperation. What is the status quo of initiatives like the Mediterranean Solar Plan or the Desertec Industrial Initiative?...

Determinants of Trade with Solar Energy Technology Components: Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis

Studies analysing renewable energy (RE) market development usually investigate electricity capacity or investment. Characteristics, roles and determinants of trade with RE system components remain blurred. Policies are important in promoting RE utilization and innovation. Yet, their effect on determining exports remains ambiguous. The Porter hypothesis and the lead-market literature argue that environmental ...

Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows forworker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with non-employment as a possible outcome. Performing a thought experiment in which all offered or paid wages are subject ...