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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Unilateral carbon pricing raises concerns about carbon leakage, prompting calls for protecting exposed industries through either free allocations of emission permits or a carbon border adjustment mechanism. This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium trade model to evaluate the effects of these unilateral carbon pricing instruments. The model incorporates input-output linkages and firm...
15.01.2025| Robin Sogalla, DIW Berlin
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Research Project
The project deals with scientific questions on industrial transformation towards a climate-neutral and resilient economy, covering the entire breadth of this topic. Questions on industrial transformation in Germany and beyond are formulated with a view to the EU's energy and climate policy instruments. The approach applies scientific methods throughout.
The background to the project is the very...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The rapid loss of biodiversity and ongoing climate change are also the result of intensive agriculture. At the same time, they jeopardize agriculture and food security. The Leibniz Lab "Systemic Sustainability" brings together relevant knowledge in science and society on this fundamental challenge in order to promote the development and implementation of systemic solutions.
The current socio...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff...
31.01.2025| Marie Paul, University of Duisburg-Essen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper investigates how the number of brackets and the choice of upper cutoffs in grouped data affect the metric approximation of income and wealth. The literature currently lacks a definition of what should be considered too few brackets or too-low cut-offs. Using German survey data, we show that more than six (eight) brackets and an upper cut-off at the 95th (97th) percentile are sufficient to ...
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Survey Research Methods
18 (2024), 3, S. 251-261
| Maximilian Longmuir, Markus M. Grabka
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Evidence on how proximity to ethnic outgroups shapes attitudes toward immigration remains inconclusive. We suggest this may be driven, in part, by the fact that studies rarely account for the role of residential segregation. We argue that how the minority-share in an environment affects majority-group attitudes will depend on how segregated groups are from one another. To explore this, we undertake ...
In:
European Sociological Review
41 (2025), 4, S. 553–574
| James Laurence, Jan Goebel
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DIW Weekly Report 5/6 / 2025
Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of loneliness (aloneness, isolation, exclusion) as well as regional differences and high-risk groups. The results ...
2025| Theresa Entringer, Linda Kumrow, Barbara Stacherl
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SOEPpapers 1216 / 2024
This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers’ perceptions of gender norms on their employment attitudes and labor-supply expectations. We provide mothers of young children in Germany with information about the prevailing gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender norm as too conservative. Our randomized ...
2024| Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
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SOEPpapers 1217 / 2025
Men at the bottom quintile of the German male earnings distribution had lower average earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. What explains these diverging trends and how did they translate into changes in net income? Data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) reveal that the drop in bottom male earnings is mostly due to a decrease in work ...
2025| Eliana Coschignano, Robin Jessen
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...
29.01.2025| Annica Gehlen