in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2013"The Quality of Early Education and Care Must Be Improved". Five Questions to C. Katharina Spieß
by Uwe Kunert and Heike Link in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2013.A quantitatively and qualitatively efficient transport infrastructure is a fundamental requirement for the success and prosperity of the German economy, with its high degree of labor division, its many exchange relationships, and its central European location. The transport infrastructure represents a considerable economic capital stock ...
Investments in education are of great importance for the competitiveness of the German economy. In particular, early childhood education programs promise high returns - because children can benefit from them even years later and find it easier to acquire new skills. These are the results of research in the field of the economics of education in recent years, at least when high quality programs are ...
A quantitatively and qualitatively efficient transport infrastructure is a fundamental requirement for the success and prosperity of the German economy, with its high degree of labor division, its many exchange relationships, and its central European location. The transport infrastructure represents a considerable economic capital stock with gross fixed assets of 778 billion euros. This corresponds ...
Kati Schindler, Acting Head of the Department of Development and Security, was accepted into the Mentoring Programme of the Leibniz Association. The programme aims at supporting female researchers in obtaining a professorship or a leading position in the private sector or public administration. Specifically, the mentoring programme helps to strengthen academic networks and acquire soft skills.
The newly founded Development Economics Network Berlin (DENeB) organizes the new Seminar Series for Development Economics in Berlin. The seminar takes place every second Thursday at 5:30 pm at DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Room, 5th floor). The first meeting will take place on 24 October 2013 with Rajshri Jayaraman (ESMT) presenting her current work. All information on the seminar series and the current ...
There is a contentious debate about the exclusionary effects of upfront payments to be made by manufacturers to place their products on retailers' shelves. Analyzing a two-stage bargaining process with one downstream retailer and a pool of upstream manufacturers, we find that upfront payments lead to a smaller assortment if the retailer's bargaining power is high enough and the suppliers' products ...
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well-being, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction ...
We demonstrate that interpersonal comparisons lead to "keeping up with the Joneses"-behavior. Using annual household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the causal effect of changes in reference consumption, defined as the consumption level of all households who are perceived to be richer, on household savings and consumption. When controlling for own income, an increase in reference ...
