Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique increase in self-employment in Germany ...
Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio-economic background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique increase in self-employment in ...
Im Rahmen des Projekts DEFINE untersuchen wir die Integration künftiger Elektrofahrzeugflotten in das deutsche Stromsystem für verschiedene Szenarien der Jahre 2020 und 2030 bei unterschiedlichen Ladestrategien. Wir verwenden ein numerisches Kraftwerkseinsatzmodell mit einer Unit‐ Commitment‐Formulierung, bei dem die gesamten Kraftwerkseinsatzkosten über ein komplettes Jahr minimiert werden. Elektrofahrzeugspezifische ...
The “Inclusion of Consumption in EU ETS” is currently gaining traction as a new approach to address carbon leakage and improve the effectiveness of the EU ETS, within legal and political constraints. It complements the current approach of coverage of emissions by upstream installations where trade exposed sectors at risk of leakage, such as steel and clinker, receive free allowances. In order to ensure ...
This paper investigates whether there are bubbles in stock prices. We do this using a previously studied structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model claiming to distinguish fundamental and non-fundamental shocks to real stock prices. TheSVAR model relies on an identification restriction in order to correctly label the shocks. We test this restriction by means of a Markov switching-SVAR (MS-SVAR) ...
Past studies found considerable impact of parental background on educational decisions, especially in countries with early educational tracking. Our knowledge is however still limited regarding its impact on educational decisions later on in life, like the transition to tertiary education. Do all pupils who reach the highest secondary school track face the same opportunities to go to the...
