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  • June 22, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting

    Speaker: Prof. Tor Eriksson, Aarhus University
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • June 21, 2012

    Seminar

    Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom

    Speaker: Charles Sprenger, Stanford University
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:15-17:45

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  • June 21, 2012

    Seminar

    Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom

    Speaker: Charles Sprenger, Stanford University
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:15-17:45

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  • June 20, 2012

    Seminar

    The effect of public sector employment on wage distribution compression: An analysis of the German private-public wage gap 1984 to 2010
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Miriam Reuschel (Universität Potsdam)
    Location: Freie Universität Berlin
    Raum 315
    Garystr. 20
    14195 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.30 pm

    Abstract: The tasks of the public sector as an employer in a welfare state are twofold. First, the public sector has to provide services, which are regarded as indispensable for society. Here, the public sector competes for qualified staff with the private sector. In order to attract qualified personnel the public sector competes with a package, often comprised off lower remuneration accompanied ...

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  • June 18 - 22, 2012

    Graduate Center Masterclasses

    Advanced Operations Research

    Speaker: Dr. Jeremy Eckhause, University of Maryland
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 09:00-18:00

    June 18-20, 09:00-18:00, Room 52010June 21-22, 09:00-18:00, Room 22008

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  • June 18 - 20, 2012

    SOEPcampus

    SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim 2012
    Workshop "Längsschnittdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)"

    Location: Universität Mannheim

    This year's SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim Workshop "Längsschnittdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-ökonomischen Panel (SOEP)" will take place from June 18-20 (workshop held in German).

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  • June 18 - 22, 2012

    Conference

    Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics 2012

    We are pleased to announce that the Kuhmo Nectar Conference and Summer School on Transportation Economics: Annual conference of the ITEA will be held in Berlin, Germany June 18-22, 2012.The three-day Summer School is held on June 18-20, just before the Conference. It provides a condensed programme giving an introduction to academic research in transport economics including recent advances. The ...

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  • June 13, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Socioeconomic status, Parenting practices, and Conscientiousness in Early Childhood
    Socioeconomic status, Parenting practices, and Conscientiousness in Early Childhood

    Speaker: Till Kaiser (Universität Bielefeld)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    The role of personality traits in the production of social inequality has increasingly been the subject of sociological inquiry. Conscientiousness, in particular, has proven to be an important predictor of educational achievement and occupational attainment. The importance of conscientiousness in predicting unequal outcomes in the life course leads to the question of whether differences in this ...

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  • June 13, 2012

    Seminar

    Sorting of Skill over Time: Evidence from Sweden 1986-2008?
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Erik Lindqvist (SSE) (with Christina Håkanson and Jonas Vlachos)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.00 - 7.30 pm

    Abstract: A theoretical literature argues that technological change and globalization increase the sorting of workers by skill to firms. However, empirical studies on sorting have been constrained by a lack of measures of skill that are comparable over time. In this paper, we match information on cognitive and non-cognitive skills from the military enlistment for 25 cohorts of Swedish men ...

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  • June 8, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Women life-cycle labour suply: incentives and responses

    Speaker: Monica Costa Dias, The Institute For Fiscal Studies, UK
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    AbstractWe develop a life-cycle model of woman's labour supply, human capital formation and savings for welfare-to-work and tax policies' evaluation. Women's decisions are formalised in a dynamic and uncertain environment. The model includes a detailed characterisation of the tax system and of the dynamics of family formation while explicitly considering the determinants of employment and ...

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  • June 8, 2012

    Event

    Discussion Appointment with Prof. Ralf Brüggemann

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann, Univerisät Konstanz
    Time: 09:00-12:00

    Prof. Dr. Ralf Brüggemann from Universität Konstanz will visit Berlin on June 7/8, 2012. On June 7, he will hold a seminar at FU on the topic "External Information and Monetary Policy Transmission in New EU Member States: Results from FAVAR Models". On June 8, he will visit DIW Graduate Center. If you would like to meet him for individual research discussion, please contact Yun ...

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  • June 6, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Effects of introducing a general interest barrier - Evidence from the German corporate tax reform 2008

    Speaker: Hermann Buslei, Martin Simmler
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    In this study we investigate the impact of the thin capitalization rule (TCR) introduced in Germany in 2008 on firms; capital structure, investment and profitability. Since all firms are better off by avoiding the TCR, this means analyzing firms; behavior to avoid the TCR. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses in the regulation using a difference-in-difference ...

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  • June 6 - 7, 2012

    Graduate Center Masterclasses

    Using duration models for public policy evaluation

    Speaker: John Ham, University of Maryland
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 09:00-12:00,14:00-18:00 (Wed)
    14:30-16:30 (Thu)

    09:00-12:00 (Wed, Room 5.2.010)14:00-18:00 (Wed, Room 5.2.010)14:30-16:30 (Thu, Room 2.2.008)

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  • June 1, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Smoking Bans, Cigarette Prices and Life Satisfaction

    Speaker: Alois Stutzer, Universität Basel
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • June 1, 2012

    Seminar

    Understanding the Incentives of Commission Motivated Agents

    Speaker: Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:15-17:45

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  • May 30, 2012

    Seminar

    Every Man for Himself! Gender, Norms and Survival in Maritime Disasters
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Mikael Elinder, Uppsala University
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of ‘women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning three centuries, covering the fate of over 15,000 individuals of more than 30 ...

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  • May 30, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Die Analyse von Paneldaten in der deutschsprachigen empirischen Soziologie
    Die Analyse von Paneldaten in der deutschsprachigen empirischen Soziologie

    Speaker: Michael Windzio (Direktor EMPAS an der Universität Bremen)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Zur Ausschöpfung des Potentials von Paneldaten bedarf es der Anwendung spezifischer Methoden. In einschlägigen methodischen Publikation werden dabei solche Analyseinstrumente als geeignet verhandelt, welche die Längsschnittinformation der Daten durch Transformationen isolieren, wie Fixed Effects oder First Differences. Trotzdem zeigen (Meta-) Untersuchungen zur Methodenwahl in ...

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  • May 29 - 30, 2012

    Graduate Center Masterclasses

    The Relationship between Oil Markets and the Macro Economy: Theory and Empirics

    Speaker: Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: Di 14:00-18:30/Mi 09:00-12:30

    Contents A brief history of oil markets and oil price shocks The determinants of the price of oil Flow supply shocks versus flow demand shocks The role of speculation and expectations in oil markets How are oil price shocks transmitted to oil-importing economies? Nonlinearities in the Oil-Macro Relationship How should policy makers respond to oil price shocks? Forecasting the price of oil

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  • May 25, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Scale Economies and Returns to Scale in Non-Parametric Cost and Production Models

    Speaker: Kristiaan Kerstens, CNRS - LEM (UMR 8179), IESEG School of Management
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • May 24, 2012

    Seminar

    A model of focusing in economic choice

    Speaker: Adam Szeidl, CEU Budapest
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 15:00-16:30

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