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  • October 31, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    9/11- Attitudes toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

    Speaker: Simone Schüller - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Abstract:The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks has likely induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiment, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and exploiting the fact that survey interviews have been randomly conducted throughout the year 2001 - before and after September 11 - I am able ...

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  • October 24, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Economics of Information: How Job Information Centers affect Educational Choices and Labour Market Outcomes

    Speaker: Nils Saniter
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    AbstractThis paper exploits the effects of job information centers in West Germany on pupils' educational and occupational choices, as well as on their labor market outcomes in later life. This paper contributes to the very sparse literature on the impacts of the public provision of labor market related information. We exploit the fact that West Germany job information centers were introduced at ...

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  • October 24, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Economics of Information: How Job Information Centers affect Educational Choices and Labor Market Outcomes

    Speaker: in Zusammenarbeit mit Thomas Siedler (Universität Hamburg), Nils Saniter
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

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  • October 19, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Do seasonal influenza vaccination efforts enhance pandemic preparedness?
    Evidence from the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic in the United States

    Speaker: Jürgen Maurer, University of Lausanne
    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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  • October 17, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Job Referrals and Immigrants’ Occupational Status. The Role of Bridging Social Capital
    Job Referrals and Immigrants’ Occupational Status. The Role of Bridging Social Capital

    Speaker: Bram Lancee (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung - WZB)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:00

    Using longitudinal data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (1986-2005), this paper analyzes how job referrals affect the occupational status of immigrants in Germany. This allows me to examine whether access to bridging social capital can be activated and converted into a better position on the labor market. Random effects and fixed effects models show that job referrals from friends only ...

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  • October 12, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Risk attitudes, Development and Growth.
    Evidence from Experiments in 28 Countries

    Speaker: Ferdinand Vieider, WZB
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    Abstract: We measure risk attitudes across 28 different countries in a controlled, fully incentivized experiment. The results contribute to building bridges between different strands of literature. First and foremost, we show that risk attitudes vary considerably between countries. For typical experimental stakes, risk seeking or neutrality is just as frequent as risk aversion. Looking at a cross ...

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  • October 5, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Assignment vs. choice: lessons from training vouchers

    Speaker: Friedrich Poeschel, IAB Nürnberg
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    For instrumental-variable estimation using binary instruments, we offer simple methods to obtain policy-relevant insights beyond local average treatment effects. We demonstrate the methods by evaluating an element of choice in- troduced into active labour market policy in Germany by a reform in 2003. Instead of being assigned to training courses by caseworkers, unemployed job seekers receive ...

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  • October 4 - 5, 2012

    Graduate Center Masterclasses

    Recent topics in international trade

    Speaker: Miklós Koren, Central European University
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 14:00-18:30 (04.10.)/ 09:30-12:30 (05.10.)

    The course studies the role of firm heterogeneity in international trade. It reviews the sources of firm heterogeneity and the canonical models of heterogeneity and trade. It then evaluates these models in light of micro-level empirical evidence, and evaluates their quantitative performance for predicting aggregate outcomes. It also offers new directions of research: models of within-firm ...

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  • September 27, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Dead Man Walking: The Impact of Over-Education on Life Satisfaction
    Dead Man Walking: The Impact of Over-Education on Life Satisfaction

    Speaker: John P. Haisken-DeNew (MIAESR, University of Melbourne)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:00

    The negative effects of unemployment on wellbeing have been clearly documented in the economics literature. However some current employees may move directly into a new job, never experiencing an unemployment spell, yet find themselves in a new job underutilising their skills or education ("downchanges"). We assess empirically, whether downchanges are similar to unemployment spells, ...

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  • September 20 - 21, 2012

    Graduate Center Masterclasses

    Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics

    Speaker: Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 20.9.2012 14:00-18:00/21.9.2012 09:00-12:30

    Masterclasses are a series of one- or two day courses on various topics in Economics, organized by the DIW Graduate Center. The target audience consists of graduate students in Economics at Berlin universities and research institutes. The GC Masterclasses are held on an irregular basis at DIW Berlin (about once a month) and are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin, those of the BDPEMS program, and ...

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  • August 9, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Nonresponse in Online-Befragungen. Zur Nutzung von prozessproduzierten Daten für die Bewertung und Verbesserung der Datenqualität
    Nonresponse in Online-Befragungen. Zur Nutzung von prozessproduzierten Daten für die Bewertung und Verbesserung der Datenqualität

    Speaker: Doreen Zillmann und Andreas Schmitz (Universität Bamberg)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Der Großteil der Daten, die für sozialwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen genutzt werden, stammt aus Befragungen. Schon seit mehreren Jahren haben Online-Befragungen gegenüber telefonischen und persönlichen Befragungen einen enormen Aufschwung erlebt. Üblicherweise sind bei Befragungen Ausschöpfungsquoten von 100 Prozent nicht zu erreichen. Die Ausschö ...

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  • August 8, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Number of siblings, birth order and maternal investments in preschool children: Resource dilution or resource augmentation?
    Number of siblings, birth order and maternal investments in preschool children: Resource dilution or resource augmentation?

    Speaker: Magdalena Osmanowski und Andrés Cardona (Universität Bielefeld)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This study aims to explore the relationship between sibling number, birth order and maternal time investments in preschool children. Using the GSOEP and "Familien in Deutschland", we investigate maternal time investments in children aged 2-3 and 5-6. The dependent variables consist of two dimensions extracted from the mother's self-reported frequencies in various activities with ...

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  • July 25, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Der neue Datensatz BIOSIB
    Der neue Datensatz BIOSIB

    Speaker: Daniel D. Schnitzlein
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:00

    Daniel D. Schnitzlein stellt kurz den neuen Datensatz BIOSIB mit den Geschwisterzeigern vor, um ihn dann zur Diskussion zu stellen.

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  • July 18, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Regina T. Riphahn, LMU München, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    This article studies long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance ...

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  • July 6, 2012

    Berlin Seminar

    Pricing Carbon - Tackling the Deficit and Enabling Growth?

    Speaker: John Ward, Vivid Economics
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    A recent study by Vivid Economics on "Carbon taxation and fiscal consolidation in Europe" analyses the macro-economic impacts of different taxes in tackling the fiscal deficit. The study shows that carbon pricing is less detrimental than other tax options, as it encourages the substitution of fuel imports with local investment. Building on experience with the implementation of emissions ...

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  • July 6, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

    Speaker: Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, University of Linz, Austria
    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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  • July 4, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables

    Speaker: Johanna Storck, Ronny Freier
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality middle school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German socio-economic household panel in which we observe children when they make their secondary school decisions (in the age between 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further educational pathway (in ...

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  • June 26, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Data preparation of the new SOEP consumption module - Editing, imputation and smoothing
    Data preparation of the new SOEP consumption module - Editing, imputation and smoothing

    Speaker: Markus M. Grabka, Rainer Siegers, Jan Marcus
    Location: Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.001
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:00 - 13:00

    In 2010 the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the household questionnaire. This presentation discusses several methodological challenges of the new module and suggests remedy measures. The methodological challenges include inconsistencies between monthly and annual consumption information, missing values and a high incidence of ...

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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 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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