Felix Groba
Berlin,
04.05.2011
| Brown Bag Seminar Department Energy, Transportation, Environment: Determinants of Trade with Solar Energy Technology Good - Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis?
Erik S. Amundsen, Mario Ragwitz, Karsten Neuhoff
Florenz, Italien,
29.04.2011
| Renewable Energy Support in Europe: Workshop of the Florence School of Regulation
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we contrast the impact of parental cognitive abilities (fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence) and personality traits (Big Five,...
Silke Anger
Vancouver, Kanada,
29.04.2011
- 30.04.2011| 16th Annual Conference of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)
This paper studies second generation migrants and natives in Germany's education system. It has been shown that native-migrant gaps in labor market outcomes as well as schooling are surprisingly persistent over migrant generations. We shed more light on this puzzle and address the question at which point(s) in time those developments are initiated. By employing a matching approach, in which we...
Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne, Simone Schüller
Vancouver, Kanada,
29.04.2011
- 30.04.2011| 16th Annual Conference of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)
This article analyzes the effects of an increase in statutory sick pay from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. Difference-in-differences approaches show that the increase in generosity decreased employee attendance by about ten percent or one day per employee per year. Heterogeneity in response behavior was of great importance and employee health its main driver. For employers,...
Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Martin Karlsson
Vancouver, Kanada,
29.04.2011
- 30.04.2011| 16th Annual Conference of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)
Rolf Ketzler
Seoul, Republik Korea,
28.04.2011
| The Changing Role of Think Tanks in the Knowledge-Based Society: International Conference of the Korea Development Institute
Markus M. Grabka
Dresden,
27.04.2011
| Gerecht. Gerechtigkeit als Gegenstand und Prinzip in Forschung und Politik: Vortragsreihe von Staatsschauspiel Dresden, TU Dresden und Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
This paper investigates the income convergence among Russian regions in the period 1998-2006. It makes two major contributions to rather extensive literature on the regional convergence in Russia. First, it identifies spatial regimes using the exploratory spatial data analysis. Second, it examines the impact of spatial effects on the convergence process. Our results show that the overall speed of...
Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Boriss Siliverstovs
Ekaterinburg, Russland,
22.04.2011
- 23.04.2011| Ustojcivoe razvitie rossijskich regionov: celovek i modernizacija (Sustainable Development of Russian Regions: Human and Modernization): VIII Mezdunarodnaja naucnaja-prakticeskaja konferencija po problemam ekonomiceskogo razvitija v sovremennom mire
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich...
Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler
London, Großbritannien,
18.04.2011
- 20.04.2011| Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2011: RES 2011
Florian Mölders, Ulrich Volz
Nottingham, Großbritannien,
14.04.2011
- 15.04.2011| 10th GEP Annual Postgraduate Conference: The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)