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Refereed essays Web of Science
We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax–benefit systems largely depend on household composition and the individual’s earner role within the household. We then estimate participation elasticities using an IV group estimator that enables us to investigate the responsiveness of individuals to work incentives. We contribute to the literature on ...
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International Tax and Public Finance
30 (2023), S. 167–214
| Charlotte Bartels, Cortnie Shupe
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How people invest for retirement in Germany
Smart machines
Low-income workers need supportive care services six years earlier
At regular intervals, we publish here the most interesting coverage of results using SOEP data.
November/December 2021
How people invest for retirement in Germany
Real estate is an investment few can afford, and government pension funds may not be sufficient to cover ...
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DIW Weekly Report 1/2 / 2022
Sales in the construction industry will continue to increase strongly in 2022 and 2023. Overall, DIW Berlin estimates a nominal increase in construction volume of almost 13 percent in 2022 and six percent in 2023 to 585 billion euros. In 2021, construction volume increased by ten percent to 488 billion euros, which is around 15 percent of GDP. This shows that construction demand remains at a high level ...
2022| Martin Gornig, Claus Michelsen, Laura Pagenhardt
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Since the early beginnings of the electricity system, storage has been of high relevance for balancing supply and demand. Through expanded electricity production by variable renewable technologies such as wind and photovoltaics, the discussion about new options for storage technologies is emerging. In addition, the electricity markets were subject to remarkable alterations. Some developments which ...
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment
11 (2022), 3, e431
| Reinhard Haas, Claudia Kemfert, Hans Auer, Amela Ajanovic, Marlene Sayer, Albert Hiesl
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Refereed essays Web of Science
I examine the Coasean independence property in a large multinational cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions, the EU Emissions Trading System. I analyze whether emissions of power producers are independent from allowance allocations by leveraging a change in allocation policy for a difference-in-differences strategy. The evidence suggests that the independence property holds overall and for ...
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
15 (2023), 2. S. S. 526-558
| Aleksandar Zaklan
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasi-experimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties by state authorities without being able to choose their locations themselves. This study finds that higher...
26.01.2022| Christopher Prömel, Freie Universität Berlin
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Diskussionspapiere 1993 / 2022
This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. It compiles a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. The main insight is that, as in equity markets, the returns on external sovereign bonds have been sufficiently high to compensate for risk. Real ...
2022| Josefin Meyer, Carmen M. Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch
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December 16, 2021, marked ten years since Joachim R. Frick’s death. Joachim was part of the SOEP for over 20 years and a deeply valued colleague.
Markus Grabka remembers:
I first met Joachim in December of 1992. I was being interviewed for a student assistant position at the DIW in Dahlem. At that time, the SOEP had just a handful of staff members, so everyone in the department was there ...
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SOEPpapers 1157 / 2022
Income-Dependent Equivalence Scales and Choice Theory: Implications for Poverty MeasurementEquivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their reduced ability to share goods within the household. This disadvantage is ...
2022| Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder
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SOEPpapers 1159 / 2022
Background: The transition to parenthood is characterized by far-reaching changes in life. However, little prospective-longitudinal evidence from general population samples exists on changes of general physical and mental health in the years around the birth of a child among mothers and fathers. Methods: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this study examined continuous and ...
2022| Eva Asselmann, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Susanne Knappe, Julia Martini