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  • Blog Marcel Fratzscher

    Germany’s Misunderstood Trade Surplus

    Now that Germany’s current-account surplus has reached a record €270 billion ($285 billion), or close to 8.7% of GDP, the ongoing debate about its economic model has intensified. Eurozone politicians and Donald Trump’s administration in the United States are each blaming the other for the economic imbalance; and all are blaming the euro. Trump’s administration, for its part, ...

    07.03.2017| Marcel Fratzscher
  • Externe Monographien

    Knowledge-Based Capital and Firm Productivity

    Berlin: TU Berlin, 2019, 132, XXVI S. | Marie Le Mouel
  • Seminar

    Measuring Productivity Dispersion: Lessons from Counting One-Hundred Million Ballots

    11.07.2018| Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics
  • Workshop

    Workshop on Development Economics: "Firms and Productivity"

    This workshop brings together high profile junior researchers from leading universities in Europe and the US, who present recent work on the nexus of firms and productivity in developing economies. The workshop is jointly organized by researchers from the DIW and the University of Munich (LMU). Attendance by invitation!

    20.11.2019
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Increased Instruction Hours and the Widening Gap in Student Performance

    Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student performance. However, treatment effects ...

    In: Labour Economics 47 (2017), S. 15-34 | Mathias Huebener, Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus
  • SOEPpapers 911 / 2017

    Zur Berechnung von Bruttostundenlöhnen - Verdienst(struktur)erhebung und Sozio-oekonomisches Panel im Vergleich

    Aufgrund der Festlegung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns als Stundenlohn müssen valide Informationen, zu Bruttostundenlöhnen aus den Angaben zu Monatsentgelten und wöchentlichen Arbeitszeiten, berechnet werden. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht methodisch sowie empirisch das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und die Verdienst(struktur)erhebung. Demnach bestehen grundlegende konzeptionelle Unterschiede, in der Stichprobenziehung ...

    2017| Matthias Dütsch, Ralf Himmelreicher, Clemens Ohlert
  • Diskussionspapiere 1788 / 2019

    Agglomeration Economies and the Firm TFP: Different Effects across Industries

    This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms’ total factor productivity. We propose the use of a control function approach to overcome the econometric issue inherent to the two-stage approach commonly used in the literature. Estimations are conducted separately for four industry groups, defined by technological intensity, to allow for non-uniform effects of agglomeration economies ...

    2019| Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch
  • Press Release

    Company productivity increases with more knowledge-based capital

    First study using official company records — more knowledge-based capital increases productivity — some sectors are already investing more in knowledge-based capital than in machines and buildings — economic policy must take a holistic approach towards investments Every year in Germany, around 200 billion euros are invested in knowledge-based capital, such as research and development ...

    01.02.2018
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Intended College Enrollment and Educational Inequality: Do Students Lack Information?

    Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented in universities. In this regard, the economics literature has focused on the role of financial constraints as a cause of these observed differences in educational choices. Our knowledge of potential effects of other constraints regarding university education is ...

    In: Economics of Education Review 60 (2017), S. 125-141 | Frauke H. Peter, Vaishali Zambre
  • Externe Monographien

    Human Capital Returns to Education: Three Essays on the Causal Effects of Schooling on Skills and Health

    Berlin: FU Berlin, 2016, 213 S. | Sarah Dahmann
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