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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
31.01.2024| Luisa Hammer
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
20.12.2023| Jonas Jessen
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper evaluates the effects of immigration on health in the workplace. Using rich linked employer-employee data, I demonstrate that firms with a higher concentration of foreign workers experience lower rates of long-term sick leave among native employees. The effect on the total sick rate is smaller in magnitude. The results are consistent with foreign employment alleviating understaffing and...
08.11.2023| Izabela Wnuk
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This study asks how work intensity differs between nurses that work in three different hospital settings: 1) non-digitalized hospital, 2) digitalized hospital and 3) digitalized+semi-automated hospital. Theoretical and political expectations are that nurses experience less work intensity with higher digital maturity of the hospital. The digital transformation of hospitals is a current political...
18.10.2023| Julia Bringmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Research Project
This project analyses various reform and labour market scenarios with regard to their impact on old-age poverty in the period up to 2045. These are changes to the lower limit for the level of protection in the GRV (holding lines), the pension adjustment rule, a higher retirement age, a generous exemption scheme for pension income from the GRV for basic security, and increased gainful employment at...
Completed Project| Public Economics
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Stock market participation jumped upwards in Germany in the year 2020 by about 25%. A major cause for this was the enforced use of remote work. We show this by repeating a benchmark study with demanding data requests and adding remote work to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on commuting distance and work-from- home capacity. The...
19.07.2023| Lorenz Meister
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Two significant drivers of a person's financial situation in old age are pension income and costs for long-term care dependence. Both are unknown when the person makes her most important financial decisions, which makes it particularly interesting to understand her beliefs about them and how they influence her choices. In a representative survey, we elicit detailed expectations about individuals...
05.07.2023| Bruno Veltri (HU Berlin), Maximilian Blesch
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions in the corporate sector such as on company boards. One of the reasons for this underrepresentation are gender stereotypes on the skill distribution, social and occupational roles, personality traits, and how they affect labor market decision making. Media plays an important role in transporting gender stereotypes. In this paper we...
21.06.2023| Virginia Sondergeld
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
In the recent economic crises, Germany has made use of job retention schemes and in particular short-time work benefits ('Kurzarbeit') to tackle shocks in labor demand. Under these schemes, workers have not been laid off and received unemployment benefits, but reduced their working hours (or stopped working) for a limited amount of time while receiving short-time leave benefits. While the effect...
07.06.2023| Clara Schäper
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
We study the incentive and labor market effects of disability benefit programs using unique policy variation in Germany. In 2014, disability benefits of new recipients were increased considerably while eligibility criteria were not changed. We exploit this quasi-experimental policy variation to test the implications at two different margins. First, we analyze to what extent an increase in the...
24.05.2023| Annica Gehlen