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Top down or Bottom Up? A Cross-National Study of Vertical Occupational Sex Segregation in Twelve European Countries

Schäfer, Andrea; Tucci, Ingrid; Gottschall, Karin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Starting with a comparative assessment of different welfare regimes and political economies from the perspective of gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women's chances of being in a high-status occupation in twelve West...

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What Can Happiness Research Tell Us about Altruism?: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Schwarze, Johannes; Winkelmann, Rainer - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of measurement can be fruitfully applied to the study of interdependent utility in general, and...

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Estimating Crowding Costs in Public Transport

Haywood, Luke; Koning, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Preferences for transport activities are often considered only in terms of time and money. Whilst congestion in automobile traffic increases costs by raising trip durations, the same is less obvious in public transport (PT), especially rail-based. This has lead many economic analyses to conclude...

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The Benefit of Coordinating Congestion Management in Germany

Kunz, Friedrich; Zerrahn, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

coordination between them in managing national congestion would be beneficial. To address this issue, we apply a generalized Nash … equilibrium model to analyze different degrees of coordination, covering the German electricity market with a detailed … rising degree of coordination as TSOs take into account congestion in other operators' zones. Total costs are highest in case …

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Finding Your Right (or Left) Partner to Merge

Bruns, Benjamin; Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Abel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We study political determinants of municipality amalgamations during a boundary reform in the German state of Brandenburg, which reduced the number of municipalities from 1,489 to 421. The analysis is conducted using data on the political decision makers as well as fiscal and socio-economic...

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Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyses the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labour. Each group of workers benefits...

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Incumbency, Party Identity and Governmental Lead: Evidence for Heterogeneous Incumbency Effects for Germany

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or government and opposition? We first present a theoretical discussion on the possible heterogeneity of incumbency effects in a pure two-party system. Then, we estimate the incumbency...

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Incumbency as the Major Advantage: The Electoral Advantage for Parties of Incumbent Mayors

Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper provides empirical evidence on the party incumbency advantage in mayoral elections in Germany. Using a regression discontinuity design on a data set of about 25,000 elections, I estimate a causal incumbency effect of 38-40 percentage points in the probability of winning the next mayor...

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Tax Competition and the Choice of Tax Structure in a Majority Voting Model

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This note studies the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model with tax competition. Regions may tax mobile capital or immobile labor. Individuals differ with respect to their relative endowments of labor and capital. Even though a lump sum tax is available, the equilibrium capital tax...

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Success in the University Admission Process in Germany: Regional Provenance Matters

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

School education in Germany is under the responsibility of the federal states and as a consequence average grades differ widely across regions. Since school leavers apply nationwide for admission to university, regional provenance may thus matter a lot for the success probability in the...

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