1. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database

    The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Parental Background Matters: Intergenerational Mobility and Assimilation of Italian Immigrants in Germany

    We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against registry…

  3. ZEW-Finanzmarktreport // 2018

    Oktober 2018

    • Ausblick verbessert sich leicht – Risiken und Chancen liegen im Auslandsgeschäft
    • Eurozone: Konjunkturerwartungen verbessern sich erneut
    • USA: Erwartungen gehen erneut zurück
    • Japan: Konjunkturlage verbessert…
  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-038 // 2018

    Exploration vs Exploitation, Impulse Balance Equilibrium, and a Specification Test for the El Farol Bar Problem

    The paper reports on market-entry experiments that manipulate both payoff structures and payoff levels to assess two stationary models of behaviour: Exploration vs Exploitation (EvE, which is equivalent to…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-037 // 2018

    Training in the Great Recession - Evidence from an Individual Perspective

    This paper analyses the effect of the economic crisis in 2008 and 2009 on individual training activities of different employee groups within establishments. We use a unique German linked employer–employee panel…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-036 // 2018

    Cross-Border Tax Evasion After the Common Reporting Standard: Game Over?

    We study the short term effect of the first global multilateral standard for the automatic exchange of information (AEOI), the so called Common Reporting Standard (CRS), on cross border tax evasion. Our sample…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-035 // 2018

    A Call to Action: From Evolution to Revolution on the Common Reporting Standard

    As a result of technical development and globalization, investing abroad has become much more accessible, and thus, an important channel for transferring wealth and income to offshore locations with the aim to…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-034 // 2018

    Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry – A Comparison between Germany and the U.S.

    In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between…

  9. Non-Refereed Journal // 2018

    Wie soll eine Anpassung gefördert werden?

    In this interview, Daniel Osberghaus explains which instruments may be used by policy makers to support and strengthen adaptation to climate change in the agricultural sector.