MASTER’S PROJECT: CHALLENGING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN PHILANTHROPY THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND DEEP LISTENING

This capstone project is an account of a personal transformation journey that started in March of 2017. It follows my deep and personal exploration of challenging systemic racism as I spoke with many leaders in the philanthropic and artistic communities. In addition, I created artwork to help incorporate and synthesize my emotions around white supremacy and process what I was learning. The qualitative information that was gathered was abundant and the supporting art journaling technique was useful in the translation of that information

The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from West Germany

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such search strategies are affected by the local accommodation of labor market programs. Such programs have been suggested to lead to a regional locking-in effect. Empirical results are obtained from a stratified Cox partial likelihood proportional hazards model that allows for location-specific fixed effects and are compared to estimates from a parametric log-logistic hazard model that takes account of unobserved individual heterogeneity. The findings indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions with unfavorable re-employment opportunities. No locking-in effect from labor market programs is found. The probability of migration is found to increase with search time. --interregional mobility,unemployment duration,competing-risk,active labor market policy,unobserved location-specific heterogeneity

Theoretical Studies on the Transition Dipole Moments of Bromoethanol

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Can public employment subsidies render the German construction sector weather proof?

In order to confine excessive levels of temporary layoffs, US firms are taxed - albeit incompletely - according to the unemployment insurance benefits claimed by their laid off workers. In contrast, German construction firms are not charged according to their layoff history and should thus have much higher layoff incentives. However, in case of a weather-induced shortfall of work, a firm's workforce is eligible for a partial subsidy to their employment costs. The level of this subsidy was subject to several reforms throughout the 1990s which provides a unique opportunity for examining the empirical link between layoff incentives and layoff rates. Our analysis is based on large individual administrative data merged with information about local weather conditions and the business cycle. We observe economically plausible effects: the higher the subsidy to employment costs, the less layoffs occur and the less weather-dependent is employment.panel data, temporary layoffs, employment stability

Area interpolation in presence of measurement error and an application to German administrative data

"In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper considers different interpolation methods for interpolating attributes from German labor office districts to German counties and vice versa. In particular, we apply dasymetric weighting as an alternative to simple area weighting both of which are based on estimated intersection areas. Since these estimates can be spurious, our theoretical framework extends the well-known Goodchild and Lam (1980) approach to the presence of measurement error in the underlying maps. We also present conditions under which the choice of interpolation method does not matter and confirm the theoretical results with a simulation study. Our application to German administrative data suggests robustness of estimation results of interpolated attributes with respect to the choice of interpolation method. We deliver weighting matrices for regional data sources of the two largest German data producers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Additional Information Anlage zum FDZ-Methodenreport Nr. 01/2006: Stata-Dateien mit den Gewichten: Gewichte.zipprozessproduzierte Daten, Statistisches Bundesamt, Landkreis, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitsagenturbezirke, Datenqualität, Datenverarbeitung, Regionalgliederung, Kartierung, regionaler Vergleich, IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, Wirtschaftsforschung, Arbeitsmarktforschung

Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany

In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on the area size of intersections between both regional entities. Estimates of intersection areas are derived from a digital map intersection. The theoretical framework derives conditions for the unbiasedness of estimated intersections and merging rules. The paper also presents conditions under which the choice of merging rule does not matter and illustrates the theoretical results with a simulation study. An application to German counties and federal employment office districts illustrates the applicability of the approach. It delivers merging schemes for regional data sources of the federal German statistical office and of the federal German employment office. --map intersection,administrative data,merging schemes,estimation

Unemployment duration in Germany: individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses extensive individual administrative and regional aggregate data to explore the extent to which these factors are likely to contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three competing exit states. Our results suggest that changes in the unemployment compensation system rather than local employment policies and administrative restructuring efforts meet expected labor market outcomes. In addition, determinants of the length of unemployment vary across exit states. --competing-risk,labor market policy,individual and regional data