RWI BERLIN
NETWORK SEMINAR
The RWI Office Berlin organizes the "RWI Berlin Network Seminar" since 2023, inviting researchers based in Berlin to the RWI Berlin Office for research talks. The seminar is open to RWI-externals with prior registration (please email Claudia.Schmiedchen@rwi-essen.de).
Events 2023
07.02.2023: RWI Berlin Network Seminar
Speaker: Peter Haan (DIW Berlin & Freie Universität Berlin)
Location: Hybrid – Berlin Office and Teams Link
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Title: "Is Migration Reducing Labor Scarcity? Evidence From Long-Term Care"
13.04.2023: RWI Berlin Network Seminar
Speaker: Jan Marcus (FU Berlin)
Location: Hybrid – Berlin Office and Teams Link
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Title: "What a difference a day makes: Mortality effects of the school starting age"
01.06.2023: RWI Berlin Network Seminar
Speaker: Alexandra Spitz-Oener (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin und ROOKWOOL Foundation Berlin)
Location: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Title: Workplace Connections and Migration: Evidence from German Reunification
19.10.2023: RWI Berlin Network Seminar
Speaker: Rajshri Jayaraman (ESTM)
Location: Hybrid – Berlin Office and Teams Link
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Title: tba
15.11.2023: RWI Berlin Network Seminar
Speaker: Charlotte Bartels (DIW Berlin)
Location: Hybrid – Berlin Office and Teams Link
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Title: tba
14.12.2023: RWI Berlin Network Seminar
Speaker: Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Location: Hybrid – Berlin Office and Teams Link
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Title: Industrialization, returns, inequality (co-authored with Thilo Albers and Timo Stieglitz)
Abstract: How do technological revolutions impact wealth inequality? To answer this question, we turn to the industrial revolution and analyze its role for wealth concentration both empirically and theoretically. Based on a novel dataset on regional top wealth shares and industrialization in Prussia, we provide causal evidence that industrialization can explain the shift in the top 1 share observed over the 19th century and also led to a fattening of the wealth distribution's tail. We rationalize these effects by introducing a dynamic 2-sector structure featuring scale and dynastic type dependence into an overlapping generations model with heterogeneous returns to capital. The simulations suggest that the combination of these two features explains about half of the total increase of the top 1 share, while the other half resulted from the general increase in capital returns.