Sustainable finance taxonomies such as the European Union (EU) taxonomy can support the transition to a climate-neutral economy. As a classification system, these taxonomies serve to offer transparency and guidance as to how capital flows can be shifted to sustainable and environmentally-friendly activities. In this Weekly Report, we analyze 26 sustainable taxonomies from countries and regions around ...
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general well-being, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...
Whether or not Germany can be carbon-neutral by 2045 will also depend on whether hydrogen can be successfully utilised. The ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy which includes a substantial, industrial-scale supply of hydrogen by 2030 is an ambitious goal. The strong rise in the demand for green hydrogen and its synthesis products by industry (e.g. steel, chemical and glass industries), transport (shipping, ...
Wie ist es um Armut und sozialen Zusammenhalt in Deutschland bestellt? Wie steht es um die Integration der ukrainischen Geflüchteten, und wie hat sich die psychische Gesundheit der Menschen in den letzten 20 Jahren entwickelt? Mithilfe von Daten der Langzeit-Panelstudie forschten Wissenschaftler*innen des „Sozio-oekonomischen Panels“ (SOEP) im Jahr 2023 wieder zu einer Vielzahl an Themen des gesellschaftlichen ...
This study sheds light on the impact of different types of job retention programs such as short-time work (STW). We analyze the causal effect of an episode of STW on labor market outcomes up to five years later and compare this to the effects of sudden unemployment episodes. Using data from German Socio-Economic Panel (1992–2022), we employ an event-study approach to analyze the effect of...
This paper analyses the impact of the modernization of the Swiss marital law in the 1980s on married women's labour force participation in Switzerland. The reform of the law comprised multiple measures to foster the equality between husband and wife within the marriage. The Swiss people voted on the reform in a referendum in 1985, accepting the new marital law. Hence at the time of the vote, it...
Franziska Schütze, DIW-Forscherin und Mitglied der Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance, erläutert, warum Finanzmarktakteur*innen neben Risiko und Rendite zuletzt auch immer stärker auf den Aspekt Nachhaltigkeit achten. In den Fokus rücken bisher vor allem ökologische und soziale Kriterien sowie Kriterien guter Unternehmensführung ("Governance"). Dabei sind vielfältige Wechselwirkungen...
