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Restricted healthcare puts a strain on refugees and society

Die meisten Todesfälle Geflüchteter ereignen sich auf der zentralen Mittelmeerroute

Der Kapitalismus ist nicht das Problem

Wachstum ist mit dem Klimawandel nicht vereinbar, der Kapitalismus ist am Ende. Was viele glauben, stimmt nicht. Für Freiheit und Wohlstand braucht es mehr davon. In manchen Teilen westlicher Demokratien hat sich die Überzeugung durchgesetzt, der Kapitalismus sei ungeeignet, einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit unserem Planeten und breiten Wohlstand zu gewährleisten. Diese Überzeugung zeugt nicht nur von ...

Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany

We investigate how internal distribution motives can affect the implementation of an important macroeconomic policy: capital controls. To do this, we study one of history’s largest debt repatriations, which took place under strict capital controls in 1930s Germany, providing a wealth of quantitative and historical evidence. We show that the authorities kept private repatriations under strict control, ...

Der Kapitalismus ist nicht das Problem

#17: Energiewende à la française

Auch Frankreich betreibt den Umbau seines Energie- und Stromsystems, um bis zur Mitte des Jahrhunderts klimaneutral zu werden. Zusammen mit Céline Pizzotti, stellvertretende Geschäftsführerin des Deutsch-französischen Büros für die Energiewende, und Adeline Guéret, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am DIW Berlin, beleuchten wir die Energiewende à la française. Während es gerade im Stromsektor große...

The Long-term Consequences of Early School Absences for Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes

School absences can negatively impact a child's schooling, including the loss of teacher-led lessons, peer interactions, and, ultimately, academic achievement. However, little is known about the long-term consequences of school absences for overall educational attainment and labour market outcomes. In this paper, we used data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine long-term associations between ...

Establishing a Probability Sample in a Crisis Context: The Example of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany in 2022

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, more than one million refugees have arrived in Germany. These Ukrainian refugees differ in many aspects from Germany’s past forced migration experiences and there exists an urgent need for sound data and information for politics, practitioners, and academics. In response, the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP study was established to provide high-quality ...

Schooling and Self-Control

While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality remains a matter of debate. We make a contribution to resolving this issue by exploiting a series of Australian and German educational reforms that increased minimum education requirements as a source of exogenous variation in education levels. Instrumental variables estimates suggest ...

Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policies in Europe

Political measures at the level of the European Union are intended, among other things, to ensure the stability of the economic and monetary union. This includes, for example, the establishment of the European Recovery Fund, which can be a first step towards a fiscal union in the Eurozone. The project examines how these, and other economic policy measures affect inequality between households. The...