Existing research has found little to no evidence for an added workereffect. However, studies to date have only analysed individuals’ actual labor supply responses to their partners’ job loss, neglecting to consider a potential mismatch between desired and actual labor supply adjustments. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we study individuals’ changes in actual and desired working ...
Mariza Montes de Oca Leon, who worked at the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, has successfully defended her dissertation at Humboldt University of Berlin. The dissertation with the title "The political economy of carbon pricing: Modelling and empirical assessment of carbon pricing policies" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Franziska Holz. We congratulate Mariza on her success ...
The recent decision by the German Constitutional Court to block the government’s plan to redirect €60 billion in unused pandemic funds toward climate-related projects has underscored the growing divisions within Germany’s three-party ruling coalition. Moreover, the decision is set to undermine economic growth at a critical moment. Earlier this month, Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled that the government’s ...
Eine Weltklimakonferenz, angeführt von einem Öl-Lobbyisten? Von der COP 28 in Dubai wird nicht viel zu erwarten sein, schätzt Ökonomin Claudia Kemfert. Das sei aber auch irrelevant: Denn die Märkte haben sich schon längst entschieden - für Zukunft statt Vergangenheit. Die Welt schwankt von einer Schockwelle in die nächste Kriegsschock, Energieschock, Preisschock, Inflationsschock, Klimaschock. Es beginnt ...
Marcel Fratzscher glaubt, Deutschland braucht eine Investitionsoffensive in Verkehr, Energie, Bildung und Digitalisierung. Selten in den letzten 30 Jahren war die wirtschaftliche Situation in Deutschland so schwierig wie aktuell. Das Problem ist nicht konjunktureller Natur – Deutschland ist nicht der kranke Mann Europas, wie gerne kolportiert wird –, sondern dass Deutschland nicht zukunftsfähig Richtung ...
The topic of this thesis is the heterogeneity in labor market outcomes over the life cycle and across gender. The thesis comprises three independent research papers (Chapters 2-4), which focus on complementary aspects of the overreaching research question: how do employment choices determine earnings, and what role does the gender component play? Chapter 1 introduces the topic of wage and gender gaps ...
