In the shadow of homeownership and public housing, social policy through the regulation of private rental markets is a neglected and underestimated field of social policy. This paper, therefore, presents unique new data on the development of private tenancy legislation through the binary coding of rent control, the protection of tenants from eviction, and rental housing rationing laws across more than ...
Dieser Beitrag ist am 11. Januar in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Bei der Genderfrage muss es um Gleichberechtigung, also Chancengleichheit, und nicht um Gleichstellung, also gleiche Resultate, gehen – so die Kritik an meinen beiden letzten Kolumnen bei ZEIT ONLINE (hier und hier). Man solle also Frauen nicht zu ...
This note investigates the extent to which structural estimates of marital surplus are informative about subjective well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with perfectly transferable utility and heterogeneity in tastes applied to a rich German panel dataset. We then show that these estimates of the marital surplus are negatively ...
Longitudinal studies on associations between changes in living environment and health are few and focus on movers. Next to causal effects, differences in health between living environments can, however, result due to residential mobility. The present study explored changes in living environment related to (changes in) physical health among movers and non-movers. Causality was reinforced by a novel ...
This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that deprivation in social participation can be convincingly established by drawing on extensive non-participation in customary ...
With Germany’s nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities remaining in charge of dismantling, while liability for interim and final storage now transferred to the public. This ...
BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
Flächendeckende staatliche Förderung treibt die Preise – Mittel für den sozialen Wohnungsbau sollten auf Innenstädte fokussiert werden. Die Bauwirtschaft bleibt eine wichtige Stütze der Konjunktur. Zusammen können die Unternehmen der Bauwirtschaft – also Wohnungs-, Tief- und Gewerbebau – mit einer Steigerung des nominalen Bauvolumens von rund siebeneinhalb ...
