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Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through Energy Access: Lessons from the Global South

Under the banner of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), governments, industry, and civil society organisations have supported many energy access projects since 2015. Notably, funding and investments allotted to renewable energy are regarded not only to provide ‘energy for all’ but also support the delivery of other SDGs related to climate change, food security, health, and poverty ...

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Pandemic-induced Psychosocial Stress in Different Life Domains among the Working-Age Population

Background Psychosocial stress is considered a risk factor for physical and mental ill-health. Evidence on socioeconomic inequalities with regard to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is still limited. We aimed to investigate how pandemic-induced psychosocial stress (PIPS) in different life domains differed between socioeconomic groups.MethodsData came from the German ...

Forschungsgruppe Lebensverlauf und Ungleichheit

Soziale Ungleichheit bleibt in vielen entwickelten Wohlfahrtsstaaten eine zentrale Herausforderung. Grundlegende gesellschaftliche Veränderungen wie die Alterung der Bevölkerung, sich wandelnde Geschlechterrollen, veränderte Familienstrukturen und Transformationen auf den Arbeitsmärkten können diese Ungleichheiten beeinflussen. Als Reaktion darauf untersucht die Forschungsgruppe „Lebensverlauf und...

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Ampel-Monitor Energiewende: ambitionierte Ziele, aber zu geringe Dynamik

The German “traffic light” (Ampel) coalition has set ambitious new energy transition targets. Using an open data tool developed at DIW Berlin, we discuss the progress and challenges of selected indicators. Since the government took over, photovoltaic capacity increased by 45 % to 87 GW by April 2024, with a planned doubling by 2030. However, onshore wind power grew by only 11 % to 62 GW. The installation ...

DECIPHE – Demographic Change and the Intergenerational Persistence in Homeownership in Europe

DECIPHE ist das erste Projekt, das umfassend untersucht, ob und wie tiefgreifend sich demografische Veränderungen in Europa auf die intergenerationale Persistenz von Wohneigentum auswirken. Dabei werden Unterschiede zwischen Ländern, Regionen und Geburtskohorten berücksichtigt. Das Projekt nimmt  eine Lebensverlaufsperspektive auf Wohneigentum ein, bei der die Präferenzen und Ressourcen der...

DECIPHE – Demographic Change and the Intergenerational Persistence in Homeownership in Europe

DECIPHE is the first project to comprehensively study whether and how profound demographic changes in Europe impact the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, considering variations across countries, regions, and birth cohorts. It adopts a life course framework on housing tenure, in which individuals’ homeownership is shaped by their household members’ preferences and resources and...

Renewable Energy and Equilibrium Hedging in Electricity Forward Markets

We study the impact of renewable energy on forward markets for electricity. Previous literature shows that forward prices are determined by time-varying demand and volatile spot prices. We introduce supply risk from renewable generation and find that stochastic renewable output mitigates income risk for generating firms, in particular when negative shocks to renewable output have large positive price ...

Ergebnisse der EU-Wahl werden Europa schwächen und polarisieren

Zu den Ergebnissen der Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament äußert sich Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:

Technological Progress, Occupational Structure, and Gender Gaps in the German Labour Market

We analyze if technological progress and the change in the occupational structure have improved women’s position in the labour market. We show that women increasingly work in non-routine manual and in interactive occupations. However, the observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely driven by declining gender wag gaps within, rather than between, occupations. A decomposition exercise reveals ...