We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these ...
Women tend to evaluate their own pay more favorably than men. Contented women are speculated to not seek higher wages, thus the ‘paradox of the contented female worker’ may contribute to persistent gender pay differences. We extend the literature on gender differences in pay evaluations by investigating fairness evaluations of own earnings and underlying conceptions of fair earnings, providing a closer ...
Vor etwa zehn Jahren beschleunigte sich in deutschen Großstädten der Anstieg der Immobilienpreise und Mieten. Mit dieser Entwicklung ist auch hierzulande städtischer Boden wieder zu einem zentralen Gegenstand gesellschaftlicher Konflikte geworden. Gestritten wird – wenn auch häufig unter anderen Begriffen – um das Eigentum an städtischem Boden, um das Einkommen ...
In this research project, the effects of national emissions trading in the field of heating and transportation are evaluated, and concepts for further development are analyzed. The climate protection effects, the effects on consumption and investment decisions as well as the distribution effects on private households are considered.
