Whether trade can achieve societal change is a contested topic and difficult to investigate. This round-up aims at summarizing recent empirical research on this topic while focusing on democracy and democratization as an important part of societal change. No robust results for change arising from trade can be found, but there exists an inverse causality, i.e., democratization leading to more trade...
The war of aggression Russia has been waging on Ukraine since February 24, 2022, has triggered the largest movement of refugees in Europe since World War II. Between the start of the war and January 2023, more than one million people have fled Ukraine to Germany. The refugee migration from Ukraine differs from previous waves of refugee migration with regard to three institutional framework...
Social mobility and equal opportunity are key to thriving societies and economies. In the aftermath of the pandemic and in the context of increasing prices, calls for policymakers to address social and economic inequalities are intensifying. The recently launched Observatory on Social Mobility and Equal Opportunity not only brings together all OECD data points, but also displays the impact of...
Scenarios for financing an unconditional basic income are being developed in the project. Furthermore, the revenue and distribution effects of basic income and financing options are analyzed.
Im Projekt werden mögliche Szenarien zur Finanzierung eines bedinungslosen Grundeinkommens entwickelt. Ferner werden Aufkommen und Verteilungswirkungen von Grundeinkommen und Finanzierungsoptionen analysiert.
Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), zur angespannten Lage im Bankensektor:
Whether trade can achieve societal change is a contested topic and difficult to investigate. This round-up aims at summarizing recent empirical research on this topic while focusing on democracy and democratization as an important part of societal change. No robust results for change arising from trade can be found, but there exists an inverse causality, i.e., democratization leading to more trade. ...
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and benefactors of welfare and asks how the public perception of the rich and the poor drives redistributive preferences. ...
Der Bundesfinanzminister beklagt die hohe Zinslast als Risiko für den Haushalt. Dabei gibt es keinen Grund zur Panik – wenn man denn alle Fakten berücksichtigt. Bundesfinanzminister Christian Lindner warnt eindringlich, dass der Anstieg der Zinskosten des Staates den finanziellen Spielraum der Bundesregierung stark einenge. Er rechtfertigt damit seine Forderung, die Staatsausgaben zu beschränken. Ist ...
