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Health Policy and Access to Health Care in Germany: A Fragmented System for Asylum Seekers’ Health

In Germany, health needs of citizens and ordinary residents are taken care of under the scope of statutory social and health insurance. The asylum-seeking population, however, receives healthcare through a parallel system, where decisions on provision of health services are not met at a central health governance level, but rather at federal state and sometimes at municipal...

Unconditional Basic Income: from theory to practice

This paper aims to investigate whether Van Parijs' theory of Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) can address the criticism of the lack of individual responsibility on the part of recipients. To do so, I relate this UBI theory to the results of field experiments that study the impact of UBI on employment. Theoretical and empirical results suggest that the UBI does not lead to a decrease in labor...

Generational Wealth Inequality Across the Distribution: Trends in the U.S. since 1949

Using recently published U.S. long-run microdata (SCF+), we document that — for people born in the first half of the 20th century — median wealth used to increase from one ten-year birth cohort to another. For people born in the second half, median wealth successively declined from cohort to cohort and wealth inequality within birth cohorts has markedly increased. Shifts in...

Wage Dispersion and Life-Cycle Unemployment

Higher wage dispersion may induce unemployed workers to search longer for a job by increasing their reservation wages. This paper investigates the implications of this mechanism in a job search model featuring a finite work life, showing that a mean-preserving spread of the wage offer distribution could lead to a larger increase in reservation wages of younger than older workers because the...

Chronic disease onset and wellbeing. Analyzing level, trend effects, and exploring the role of healthcare access

Objectives: Experiencing the onset of a chronic disease is a major life event impacting living conditions and wellbeing. Using longitudinal data, this study investigates immediate and trend impacts of chronic disease onset on life satisfaction and health satisfaction. It further examines, whether healthcare access buffers the immediate wellbeing reduction after disease onset.Methods: Data were...

Für's Klima: Mehr Zusammenarbeit zwischen Industrie- und Schwellenländern nötig!: Animierte Infografik

Learn to use the SOEP over Lunch

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...

Uniper: Eine bittere Pille, die Deutschland jetzt schlucken muss

Zur am gestrigen Dienstag beschlossenen Verstaatlichung des Gasimporteurs Uniper erklärt Claudia Kemfert, Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt im DIW Berlin:

CO2-Differenzverträge als Schlüssel zur Dekarbonisierung in Schwellenländern

DIW-Studie nimmt Instrumente der internationalen Klimakooperation unter die Lupe – Industriestaaten verpflichten sich, Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländer bei Klimaschutzanstrengungen zu unterstützen – Konkrete Ausgestaltung der Zusammenarbeit offen - Internationale CO2-Differenzverträge können wichtigen Beitrag zu Klimafinanzierung leisten Die emissionsintensive Industrie ...

Quantitative Paneldaten

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