On April 10, David Kasprowski successfully completed his dissertation entitled "'Queering' Social Class. On the connection between sexual orientation, gender identity and social class" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. David submitted and defended the dissertation as part of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS). The committee consisted of Ellen Heidinger (SOEP and BGSS), Prof. Dr. ...
The Global Stocktake report emphasizes that the core benefits of the transition towards climate neutrality are key to enhancing public and political support for more ambitious action. This motivated several country studies to explore how transition indicators could be defined to enhance understanding, agreement, and implementation of climate action. In this report, transition indicators are...
Hannes Ullrich ist stellvertretender Leiter der Abteilung Unternehmen und Märkte im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin). Er leitet ein For-schungsprojekt zu künstlicher Intelligenz im Gesundheitsbereich, das durch das Förderprogramm des Europäischen Forschungsrats für Spitzenforschung finanziert wird. ChatGPT und andere Modelle generativer künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) haben im ...
A plethora of sustainable finance taxonomies are emerging worldwide to support shifting trillions for climate action. Employing a qualitative research approach, we use document analysis to assess 26 sustainable finance taxonomy frameworks worldwide that are in the developing phase or have been published and/or adopted. Based on literature and data we build a transition score (TS) to evaluate the framework’s ...
We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal caregiving to study short and long-term costs of informal caregiving in Germany. Incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system, we find that in the absence of Germany’s public long-term insurance scheme, informal elderly care has adverse and persistent effects on labor market outcomes and, ...
Geflüchtete dürfen in der Regel mindestens drei Jahre nach Anerkennung ihres Schutzstatus nicht umziehen – Studie zeigt, dass Wohnsitzregelung unpräzise ist, Integration nicht fördert und Ausländerbehörden belastet – Gezielte Zuzugssperren sind besser geeignet Großer Aufwand, kleine Wirkung: So lautet das Fazit einer Studie unter Beteiligung des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), ...
