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Wir müssen dringend wieder mehr reisen

Mit wachsendem Wohlstand steigt der Wunsch zu reisen. Daran wird sich auch künftig nichts ändern. Und das ist auch gut so – trotz Klimawandel und Pandemien. Dieser Text erschien am 28. Juni 2021 in der Zeit Online-Kolumne Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen. "Reisen ist fatal für Vorurteile, Intoleranz und Engstirnigkeit" schrieb Mark Twain. Wenn er recht hat, dann war die Pandemie keine ...

Jan Berkes has successfully defended his dissertation

Jan Berkes has successfully defended his dissertation "Causes and Consequences of Educational Attainment and Household Decisions - Six Essays in Applied Microeconomics" supervised by Katharina Spieß (1st supervisor) and Lukas Menkhoff (2nd supervisor) at Free University Berlin. Congratulations!

Daniel Graeber has successfully defended his dissertation with summa cum laude

Daniel Graeber has successfully (with summa cum laude!) defended his dissertation "Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Individual Health as well as Public Health Crises" supervised by Professor Dr. Marco Caliendo (1st supervisor) and Professor Dr. Daniel D. Schnitzlein (2nd supervisor) at University of Potsdam. Congratulations!

Daniel Graeber has successfully (with summa cum laude!) defended his dissertation

Daniel Graeber has successfully (with summa cum laude!) defended his dissertation "Socio-Economic Causes and Consequences of Individual Health as well as Public Health Crises" supervised by Professor Dr. Marco Caliendo (1st supervisor) and Professor Dr. Daniel D. Schnitzlein (2nd supervisor) at University of Potsdam. Congratulations!

Jan Berkes has successfully defended his dissertation

Jan Berkes has successfully defended his dissertation "Causes and Consequences of Educational Attainment and Household Decisions - Six Essays in Applied Microeconomics" supervised by Katharina Spieß (1st supervisor) and Lukas Menkhoff (2nd supervisor) at Free University Berlin. Congratulations!

Wir müssen dringend wieder mehr reisen

Taxing inheritances – a way to raise revenues and curb wealth inequality?

In Germany, 200 to 400 billion euros are inherited or donated every year. Inheritances are unevenly distributed, with wealthy households receiving far greater inheritances than poor households, and inheritances and gifts are taxed only lightly compared with earned income. As inequalities are increasing, particularly since the onset of the COVID crisis, and governments are under pressure to find...

Dazugehören und zusammenhalten: Die Corona-Pandemie offenbart die Herausforderungen der Familienpolitik wie in einem Brennglas: Editorial

Disentangling Covid-19, Economic Mobility, and Containment Policy Shocks

We study the dynamic impact of Covid-19, economic mobility, and containment policy shocks. We use Bayesian panel structural vector autoregressions with daily data for 44 countries, identified through sign and zero restrictions. Incidence and mobility shocks raise cases and deaths significantly for two months. Restrictive policy shocks lower mobility immediately, cases after one week, and deaths after ...

Finanzielle Bildung könnte viele vor der Schuldenfalle retten

Dieser Gastbeitrag von Jana Hamdan ist am 02.06.2021 im Tagesspiegel erschienen. Viele Haushalte sind durch Jobverlust und Einkommenseinbußen in die Schuldenfalle geraten. Das sorgt für immensen Stress bei den Betroffenen. Laut Statistischem Bundesamt wurden 2020 circa 588.000 Menschen in Schuldner- und Insolvenzberatungsstellen beraten, 6000 mehr als 2019 – trotz der eingeschränkten ...