With more than ten thousand casualties, the ongoing hybrid Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine’s productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995–2017, this paper estimates the causal effects of the Donbass war on Ukraine’s GDP. Our counterfactual estimation by the synthetic control ...
Dieser Text erschien am 14. September 2020 als Gastbeitrag in der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Ein dynamisches Gründungsgeschehen ist gerade in Krisenzeiten wünschenswert. Eines, das Wachstumsimpulse setzt, indem neu entstandene Marktlücken entdeckt und zukunftsweisende Innovationen geschaffen werden. Doch darauf können wir derzeit nur begrenzt hoffen. Die Covid-19-Krise trifft das ...
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms’ effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and finds a decrease in life satisfaction after the reforms that is more pronounced for male unemployed in west Germany. ...
Ulrike Ehrlich of the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), Lara Minkus and Moritz Hess of SOCIUM, Bremen, received the Best Paper Award 2020 for young researchers from the German Society for Demography in April 2020. The paper, entitled “Einkommensrisiko Pflege? Der Zusammenhang von familiärer Pflege und Lohn” (“The care-wage penalty: the association between family care and ...
