Ja, es ist ein Verlust von unternehmerischer Freiheit, wenn es für Vorstände jetzt eine Frauenquote gibt. Aber der Schritt stärkt langfristig die Freiheit aller. Once little girls can see it, little girls can be it" – wenn kleine Mädchen einmal etwas sehen können, dann können sie dies sein – sprach die 22-jährige Poetin Amanda Gorman zur Amtseinführung ...
DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die heutige Sitzung des EZB-Rats wie folgt:
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Alexander Kritikos erschien am 19.1.2021 in der WELT. Der Wirtschaftseinbruch in Griechenland durch Corona ist enorm. Aber die Regierung Mitsotakis verteilt die Hilfsgelder der EU nicht mit der Gießkanne, sondern fördert gezielt Zukunftsprojekte: Klimaschutz, Bildung, Digitalisierung. Viele Hoffnungen der griechischen Bevölkerung ruhten auf dem neuen Premier ...
Decades of studies identify personality traits as an important predictor of life outcomes. However, previous investigations of personality-outcome associations have not taken a principled approach to covariate use or other sampling strategies to ensure the robustness of personality-outcome associations. The result is that it is unclear (1)...
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany resulted in differing gender norms regarding who should be the family breadwinner. We use data for three periods between 1983 and 2016 from the German Socio-Economic Panel. ...
This paper is the first causal study using quasi-experimental methods to identify the effect of minimum wages on the reservation wages of non-workers. We exploit variation in regional exposure to the introduction of a high-impact minimum wage in Germany in 2015, combined with survey responses about wage acceptance thresholds of job seekers. Results show a 16% increase in reservation wages among non-employed ...
Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power sector, as well as an aging coal-fired power plant fleet. Nevertheless, coal remains a major energy source in the North American energy markets. Supplementing EMF34 ...
