Dieser Beitrag erschien bei Zeit Online. Daten zeigen: Seit den Neunzigerjahren haben Haushalte mit geringem Einkommen kaum reale Lohnsteigerungen erfahren. Das ist sozialer Sprengstoff in der aktuellen Krise. Die Sorgen um die soziale Polarisierung unserer Gesellschaft wachsen. Die zunehmende Ungleichheit bei Bildungschancen und Gesundheit in der Pandemie, die fehlende Generationengerechtigkeit beim ...
Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational challenges that come with them. Until now, however, no robust, empirical data on food bank use has been available. ...
Users have the possibility to participate in two upcoming SOEPcampus events. SOEPcampus@Lunch: From next month on we offer an online workshop series over lunchtime as introduction to the data of the SOEP study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview on the study documentation.To ...
Was sind Stranded Assets und warum sollte man dazu forschen? DIW-Energieökonomin Franziska Holz macht deutlich, dass es letztlich darum geht, Investor*innen frühzeitig mit den klimapolitischen Maßnahmen zu konfrontieren und ihnen klarzumachen, dass ihr Engagement in fossicles Energie womöglich nicht zum Erfolg führt und es besser ist, in Erneuerbare Energien zu investieren. Mehr Transparenz ist...
We would like to draw your attention to a special issue on „Regional Development Dynamics and Their Social, Economic and Political Consequences“ that Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig and Prof. Dr. Simon Kühne are editing in the Social Sciences journal.We’re inviting contributions focusing on (but not limited to) one or more of the following themes: Theoretical or empirical reflections ...
We investigate the impact of demographic changes on local public services taking the case of water service. We apply a structural production function approach to a large panel of German water utilities between 2003 and 2014. Exploring variation of population density and the population age structure across service areas and over time, we provide evidence that demographics and their changes significantly ...
