We evaluate German purchase subsidies for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) using data on new vehicle registrations in Germany during 2015-2022. We account for confounding time trends and interacting EU-level CO2 standards using neighboring countries as a control group. The program was cost-ineffective, as only 40% of BEV and 25% of PHEV registrations were ...
Angesichts der hohen Kinderarmut in Deutschland sollte die neue Kindergrundsicherung rasch kommen. Doch die Gefahr ist groß, dass das Projekt aus Kostengründen scheitert. Vielen Kindern in Deutschland geht es nicht gut. Denn fast jedes fünfte Kind ist von Armut bedroht. Besonders diese Kinder leiden unter der hohen Inflation. Zudem gehören Kinder und Jugendliche zu den Hauptleidtragenden der Corona-Pandemie. ...
Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of workers’ gross wages, this finding suggests that it pays off to be a union member. Our results show that the ...
A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere arrived in Germany. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this inflow changed the public opinion ...
