Gut 61 Prozent der Wahlberechtigten in Deutschland haben bei der Europawahl ihre Stimme abgegeben – rund 13 Prozentpunkte mehr als fünf Jahre zuvor. Dass wieder mehr Menschen ihr urdemokratisches Recht wahrnehmen, wählen zu gehen, ist grundsätzlich zu begrüßen. Schade ist nur, dass sehr viele junge Menschen, die die Europapolitik der kommenden Jahre sehr viel angehen ...
A large corpus of literature investigates how the presence of ethnic and economic out-group affects pro-social behavior. However, some long-standing theoretical controversies have not yet been resolved and empirical results are mixed. On the one hand, researchers associated with social identity and group-threat theories argue that out-group presence will drive down the pro-social behavior...
Current research on maternal and parental leave focuses on leave take-up and employment outcomes, finding that short leaves have beneficial labor market outcomes. As the US faces below replacement fertility and an aging population, we need to consider potential unintended fertility consequences of these policies. Generous European and Australian leave policies have increased fertility and...
The need to realise sustainable economic development, which preserves the basis for human existence, is now widely recognised. Natural resources must be used more economically and the burden on the environment eased. The traditional instruments of environmental policy, in particular the use of regulatory law dominant in Germany, are inadequate for this purpose and induce economic costs which are unnecessarily ...
Internationale Gutachten zum Klimawandel stimmen darin überein, dass zur Begrenzung der Globalen Erwärmung auf das 2°C-Ziel ein tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher Wandel vonnöten ist. Veränderungen in der Nutzung und Erzeugung von Energie, Flächennutzung, Ernährungsweise und Lebensstil sind nicht nur notwendig, um die globale Erwärmung zu begrenzen, sondern auch, um sich an das veränderte Klima und ...
Although electricity supply is still dominated by fossil fuels, it is expected that renewable sources will have a much larger contribution in the future due to the need to mitigate climate change. Therefore, this paper presents a new framework for developing Future Electricity Scenarios (FuturES) with high penetration of renewables. A multi-period linear programming model has been created for power-system ...
