Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer’s perspective, in their fertile age they are also at “risk” of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a large-scale correspondence test in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, sending out approx. 9,000 job applications, varying job candidate’s personal ...
By merging administrative data on public finances of all municipalities in Germany with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we explore whether local public expenditures on sports facilities influences individual labor market outcomes. Our identification strategy follows a selection-on-observables approach and exploits the panel structure of the data covering 12 years between 2001 ...
This paper studies the experience of Europe's three most liberalised railways - Sweden, Germany and Britain - in opening-up rail passenger services to competition by means of competitive tendering, and seeks to draw lessons for countries that are just starting the process, such as France. It also comments on experience of competition in the market in these and other countries (this form of competition ...
Die Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance trifft sich zu regelmäßigen Forschungstreffen um aktuelle Forschungsthemen und –projekte zu diskutieren und deren Relevanz für den politischen Diskurs auf nationaler und EU Ebene zu erörtern. Ziel des Forschungstreffens ist ein offener, informeller Austausch, um den Diskurs über nachhaltige Finanzwesen aus Sicht der...
The Sustainable Finance Platform meets regularly for research meetings to discuss current research topics and projects and their relevance for the political discourse at national and EU level. The aim of the research meetings is an open, informal exchange to promote the discourse on sustainable finance from a research perspective and to cooperate constructively on the basis of our different...
German voters in the 2019 European election showed remarkable regional differences in their voting behavior. The Green Party surged in West German districts, while the AfD further consolidated its successes in East Germany. Investigating structural differences at the district level reveals that the Green party is particularly popular in economically strong, demographically young, and dynamic districts ...
