The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in Germany’s ability to generate timely, equity-sensitive evidence at the household level. While national surveillance systems produced daily counts of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, and deaths, they offered little insight into the social and economic conditions shaping the spread and impact of the virus. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), ...
This exploratory study examines the effects of parental socialization and parental role models at ages 7 to 10 on the entrepreneurial intentions of their children in adolescence. Analysis of German household data and more than 1,400 observations shows a moderation effect between parental role models and socialization. An adolescent’s willingness to become self-employed in the future is influenced by ...
This chapter comprises three main parts. The first part is about data sources, the definitions of income, and the methodologies used to estimate top income shares. Both the standard sources and methods used by the traditional top income studies are described. Further, new developments that employ new sources and estimation approaches are added, a detailed survey of the top-correction methods for surveys ...
Dieser Bericht untersucht die Relevanz von Emissionen entlang der Erdgas-Wertschöpfungskette sowie Optionen für deren Regulierung und Bepreisung im Rahmen der europäischen Klimapolitik. Der Einbezug direkte Emissionen aus der Lieferkette – sowohl Kohlendioxid (CO₂) als auch Methan (CH₄) – kann die Abschätzung des gesamten Klimafußabdrucks von Erdgas erheblich größer ausfallen lassen - um bis zu 35 ...
Technological progress in the field of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is set to radically transform the labor market. The transformation potential of AI varies greatly across occupations. Given that the German labor market is strongly segregated by gender, it is important to examine whether GenAI-driven transformation will affect women and men differently. When data on AI transformation ...
