Wissenschaftliche Podcasts haben enorm an Popularität gewonnen. Ihre Inhalte erreichen ein Publikum jenseits von akademischen Zeitschriften und Konferenzen und bieten damit neue Möglichkeiten für Wissenstransfer und Dialog. Im Rahmen der Berlin Science Week fand am Mittwoch im DIW Berlin die hybride Veranstaltung „Narrating for New Narratives“ statt, organisiert vom Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit ...
We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory minimum wage. Based on this legal situation, our theoretical model predicts that non-compliance is less ...
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz hat sich heute in einer Regierungserklärung zu den Folgen des Haushaltsurteils des Bundesverfassungsgerichts geäußert. Dazu eine Einordnung von Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labour supply and ...
We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status as main factors that shape the relationship between occupational status and life satisfaction. Senior entrepreneurs enjoy higher levels of life satisfaction than ...
Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents’ integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). Using a regression discontinuity design around the school ...
Kaum wurde der Regelsatz für das Bürgergeld erhöht, gab es die erwartbaren Reaktionen: Der Lohnabstand sei nicht mehr gewahrt, es werde zu wenig sanktioniert und überhaupt gäbe es zu wenig Mitwirkungspflichten. Auch die Forderung, Empfänger von Bürgergeld zu gemeinnütziger Arbeit zu verpflichten, ließ nicht lange auf sich warten. Wie sich solche lautstark vorgetragenen Forderungen in der Realität ...
We present an economics framework appropriate to the exceptionally broad scope of the climate change problem. This considers that economic and social processes, particularly those involved in purposive transitions of energy technologies and systems, involve the interplay between three distinct domains of decision-making and associated actors. The first concerns small-scale and often short-term decision-making, ...
