Fast eine Million Menschen in Deutschland leben von ihrem Vermögen. Das ist jedoch in mehrfacher Hinsicht ein Problem – für Gesellschaft, Staat und sogar die Wirtschaft. 809.000 Deutsche müssen nicht arbeiten – diese Headline der Onlineplattform Statista in meinem Tweet zu Jahresbeginn hat eine Welle an Empörung ausgelöst. Vor allem auch, weil sich diese Zahl in den vergangenen zehn Jahren fast verdoppelt ...
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 ...
In recent years, Costa Rica has experienced greater international migration from neighboring countries due to political, economic, and social reasons, raising discussions on the impact of migration on wages of native Costa Rican workers. This article is the first that disentangles the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Ricans from the impact for settled immigrants by analyzing the effect ...
Die Filmemacherin Katharina Daschner studierte von 1995 bis 2000 Bildhauerei und Transmediale Kunst bei Brigitte Kowanz an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Wien. In ihren Arbeiten beschäftigt sie sich vorwiegend mit dem Transfer von Performance- und Bühnensprachen in Ausstellungs- und Filmkontexten sowie mit genderspezifischen Machtstrukturen und der Darstellung von queerer Sexualität. Um...
In August 2022, the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a comprehensive piece of legislation aiming to stimulate the US economy and to increase its resilience. At an estimated 430 billion euros, it is a massive government investment and spending program in the welfare state, federal infrastructure, climate action, and environmental protection. At the same time, the IRA is intended ...
