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The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance

Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as job creation, expansion ...

Energieverbrauch durch Heizen und Klimatisierung von Haushalten sowie Entscheidungen zu Wärmesanierungen

Der Energieverbrauch für das Heizen von Haushalten gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Kurzfristig ist die Einsparung von Gas - und damit von Wärme - zu einem zentralen politischen Ziel in der derzeitigen Energiekrise geworden. Nur wenn die Haushalte genügend Gas einsparen, kann eine Einschränkung der industriellen Gasnachfrage vermieden werden. Gaseinsparungen verringern zusätzlich die Knappheit auf...

Drivers of residential energy use for heating and cooling and thermal retrofit decisions

Energy consumption for household heating is capturing increasing attention. In the short-term, gas – and thus heat–saving has become a core policy objective in the current energy crisis. Only if households save sufficient gas will it be possible to avoid curtailment of industrial energy gas demand. Gas savings will also reduce scarcity on the markets, and thus is an important element to mitigate...

Ein gemischtes Zwischenzeugnis für die Ampel

Ein Jahr regieren SPD, Grüne und FDP zusammen – mit erstaunlichem Pragmatismus und Erfolgen für die Sozialpolitik. Doch es gibt Fehler, die schwere Folgen haben könnten. Die Umfragewerte der aktuellen Bundesregierung sind nach ihrem ersten Jahr auf dem Tiefpunkt. Die FDP kratzt nach Niederlagen in den Landtagswahlen in diesem Jahr bei Umfragen bundesweit an der Fünfprozenthürde. Die SPD liegt mit weniger ...

Electricity Market Design 2030 - 2050: Shaping Future Electricity Markets for a Climate-Neutral Europe

Workshop-Serie: Learn to use SOEP over lunch (18./25. Januar und 1. Februar 2023)

On January 18, January 25, and February 1, 2023 the online workshop "SOEPcampus: Learn to use SOEP over lunch" takes place again. This online workshop series offers a short online introduction to the data of the Socio-economic panel study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview ...

Wealth Accumulation in Germany: Current Trends and Drivers

The dynamic recent development of asset prices, especially of real estate since 2010, and the widening wealth gap have sparked renewed public debate on the topic of wealth accumulation. Yet the existing literature leaves important questions about wealth accumulation unanswered: How great is the disparity in capital gains between rural and urban real estate owners? What are the drivers of wealth...

The Role of Pre-pandemic Depression for Changes in Depression, Anxiety, and Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from a Longitudinal Probability Sample of Adults from Germany

Background: The present study aims to delineate the role of preexisting depression for changes in common mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Using mixed-effects linear regression models, we analyzed data on the course of depressive (Patient Health Questionnaire-2) and anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2) symptoms as well as loneliness (three-item UCLA Loneliness Scale) ...

Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for ...

German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact of this program on the subjective survival probability. In particular, we investigate how the digitalization ...