Users have the possibility to participate in two upcoming SOEPcampus events. SOEPcampus@Lunch: From next month on we offer an online workshop series over lunchtime as introduction to the data of the SOEP 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 on the study documentation.To ...
Was sind Stranded Assets und warum sollte man dazu forschen? DIW-Energieökonomin Franziska Holz macht deutlich, dass es letztlich darum geht, Investor*innen frühzeitig mit den klimapolitischen Maßnahmen zu konfrontieren und ihnen klarzumachen, dass ihr Engagement in fossicles Energie womöglich nicht zum Erfolg führt und es besser ist, in Erneuerbare Energien zu investieren. Mehr Transparenz ist...
We would like to draw your attention to a special issue on „Regional Development Dynamics and Their Social, Economic and Political Consequences“ that Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig and Prof. Dr. Simon Kühne are editing in the Social Sciences journal.We’re inviting contributions focusing on (but not limited to) one or more of the following themes: Theoretical or empirical reflections ...
We investigate the impact of demographic changes on local public services taking the case of water service. We apply a structural production function approach to a large panel of German water utilities between 2003 and 2014. Exploring variation of population density and the population age structure across service areas and over time, we provide evidence that demographics and their changes significantly ...
This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and hours worked. The study is based on the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), the only large scale data set for Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on counterfactual distributions that would have...
Dieser Gastbeitrag erschien am 16. September 2022 in der WELT. Wenn die Energiepreise steigen, hat das einen positiven Nebeneffekt: Die Menschen haben einen Anreiz, Energie zu sparen. Alexander S. Kritikos und Alexander Kriwoluzky fragen: Warum macht sich der Staat das nicht zunutze und beschränkt seine Hilfen auf die, die sie existenziell brauchen? Nach den unzureichenden Entlastungspaketen 1 ...
