Wissenschaftlerin zu Fernwärme-Kauf: „Politik sollte den Preisrahmen vorgeben“ Dieses Interview mit Franziska Holz erschien am 3. Mai 2024 beim Tagesspiegel. Der Berliner Senat will die Fernwärme kontrollieren, um mehr Klimaschutz und Preisstabilität zu erlangen: Wird diese Rechnung aufgehen? Franziska Holz: Wichtig sind die langfristigen Weichenstellungen in Richtung Dekarbonisierung. Bisher ...
In diesem Projekt werden wir die Auswirkungen von Arbeitslosigkeit, Elternzeit und Kurzarbeit auf die Karriere von Männern und Frauen sowie auf die geschlechtsspezifische Aufteilung der unbezahlten Betreuungsarbeit in den Familien untersuchen und vergleichen. Insbesondere wollen wir die Frage beantworten, ob unfreiwilliger bezahlter Urlaub in Form von Kurzarbeit die geschlechtsspezifischen...
In this project, we will evaluate and compare the impact of unemployment, parental leave and short- time work on the careers of men and women, as well as on the gender division of unpaid care work within families. In particular, we address the question of whether involuntary paid leave in form of short-time work affects gender gaps in the labor market as well as the existing gender division of...
Making macroeconomics fit for a climate-neutral future: The European Union decided to be climate-neutral by 2050 and, hence, become the first climate-neutral continent in the world. Becoming climate-neutral can be considered one of the biggest challenges in our industrial societies. This transition will shape our future tremendously. The invasion of Ukraine further reinforced the necessity to speed ...
Critical discussions about decarbonising our economy: This new series brings together leading thinkers in the political economy of the environment to discuss why business as usual is still going so strong, despite the scientific evidence that urgent action is needed. In this series, we ask our guests "what is holding up the green transition"? The events explore systemic root causes of the climate crisis ...
Economic policy approaches for the climate-critical decade: Part I of the Policy Forum brings together leading experts from the fields of Green Growth, Postgrowth, and Degrowth to debate their different visions for the pathway toward sustainable economies. We will give room to separately explore the ideas and arguments of Green Growth and Postgrowth/Degrowth and bring the different approaches together ...
German companies view high and uncertain electricity prices a major challenge. A Renewable Energy Pool (RE-Pool), wherein the favorable conditions of competitive tenders for new wind and solar power projects are passed on to electricity consumers, could hedge such price risks. Consumers’ electricity prices are thus hedged for the share of their consumption that corresponds to the RE-Pool’s generation ...
We investigate if and how adverse life events – early widowhood, divorce, disability, job loss - trigger informal insurance responses in the form of intervivos gifts. Drawing from Dutch register data, we construct comprehensive panels comprising individuals undergoing such shocks in the period 2011-2017, and we analyse the patterns of gift receipt surrounding these events. We run separate event...
