A very warm welcome to the 2022 EEA Congress! Time to say good-bye to speaking on mute, to formal shirts worn over tracksuit bottoms, to pets pouncing from blurred backgrounds….. We look forward to seeing you in the wonderful city of Milan where our hosts at Bocconi University are getting everything ready to make our congress fun and productive within their spectacular campus.
Intergenerational relations have received close attention in the context of population aging and increased childcare provision by grandparents. However, few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of becoming a grandparent. In a preregistered test of grandparenthood as a developmental task in middle and older adulthood, we used representative panel data from the Netherlands (N = 563) ...
Common ownership - when an investor holds shares in two or more companies - has recently attracted significant attention from policy-makers and researchers, studying mainly US firms. European firms, however, are different as top investors with large stakes, like governments, founding families and foundations are much more prevalent. This paper takes a well-known common ownership with micro-economic ...
Der Fachkräftemangel lässt sich besser bekämpfen als mit der Rente ab 70. Die Regierung muss endlich die Hürden für Frauen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt aus dem Weg räumen. Rente ab 70 und 42 Stunden Wochenarbeitszeit – diesen Vorschlag verbreitete Gesamtmetall-Chef Stefan Wolf vor den anstehenden Tarifverhandlungen. Damit will er den Arbeitskräftemangel lindern und ...
The transition to low-carbon economies requires massive investments into renewable energies, which are commonly supported through regulatory frameworks. Yet, governments can have incentives – and the ability – to deviate from previously announced support policies once those investments have been made, which can deter investments. We analyze a renewable energy dynamic regulation game and derive under ...
Der SLOW 2022 wird gemeinschaftlich ausgerichtet von SOEP (DIW) und SHARE (SHARE Berlin Institute/MEA). SLOW richtet sich an alle die am Produktionsprozess sozialwissenschaftlicher Befragungen beteiligt sind und sich mit ihrer operativen Umsetzung beschäftigen. Thematisch können/wollen wir alles diskutieren, was dabei – fancy: im Survey Lifecycle – an Themen aufkommt, bspw....
Die Bundesregierung will die Mehrwertsteuer auf Erdgas befristet auf sieben Prozent von 19 Prozent senken. Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), kommentiert dies wie folgt:
