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Die privat bereitgestellte Pflege braucht sichere Rahmenbedingungen

Pflege ist für viele Familien weder zu stemmen noch zu bezahlen. Es braucht einen rechtlichen Rahmen für die häusliche 24-Stunden-Pflege und Ideen für ihre Finanzierung. Dieser Gastbeitrag erschien am 2. Juli 2021 auf Zeit Online. Auch in der häuslichen 24-Stunden-Pflege muss der Mindestlohn bezahlt werden – das hat kürzlich das Bundesarbeitsgericht (BAG) geurteilt. ...

Merger Efficiency Gains: Evidence from a Large Transport Merger in France

Many industries are seeing an increase in concentration, leading to a discussion on the effectiveness of horizontal merger enforcement. The policy debate shows that one of the key arguments put forward when supporting potential mergers is the possibility of realization of merger efficiency gains, specifically in the transport industry. Yet, there exists little empirical evidence on the actual effects ...

Panel Data in Research on Mobility and Migration: A Review of Recent Advances

Panel data has become the gold standard for causal assessments of complex human behaviour in quantitative social science. The objective of this review is to examine and discuss how panel data and related methods contribute to the identification of causal relationships in spatial mobility research. We illustrate this by providing a succinct overview of recent progress in spatial mobility research, drawing ...

Climate Neutrality Requires Coordinated Measures for High Quality Recycling

For Europe to reach climate neutrality by mid-century, it needs to move toward a circular economy. Waste avoidance, reuse, and recycling save primary resources and avoid emissions in the production of basic materials like steel, cement, and plastics. Without exploring circular economy potentials, switching production to climate-neutral processes alone would result in significant costs and tremendous ...

Culture, Children and Couple Gender Inequality

This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture (East Germany) to those in a gender-traditional culture (West Germany). Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on the female income share is 26.9 percentage ...

The Multifaceted Impact of US Trade Policy on Financial Markets

We study the multifaceted effects and persistence of trade policy shocks on financial markets in a structural vector autoregression. The model is identified via event day heteroskedasticity. We find that restrictive US trade policy shocks affect US and international stock prices heterogeneously, but generally negatively, increasing market uncertainty, lowering interest rates, and leading to an appreciation ...

DIW Berlin veröffentlicht Studie im Rahmen der Internationalen Klimaschutzinitiative (IKI)

Wie kann internationale öffentliche Klimafinanzierung gestaltet werden, um die Klimapolitik von Partnerländern effektiv zu unterstützen? Das auf vier Jahre angelegte Projekt der Abteilung Klimapolitik beleuchtet wirksame Schritte zum Erreichen der Pariser Klimaziele in Zusammenarbeit mit vier weiteren Forschungseinrichtungen in Brasilien, Indien, Indonesien und Südafrika. Am Beispiel ...

DIW Berlin publishes study as part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI)

How can international public climate finance effectively support climate policy of partner countries? The four-year project of the Climate Policy Department sheds light on effective steps to achieve the Paris climate goals in cooperation with four other research institutes in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa. DIW Berlin examines in a new study how international public climate finance (ICF) ...

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On the Right Track? – The Role of Work Experience in Migrant Mothers’ Current Employment Probability

This paper investigates the role of work experience in migrant mothers’ current employment in Germany. Unlike previous papers, we focus on actual experience and add the motherhood aspect. To this end, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 2013-2018 including the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. Having immigrated to Germany and female sex are the two treatments of our sample of 491 migrant mothers, ...