This paper evaluates the effects of immigration on health in the workplace. Using rich linked employer-employee data, I demonstrate that firms with a higher concentration of foreign workers experience lower rates of long-term sick leave among native employees. The effect on the total sick rate is smaller in magnitude. The results are consistent with foreign employment alleviating understaffing and...
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Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact of a large daycare expansion in...
This research investigates the relationship between perceived economic mobility and populist support, focusing on the US and Germany. Amidst an escalating wave of populism that challenges democratic institutions in the West, it explores whether low upward mobility fuels the perception of exclusion in a system that favors a select 'establishment’. To test a causal relationship, a survey experiment...
While nouns in the German language are gendered toward males, the introduction of the "gender star" or "gender colon"' have allowed for nouns to be interpreted as not assigning gender, or non-binary. Their usage however has become highly politically polarizing. Using over 40 million online job postings from 2016 to 2023, we document the rising prevalence of the gender star and colon in the German...
This paper analyzes the effect of exposure to foreign mass media on environmental awareness and pro-environmental behavior. We exploit a natural experiment occurring in the German Democratic Republic, where the reception of West German television was determined by geographic characteristics. Western media was a reliable source of information about environmental pollution in the German Democratic...
Im dritten und letzten Teil unserer kleinen Trilogie zu Wärmepumpen und zum Gebäudeenergiegesetz sprechen wir darüber, was eigentlich im Stromsektor passiert, wenn wir verstärkt Wärmepumpen nutzen. Das machen wir wieder nicht allein, sondern mit Unterstützung unserer Kollegin Dana Kirchem. Mit ihr haben wir dazu kürzlich eine modellbasierte Studie gemacht. Eine wichtige Frage dabei ist, wie sich...
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Das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. (DIW Berlin) und dessen Vorstand schließen sich der Solidaritätsbekundung der Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen gegenüber Israel an. "Die Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen spricht allen Opfern der terroristischen Angriffe auf Israel ihre aufrichtige Anteilnahme aus. Unser Mitgefühl gilt insbesondere unseren Freund*innen und Kolleg*innen ...
