We conduct a stated preference experiment to analyze the effects of pension incentives, increasing retirement age, and provision of a partial retirement scheme on individuals’ preferences to work parttime and full-time beyond the early and legal retirement ages. We conduct the experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, and the United States for an international comparative analysis.
This paper presents a novel theoretical framework to explain the occurrence of corruption in public procurement. It extends the agency cost-padding model by Laffont and Tirole (1992) to allow for the principal to be a partially selfish politician who can design the contract auditing policy. It is found that a benevolent politician, by choosing a sufficiently strict auditing, deters the contracting ...
Seit Greta Thunberg und den Fridays for Future-Demonstrationen ist der Klimawandel in aller Munde – gerade auch unter den Politikern. Im Januar hat die neue EU-Kommissionschefin Ursula von der Leyen konkretes zum Green New Deal verkündet. Demnach soll Europa als erster Kontinent bis zum Jahr 2050 klimaneutral sein. Das bedeutet, dass neue Produkte und Dienstleistungen den Anteil von Treibhausgas in ...
Women around the world are on the move but find it difficult to secure jobs. Employment is vital for migrant integration as it affords financial security, autonomy in the family and helps to establish social contacts. Besides human capital, previous research has looked into ethnic origin and specific source country aspects as drivers of female migrant employment. By contrast, ideas of adolescence as ...
Caterina Forti Grazzini has successfully defended her dissertation "Three Essays in Empirical Finance" supervised by Dieter Nautz (1st supervisor) and Alexander Kriwolutzsky (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
Felicitas Schikora has successfully defended her dissertation "The Economics Implications of Migration" supervised by Carsten Schröder (1st supervisor) and Panu Poutvaara (2nd supervisor) at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations!
Claire Samtleben has successfully defended her dissertation "Care and Careers: Gender Differences in the Reconciliation of Work and Family" supervised by Anette Fasang and Jutta Allmendinger at Humboldt-Universität. Congratulations!
