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Realizing the Value of Recycling – Assessing the Elements of a Policy Package

We investigate policies for increasing recycling to facilitate decarbonization within the basic material sector, including market-based policies, such as carbon pricing, advanced disposal fee and minimum recycled content requirement, and non-market policies, such as product design standard. We develop an analytical model to assess the role of these policy instruments for recycling related choices of ...

The Effect of Pension Wealth on Employment

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a difference-in-differences estimator based on administrative data from the German pension insurance and find that, on average, ...

Addressing Sexual Misconduct & Power Abuse in Academia

Data Fusion to Compensate for Insufficient Survey Coverage: Example of the German National PKT-Model

This paper presents a data fusion approach combining German National Travel Survey data with aggregate transport indicators such as passenger counts in order to generate annual passenger kilometers travelled (PKT) for the German National Transport Statistics. To cover all travel adequately, the model combines two MiD data sets (a 24-hour-trip diary and an overnight journey questionnaire) and includes ...

The Long Way to Tax Transparency: Lessons from the Early Publishers of Country-by-Country Reports

In this paper, we analyse a sample of voluntarily published country-by-country reports (CbCRs) of 35 multinational enterprises (MNEs). We assess the value added and the limitations of qualitative and quantitative information provided in the reports based on a comparison to individual MNEs’ annual financial reports and aggregate CbCR data provided by the OECD. In terms of data quality, we find that ...

Restrictions to Civil Liberties in a Pandemic and Satisfaction with Democracy

In times of crises, democracies face the challenge of balancing effective interventions with civil liberties. This study examines German states’ response during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the interplay between civil liberties and public health goals. Using state-level variation in mobility restrictions, we employ a difference-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home ...

The Effect of Migration on Careers of Natives: Evidence from Long-term Care

This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that increased foreign staffing reduces labor shortages but has diverging implications for the careers of native workers ...

#14 Eure Fragen, unsere Antworten: Teil 2 - Elektromobilität und Wärmepumpen

Ein frohes neues Jahr wünschen euch Wolf und Alex! Was ihr schon immer zur Energiewende wissen wolltet, aber nie zu fragen gewagt habt – hier ist der zweite Teil unserer Antworten. Da wir nicht alle Fragen in einer Episode beantworten konnten, gehen wir hier im Teil 2 besonders auf die Themen Elektromobilität und Wärmepumpen ein. Wie auch schon beim letzten Mal gilt: ganz einfache Antworten gibt...

Mehr Vorständinnen in großen Unternehmen – meist bleiben sie aber allein unter Männern

DIW Managerinnen-Barometer: Frauenanteil in Vorständen wieder etwas stärker gestiegen – Große Mehrheit der 200 umsatzstärksten Unternehmen beruft aber höchstens eine Vorständin – Zusätzliche Studie zeigt, dass Gender Pay Gap in einem Betrieb unter allen Beschäftigten sinkt, wenn dort mehr Frauen in Führungspositionen kommen – Mehr Engagement der Unternehmen gefragt, Aufsichtsrat spielt Schlüsselrolle Der ...

Effect of Area-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation on Mental and Physical Health: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment among Refugees in Germany

Existing studies on contextual health effects struggle to account for compositional bias, limiting causal interpretation. We use refugee dispersal in Germany as a natural experiment to study the effect of area-level socioeconomic deprivation on mental and physical health, while considering the potential mediating role of neighbourhood characteristics. Refugees subject to dispersal (n = 1466) are selected ...