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Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through Energy Access: Lessons from the Global South

Under the banner of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), governments, industry, and civil society organisations have supported many energy access projects since 2015. Notably, funding and investments allotted to renewable energy are regarded not only to provide ‘energy for all’ but also support the delivery of other SDGs related to climate change, food security, health, and poverty ...

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Pandemic-induced Psychosocial Stress in Different Life Domains among the Working-Age Population

Background Psychosocial stress is considered a risk factor for physical and mental ill-health. Evidence on socioeconomic inequalities with regard to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is still limited. We aimed to investigate how pandemic-induced psychosocial stress (PIPS) in different life domains differed between socioeconomic groups.MethodsData came from the German ...

#18 Elektro-Lkw: Batterien oder Wasserstoff? - Das ist hier die Frage!

Wolf-Peter Schill und Alexander Roth sprechen dieses Mal über elektrische Lkw! Wobei sie erst mal klären müssen, was Lkw eigentlich sind, und ob es nicht vielmehr um Sattelzüge geht. Die beiden erklären, warum der Straßengüterverkehr wichtig ist, welche Optionen es gibt, um ihn zu dekarbonisieren, und mit welchen Argumenten sich die Wirtschaftsweisen für oder gegen die Förderung von...

Advertising in Online Labor Markets: A Signal of Freelancer Quality?

Freelancers face cold-start problems in online labor markets: getting hired is very difficult without ratings, while obtaining a rating is impossible unless already having been hired. According to economic theory and empirical evidence, advertising can serve as a signal of product quality for experience goods. As such, advertising might help skilled new freelancers without reputation on a platform ...

Ende der konjunkturellen Schwächephase: Deutsche Wirtschaft kommt in Gang

DIW Berlin erhöht Prognose für Wirtschaftswachstum im laufenden Jahr auf 0,3 Prozent – Zuwachs von 1,3 Prozent für 2025 erwartet – Kauflaune der privaten Haushalte verbessert sich – Restriktive Finanzpolitik belastet – Weltwirtschaft wächst mit Unterstützung der fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften Die deutsche Wirtschaft berappelt sich – wenn auch nur langsam. Nach der aktuellen Prognose des Deutschen ...

Konjunkturprognose: Konsumausgaben und Wachstum stärken Wirtschaft

Verhaltener Optimismus für die deutsche Wirtschaft: Editorial

Life Course and Inequality Research Group

Social inequality remains a pivotal challenge in many developed welfare states. Fundamental societal changes, such as an aging population, evolving gender roles, shifting family structures, and transformations in labor markets, potentially moderates these inequalities. In response, the research group "Life Course and Inequality" investigates how social inequalities develop across and between the...

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, ...