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Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life Cycle

We decompose earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks, we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. For estimation, we use data on married American men from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Permanent wage shocks explain ...

Kompromiss zur Kindergrundsicherung ist eine verpasste Chance

Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), kommentiert die Einigung der Bundesregierung im Streit um die Kindergrundsicherung:

Statement zur Einigung bei der Kindergrundsicherung

Income-Based Family Typology and Child Development: Evidence from the UK

Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children’s development, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative earnings. The traditional “male-breadwinner” model is no longer the only type of family that has been observed throughout recent decades; the “dual-breadwinner” family ...

Fünf Mythen zu Kinderarmut und Kindergrundsicherung

Finanzminister Christian Lindner bringt neue Argumente gegen die Kindergrundsicherung in den Diskurs ein. Doch sie beruhen auf Missverständnissen. Zeit, sie auszuräumen. Im öffentlichen Diskurs über die Kindergrundsicherung nennt Bundesfinanzminister Christian Lindner zwei neue Argumente: Die Entwicklung der Kinderarmut in Deutschland seit 2015 sei dahingehend positiv, dass viele "ursprünglich deutsche ...

Trendwende beim privaten Konsum erreicht

Das Statistische Bundesamt hat heute die ausführlichen Ergebnisse zur Wirtschaftsleistung in Deutschland im zweiten Quartal 2023 vorgestellt. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Jan-Christopher Scherer, Experte für die deutsche Konjunktur im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):

Economic Determinants of Populism

The rise of populism challenges numerous Western democracies and their institutions. In this round-up, we examine economic and societal conditions that are driving forces behind populism. We focus on five domains that are closely interlinked with populist support: globalization, financial crises, migration, inequality, and social mobility. Each domain offers unique insights into how societal shifts, ...

Economic Determinants of Populism

The rise of populism challenges numerous Western democracies and their institutions. In this round-up, we examine economic and societal conditions that are driving forces behind populism. We focus on five domains that are closely interlinked with populist support: globalization, financial crises, migration, inequality, and social mobility. Each domain offers unique insights into how societal...

Economic Determinants of Populism

The rise of populism challenges numerous Western democracies and their institutions. In this round-up, we examine economic and societal conditions that are driving forces behind populism. We focus on five domains that are closely interlinked with populist support: globalization, financial crises, migration, inequality, and social mobility. Each domain offers unique insights into how societal...

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