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Die Gaspreisbremse ist unsozial

Die Gaskrise und das Schreckgespenst der Deindustrialisierung

Die stark gestiegenen Energiepreise bringen auch viele Unternehmen in die Bredouille. Die Bundesregierung will die schlimmsten Auswüchse mit milliardenschweren Hilfsprogrammen abfedern. Doch das sind bislang nur teure Trostpflaster, schreibt Prof. Claudia Kemfert im Gastbeitrag. Um Einsparpotentiale zu heben, sollte der Bund die Auszahlung an Auflagen koppeln, fordert die Energieökonomin. ...

Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981–2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?

The objective of this paper is to better understand the evolution and institutional roots of Hong Kong's growing economic inequality and political cleavages. By combining multiple sources of data (household surveys, fiscal data, wealth rankings, national accounts) and methodological innovations, two main findings are obtained. First, he evidence suggests a very large rise in income and wealth inequality ...

Die Gaskrise und das Schreckgespenst der Deindustrialisierung

NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

AbstractIn this paper, we study the consequences of the NAFTA introduction on illicit drug trafficking from Mexico to the US. We argue that NAFTA's open border policy reduced average detection rates of illegal drug trafficking from Mexico into the US along their national common border, which increased potential rents for all drug-trafficking organizations, and ultimately led to increased...

Educational Selectivity and Immigrants’ Labour Market Performance in Europe

This article depicts the selectivity profiles of first-generation immigrants of multiple origins in 18 European destinations and investigates whether educational selectivity is relevant to their labour market performance. The theoretical account starts from the premise that the relative position individuals occupy in the educational distribution of their origin country represents—frequently unmeasured—characteristics ...

Einkommen und Kreditschulden privater Haushalte

Die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Coronapandemie haben im Jahr 2020 zu einem deutlichen Rückgang des realen BIP in Deutschland geführt. Für Erwerbstätige führte die Krise zu Arbeitsplatzverlusten, Einkommensverlusten – teilweise kompensiert durch Kurzarbeitergeld – und Rückgängen beim Einkommen aus Selbstständigkeit. Während sich die Einkommensseite für die privaten Haushalte damit schwach bis ...

Does Green Public Procurement Trigger Environmental Innovations?

Green public procurement has gained high political priority and is argued to be an effective demand-side policy to trigger environmental innovations. However, the empirical evidence on its innovation impact is limited. We construct a novel firm-level dataset to investigate the effect of winning public procurement tenders with additional environmental award criteria on firms’ introduction of environmental ...

Measurement Equivalence in Probability and Nonprobability Online Panels

Nonprobability online panels are commonly used in the social sciences as a fast and inexpensive way of collecting data in contrast to more expensive probability-based panels. Given their ubiquitous use in social science research, a great deal of research is being undertaken to assess the properties of nonprobability panels relative to probability ones. Much of this research focuses on selection bias, ...

Mentoring as a Grassroots Effort for Integrating Refugees – Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment

About 80 million people were displaced worldwide at the end of 2020. To support this highly vulnerable group, in recent years, local bottom-up initiatives proliferated to support refugee integration in hosting communities. This study examines a network intervention for refugees in collaboration with a social start-up whose mission is to match refugees and local volunteers to form friendships. We apply ...