SOEP Senior Research Fellow Philipp Lersch was granted one of the highest endowed research grants of the European Commission, the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. He successfully competed with his project “WEALTHTRAJECT: Understanding Trajectories of Wealth Accumulation and Their Variability.” From December 2024, the project will receive approximately two million Euros over the next ...
Die Bundesregierung plant schärfere Sanktionen für Bürgergeld-Beziehende und will damit rund 170 Millionen Euro pro Jahr einsparen. Damit kommt sie einerseits den Bürgergeld-Kritikern entgegen und trägt andererseits zu den geforderten Haushaltseinsparungen bei. Dieser Gastbeitrag von Jürgen Schupp erschien am 19. Januar 2024 bei Focus Online. Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe, könnte man meinen, wenn die ...
Migranten sind laut einer Studie ein Minusgeschäft für den Staat. Das ist absurdes, menschenfeindliches Nullsummendenken. Migrantinnen und Migranten seien eine untragbare finanzielle Belastung für Deutschland, ist das Ergebnis einer neuen Studie der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft. Die Studie (PDF) dürfte die Rechtsextremen und den Populismus weiter befeuern, zumal die Stiftung Marktwirtschaft den Autor der ...
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 ...
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, ...
The number of women serving on the executive boards of large companies in Germany once again increased in 2023: Around 18 percent (153 of 875) of executive board members at the 200 largest companies were women as of late fall 2023, two percentage points higher than in 2022. Thus, growth has slightly picked up again. In some of the groups of companies analyzed, the figure was even higher. Around 23 ...
