6,2 Millionen Menschen profitieren von der neuen Midijob-Regelung seit 1. Januar 2023. Darunter sind viele Frauen, Alleinerziehende und Teilzeiterwerbstätige. Midijobber*innen zahlen weniger in Rentenversicherung ein, haben aber keine geminderten Rentenansprüche, die Differenz wird durch eine Umverteilung in der Rentenversicherung ausgeglichen. Die Rentenkasse kostet diese Umverteilung eine...
GC Doctoral Candidate Dennis Gaus of the Energy, Transportation, and Environment department will be completing a six-month internship at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from March 1st onwards. He will be working on a project on the determinants and effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) within the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CfE). ...
A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere arrived in Germany. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this inflow changed the public opinion ...
In recent years, Costa Rica has experienced greater international migration from neighboring countries due to political, economic, and social reasons, raising discussions on the impact of migration on wages of native Costa Rican workers. This article is the first that disentangles the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Ricans from the impact for settled immigrants by analyzing the effect ...
Die Filmemacherin Katharina Daschner studierte von 1995 bis 2000 Bildhauerei und Transmediale Kunst bei Brigitte Kowanz an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Wien. In ihren Arbeiten beschäftigt sie sich vorwiegend mit dem Transfer von Performance- und Bühnensprachen in Ausstellungs- und Filmkontexten sowie mit genderspezifischen Machtstrukturen und der Darstellung von queerer Sexualität. Um...
In August 2022, the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a comprehensive piece of legislation aiming to stimulate the US economy and to increase its resilience. At an estimated 430 billion euros, it is a massive government investment and spending program in the welfare state, federal infrastructure, climate action, and environmental protection. At the same time, the IRA is intended ...
Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the influence of the task-related construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we take a different perspective and ...
