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Objectives: Our research provides competing hypotheses and empirical evidence how associations between objectively social isolation and subjective loneliness differ between host populations, migrants, and refugees. Methods: The analysis uses data of 25,171 participants from a random sample of the German population (SOEP v.35). We estimate regression models for the host population, migrants, and refugees ...
In:
International Journal of Public Health
67 (2022), 1604576
| Lea-Maria Löbel, Hannes Kröger, Ana Nanette Tibubos
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Over the course of the 20th century, governments have frequently used rent control to keep rents affordable, especially in times of crisis when housing is scarce. Existing research shows that rent control has undesirable side effects, such as overall societal welfare losses, market misallocation, a declining housing supply, and lower mobility. However, there has been little research examining the effect ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
12 (2022), 12, 87-95
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl
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Das Instrument kann nur erfolgreich sein, wenn die Regeln eingehalten werden. Der Gastbeitrag von Johannes Seebauer, Arbeitsmarktökonom am DIW Berlin.
In:
Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) online, 2022-03-24
(2022),
| Johannes Seebauer
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Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and benefactors of welfare and asks how the public perception of the rich and the poor drives redistributive preferences. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1182)
| Matthias Diermeier, Madeleine L. Fischer, Judith Niehues
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The 2022 natural gas price spikes across Europe raised concerns regarding their distributional consequences. This paper investigates the distributional effect of price increases between and, in particular, within different income groups in Germany, accounting for different determinants of gas expenditures. The study finds that low-income households are affected the most by the gas price increase. Low-income ...
In:
Energy Policy
175 (2023), 113472
| Mats Kröger, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff, Franziska Schütze
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What is the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health? Although economists and policymakers are certain about the health implications of housing upgrades, empirical evidence is largely missing or else only based on small-scale experiments in developing countries. This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates based on a large-scale refurbishment program that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1186)
| Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios
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This study examines how retirement options for husbands and wives impact their labour supply decisions using a regression discontinuity design. In the context of German pension reforms, which have tightened early retirement possibilities, we find that coordination in retirement decisions between spouses was more prevalent and symmetrical before the reforms, but less so after. This sheds light on the ...
In:
Labour Economics
91 (2024), 102627
| Hamed Markazi Moghadam, Patrick A. Puhani, Joanna Tyrowicz
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Ein Unfall, eine chronische Erkrankung oder auch eine angeborene Behinderung sind häufige Ursachen für den Verlust der Erwerbsfähigkeit. Der Wegfall des Erwerbseinkommens wird zwar durch die Erwerbsminderungsrente in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung versichert. Diese Rente ist aber so niedrig, dass Erwerbsgeminderte einem sehr hohen Armutsrisiko ausgesetzt sind und überdurchschnittlich häufig Leistungen ...
In:
DIW Wochenbericht
90 (2023), 17, 191-197
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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An accident, a chronic illness, or even a congenital disability are common causes of a loss of earning capacity. Although the loss of earned income is insured through the reduced earning capacity pension in the statutory pension insurance scheme, the amount received is so low that people with reduced earning capacity are at very high risk of poverty and there is a higher-than-average likelihood of ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
13 (2023), 17/18, 123-129
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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It is often argued that institutionalized after-school care (ASC) can benefit children lacking adequate homework support at home and, hence, foster equality of opportunity. However, despite considerable policy interest, it is unclear whether these afternoon programs are beneficial for child development and if selection into them is efficient, i.e., whether students benefiting most from the programs ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(DIW Discussion Paper 2006)
| Laura Schmitz