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Flüchtlingshilfe: Die Spendenverlierer

Gerade tun die Deutschen zeimlich viel für die Füchtlinge. Was aber bedeutet das für andere Bedürftige?

Determinants of Residential Space Heating Expenditures in Germany

Der Wert des Klimas für Haushalte in Deutschland

Local Environmental Quality and Life-Satisfaction in Germany

The Amenity Value of Climate to German Households

Public preferences for alternative electricity mixes in post-Fukushima Japan

Using representative household survey data from Japan after the Fukushima accident, we estimate peoples' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuels in electricity generation. We rely on random parameter econometric techniques to capture various degrees of heterogeneity between the respondents, and use detailed regional information to assess how WTP varies with the distance ...

Cost Liability and Residential Space Heating Expenditures of Welfare Recipients in Germany

Why has inequality in Germany not risen further after 2005?

In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household market income inequality in Germany in the second half of the 2000s. We analyse to what extent the increasing relevance of capital income as well as the rising share of atypically employed persons have affected the development of income inequality over the last two decades. We use household data from the German ...

Insecure Alliances: Risk, Inequality, and Support for the Welfare State

Popular support for the welfare state varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We argue that these variations - vital to understanding the politics of the welfare state - reflect in part the degree to which economic disadvantage (low income) and economic insecurity (high risk) are correlated. When the disadvantaged and insecure are mostly one and the same, the base of popular support for the ...

Smoking and Returns to Education − Empirical Evidence for Germany

Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we appear a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate additionally we suppose a higher return to education for smokers who go further on education. With our empirical ...