The Pension Commission has the task of examining, by 2026, “a new indicator for an overall level of old-age provision across all three pension pillars.” This debate will also shape pension policy in 2026. With a study, we aim to contribute to this discussion. We examine which replacement rates insured persons aim for and how large the gap is between the target replacement rate and the replacement...
This paper studies how and why anti-Irish sentiment in 19th century England spills over onto jury decisions at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court. We classify the (perceived) ethnicity of courtroom participants according to whether they have distinctly Irish or English surnames based on place of birth in the 1881 census. Irish-named defendants have significantly worse outcomes: juries are 3% ...
This project evaluates a major reform of Germany’s public Disability Insurance (DI) system. Since 2001, cohorts born after 1960 are no longer eligible for occupational DI, which previously granted benefits when health shocks prevented work in one’s former occupation. Instead, eligibility now requires general work disability. First, the project will use administrative microdata from the statutory...
The goal of the project is to develop an index to measure the adequacy of overall retirement provision for the working-age population. The Retirement Adequacy Index is intended to regularly inform about the state of retirement provision. In the project, we also aim to place a particular emphasis on the gender perspective. Policy has initiated a shift toward a multi-pillar system with a stronger...
In this project, we are investigating the effects in Germany and France of a series of measures that have directly or indirectly changed the pension entitlements of people whose careers have been interrupted due to health problems or labor market crises.
On December 11, Cristóbal Moya successfully defended his dissertation with the title “The Politics of Unjust Inequalities: From Injustice Perceptions to Protest and Redistribution” at Bielefeld University. The committee included Prof. Dr. Carsten Sauer (supervisor and first reviewer, Bielefeld University), Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (second reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Sonja Blum (committee chairmanship, ...
In recent decades, the share of very young children in daycare has significantly increased in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the critical role of child health in development and later life success, the impact of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. This study examines the effects of a substantial daycare expansion in Germany on ...
Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...
