Nach dem Boom der Bauwirtschaft in den vergangenen Jahren haben im Jahr 2022 Inflation und Lieferengpässe der Branche schwer zu schaffen gemacht. Zwar ist das Bauvolumen nominal nochmals um fast 14 Prozent gestiegen, inflationsbereinigt ging es allerdings um zwei Prozent zurück. Besonders betroffen war und ist der dringend benötigte Wohnungsneubau. Für dieses und das nächste Jahr wird erwartet, dass ...
Following the construction boom of recent years in Germany, inflation and supply bottlenecks hit the industry hard in 2022. While nominal construction volume increased by nearly 14 percent, it decreased by two percent when adjusted for inflation. Residential construction, which is urgently needed, was particularly affected. In 2023 and 2024, it is expected that investors will show restraint and that ...
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity reflecting genderrole asymmetry: lower life satisfaction is only found ...
From a biological perspective, humans differ in the speed they age, and this may manifest in both mental and physical health disparities. The discrepancy between an individual’s biological and chronological age of the brain (“brain age gap”) can be assessed by applying machine learning techniques to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Here, we examined the links between brain age gap and a broad ...