We evaluate German purchase subsidies for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) using data on new vehicle registrations in Germany during 2015-2022. We account for confounding time trends and interacting EU-level CO2 standards using neighboring countries as a control group. The program was cost-ineffective, as only 40% of BEV and 25% of PHEV registrations were ...
This paper studies if workers infer from correlation about causal effects in the context of the part-time wage penalty. Differences in hourly pay between full-time and part-time workers are strongly driven by worker selection and systematic sorting. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages (’selection neglect bias’). Based ...
Minimum wages are increasingly discussed as an instrument against (in-work) poverty and income inequality in Europe. Just recently the German government opted for a substantial ad-hoc increase of the minimum-wage level to euro12 per hour mentioning poverty prevention as an explicit goal. We use the introduction of the federal minimum wage in Germany in 2015 to study its redistributive impact on disposable ...
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women’s employment rates but to decrease their wages in case of extended leave duration. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers’ long-term earnings. The 2007 German parental leave reform replaced a means-tested ...
Scenarios for financing an unconditional basic income are being developed in the project. Furthermore, the revenue and distribution effects of basic income and financing options are analyzed.
Im Projekt werden mögliche Szenarien zur Finanzierung eines bedinungslosen Grundeinkommens entwickelt. Ferner werden Aufkommen und Verteilungswirkungen von Grundeinkommen und Finanzierungsoptionen analysiert.
Das informelle Engagement pflegender Angehöriger ist die zentrale Säule der häuslichen Pflege in Deutschland. Angesichts des steigenden Pflegebedarfs und dem Fachkräftemangel in der formellen Pflege, könnte die informelle Säule der Pflege in Zukunft sogar an Bedeutung gewinnen. Dabei ist es von zentraler Bedeutung, dass informell Pflegende Rahmenbedingungen vorfinden, die ihnen das...
Studie untersucht, wie private Haushalte in Deutschland durch steigende Energiepreise belastet und durch Hilfen der Bundesregierung entlastet werden – Einkommensschwache Haushalte und Härtefälle sollten gezielter unterstützt werden Haushalte mit geringen Einkommen sind von den aktuell hohen Energiepreisen deutlich stärker betroffen als Haushalte mit hohen Einkommen – ...