Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions in the corporate sector such as on company boards. One of the reasons for this underrepresentation are gender stereotypes on the skill distribution, social and occupational roles, personality traits, and how they affect labor market decision making. Media plays an important role in transporting gender stereotypes. In this paper we...
In the recent economic crises, Germany has made use of job retention schemes and in particular short-time work benefits ('Kurzarbeit') to tackle shocks in labor demand. Under these schemes, workers have not been laid off and received unemployment benefits, but reduced their working hours (or stopped working) for a limited amount of time while receiving short-time leave benefits. While the effect...
We study the incentive and labor market effects of disability benefit programs using unique policy variation in Germany. In 2014, disability benefits of new recipients were increased considerably while eligibility criteria were not changed. We exploit this quasi-experimental policy variation to test the implications at two different margins. First, we analyze to what extent an increase in the...
Der Beitrag erschien in gekürzter Fassung unter dem Titel "Ein Weg aus der Altersarmut" in der FAZ am 30. Januar 2023, S. 16 und auf FAZ.NET. Benötigt das Rentensystem mehr Umverteilung? Die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung in Deutschland wird von der Beitragsäquivalenz geprägt: die Rente orientiert sich in ihrer Höhe im Wesentlichen an den zuvor gezahlten Beiträgen. Das bedeutet, dass die späteren ...