This second report in the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer 2022 explores the designs and effects of gender quotas across Europe, coming to the conclusion that they are an effective instrument for increasing the share of women in top positions at large companies. Furthermore, the quotas differ greatly between the countries, for example in regard to the number of companies subject to the quota, ...
Durch den russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine sind die Energiepreise sprunghaft gestiegen. Bereits zuvor wurden Strom, Gas und Kraftstoffe sukzessive teurer. Die privaten Haushalte in Deutschland werden dadurch erheblich belastet. Zwei Entlastungspakete hat die Regierungskoalition dazu geschnürt. Dennoch drohen den privaten Haushalten mittelfristig reale Einkommensverluste von durchschnittlich 2,1 Prozent, ...
In this paper we estimate the effect of unemployment on informal care provision. For the identification we use plant closures as a source of exogenous variation and combine difference-in-differences with matching based on entropy balancing. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that there is a time conflict between employment and informal care provision. ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
DIW-Berechnungen zeigen, wie ein Grunderbe die Vermögensungleichheit verringern würde – Finanzierung durch vermögensbezogene Steuern sinnvoll – Beide Komponenten zusammen würden Vermögensungleichheit gemessen am Gini-Koeffizienten um bis zu sieben Prozent senken Ein Grunderbe in Höhe von bis zu 20.000 Euro für alle 18-Jährigen und deren Finanzierung ...