The aim of the conference is to build bridges between the trade union movement and the post- and de-growth community, and to situate a transformative just transition vision within the ‘beyond growth’ narrative. It should prompt reflection on how the (contested) concept of just transition and...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

Session 1: Health and Education ; Session 2: Political Economy ; Session 3: Labour ; Session 4: Game Theory and Finance.

We document that the dominant component of overall and residual wage inequality is within plant-occupations and, combining within-occupation task information from labor force surveys with linked plant-worker data for Germany, establish three interrelated facts: (1) larger plants and exporters...

Forum 01 - Was sind eigentlich "Zukunftskompetenzen"? Forum 02 - Simulation realistischer Bürosituationen im Modellunternehmen. Forum 03 - Regionale Vernetzung und digitale Lernortkooperation: Einblicke in das Projekt ABBO. Forum 04 - Anwendungen für die pädagogische Begleitung: Ressourcen...

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 had a very deep and significant impact on economic relationships, especially on international trade, social and employment policies, technological developments, and the macroeconomic context. Against this background, economic researchers and policy-makers are now...

Mit dem Teilhabechancengesetz wurden zum Jahresbeginn 2019 mit den § 16i und e SGB II neue Möglichkeiten zur Förderung der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung von Langzeitarbeitslosen eingeführt. Insbesondere der § 16i fand aufgrund der Zuschusshöhe und der Fokussierung auf...

We propose a simple explanation for the long-run decline in the startup rate. It was caused by a slowdown in labor supply growth since the late 1970s, largely pre-determined by demographics. This channel explains roughly two-thirds of the decline and why incumbent firm survival and average...

The economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine are likely to reshape the science-policy interface with significant implications for net-zero goals, green growth, and sustainable development. The recent experience from the...

The world is facing a concurrence of crises: the war in Ukraine and the ongoing recovery from COVID-19 on top of the effects of climate change. While differing very much in nature, these crises all have a decisive effect on economic and monetary policy. With our conference, we seek to develop a...