Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...

Zwei unabhängige Wirtschaftshistoriker haben anlässlich seines 75-jährigen Bestehens die Geschichte des RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung aufgearbeitet. Sie entdeckten viele Konstanten: Schon in der Nachkriegszeit forschte das RWI in einem theoriegeprägten Umfeld vor allem...

Ein in allen Wirtschaftsbereichen gültiger CO2-Preis wäre die effizienteste Maßnahme für einen besseren und sozial ausgewogenen Klimaschutz. Die Politik muss mehr für den Klimaschutz tun – diese Erkenntnis hat sich inzwischen auf breiter Ebene durchgesetzt. Über die verschiedenen...

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to construct a credible counterfactual situation a...

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...