Demographic change has an impact on pay-as-you-go pension systems. To maintain their financial sustainability, reforms are necessary, but often lack public support. Based on representative survey data from Germany, we conduct a survey experiment which allows investigating whether salience of or...

Demographic change has an impact on pay-as-you-go pension systems. To maintain their financial sustainability, reforms are necessary, but often lack public support. Based on representative survey data from Germany, we conduct a survey experiment which allows investigating whether salience of or...

Diese Studie betrachtet die finanziellen Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise auf private Haushalte Ende des Jahres 2020. • Insgesamt geben knapp ein Viertel der Haushalte in Deutschland an, während der Corona-Krise im Jahr 2020 Einkommensverluste erlitten zu haben. Bezieht man auch...

Durch die Nutzung finanzieller Rücklagen zur Deckung der Haushaltsausgaben können aus kurzfristigen finanziellen Nöten langfristige finanzielle Probleme entstehen. Anhand von repräsentativen Umfragen, die wir zwischen Dezember 2020 und Februar 2023 durchgeführt haben, gehen wir drei Fragen...

To address the distributional consequences of high inflation rates, measures are needed that target those most in need without distorting prices. The function of the price as scarcity signal is important to encourage energy saving. Direct price subsidies such as the fuel price rebate, on the...

The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamentalreforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms are, however, onlyfeasible when they are supported by the majority of the electorate. Todetermine whether the majority is in favor of reforms of the pension system,we calculate...

We empirically analyze sub-national migration of graduates in Germany and its determinants. Based on a longitudinal, representative survey-based dataset of students who graduated in the academic year 2004/2005, we observe the transition to the labor market and previous and subsequent migration...

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...

Gerade in den letzten Jahren ist Zuwanderung immer wieder kontrovers diskutiert worden. Oft spielen dabei Befürchtungen eine Rolle, dass mehr Zuwanderer zu mehr Kriminalität führen. Um zu einer Versachlichung der teils sehr emotionalen Behandlung des Themas in den Offline-­ und...