In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the pandemic, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 20 percentage points. We show that digital capital, and to a lesser extent working-from-home, were essential for the...

Seit Anfang der 90er Jahre nimmt in der Bundesrepublik die Arbeitslosigkeit trotz fallender Lohnquote kontinuierlich zu. Haben wir die keynesianische Situation einer mangelnden Nachfrage auf den Gütermärkten? Kann die Arbeitslosigkeit durch eine expansivere Lohnpolitik abgebaut werden?