Since the 1990s, Germany has embarked on a daring campaign to restructure its energy system around renewable power, sparking a global revolution in solar and wind technology. But this pioneering energy transition has been plagued with problems. In this volume, Stephen G. Gross explains the...

Health Equity kann eine Aufwärtsspirale im Gesundheitssystem und in der Volkswirtschaft in Gang setzen. Verbessert sich durch eine gerechte Verteilung der Chancen auf den bestmöglichen individuellen Gesundheitszustand das Wohlbefinden der Menschen, werden überforderte Strukturen entlastet und...

The paper examines the extent to which the prestige value of a retiree's former occupation increases the likelihood that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume that when a person retires, the prestige value attached...

We estimate the elasticity of charitable giving with respect to price and income changes using a rich panel of income tax returns covering the period 2001 to 2006. Employing censored quantile regression and exploiting the panel structure, the advantage of our analysis is twofold: First, we...

Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and international trade on the skill composition of occupations, the paper employs a task-based approach to analyze structural changes in regional employment within a rich...