Despite its rather broad goal of promoting 'economic, social and territorial cohesion', the existing literature has mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the...

The impact of the EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated by analysing its growth effects. However, this perspective neglects that the EU support might affect other policy fields as well. There are at least two reasons why the impact on public investment should be of special interest. First...

We estimate the effect of initial episodes under fixed term contracts (FTCs) on job duration in the further course of the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially...

Urban area tessellation is a crucial aspect in many spatial analyses. While regular tessellation methods, like square-grid or hexagon-grid, are suitable for addressing pure geometry problems, they cannot take the unique characteristics of different subareas into account. Irregular tessellation...

German Abstract: Der Bericht beinhaltet quantitative Analysen zweier Befragungen von erwerbsfähigen Arbeitsuchenden mit Fluchthintergrund in den Jahren 2018 und 2019 in Mannheim. Diese ermöglichen Einblicke in die soziodemographischen und sonstigen integrationsrelevanten Merkmale (Sprache,...

German Abstract: Dieser Bericht untersucht ökonomische Effekte einer City-Maut anhand existierender theoretischer und empirischer Studien. Zudem werden internationale Beispiele für City Maut-Systeme vorgestellt. Die Erreichung der politischen Ziele einer City-Maut, wie bspw. Minderung des...