Das subjektive Wohlbefinden ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Lebensqualität und Gesundheit einer Gesellschaft. Studien zeigen, dass zufriedenere Menschen bessere soziale Beziehungen führen, produktiver sind und eine längere Lebenserwartung haben. Infolge der Debatte über die Eignung des...

Das subjektive Wohlbefinden ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Lebensqualität und Gesundheit einer Gesellschaft. Studien zeigen, dass zufriedenere Menschen bessere soziale Beziehungen führen, produktiver sind und eine längere Lebenserwartung haben. Infolge der Debatte über die Eignung des...

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the...

We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who...

We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. In order to distinguish between hours shocks and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we use a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Estimating our model with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics...

Tax progressivity is central in public and political debates when questions of vertical equity are raised. Applied, structural research demands a simple way to capture it. A power function approximation delivers one parameter that captures the residual income elasticity - a summary measure of...