We investigate the effect of the refugee inflow between 2014 and 2017 on voting for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the national parliamentary election in 2017 in Germany. Drawing on unique small-scale data enables us to distinguish between the contact theory, captured by...

Die Bundesregierung prüft den Erlass einer Bundesverordnung aus Gründen des Gemeinwohls, um telefonische und elektronische Dienstleistungen in bisher geregeltem Umfang weiterhin zu ermöglichen. Eine solche Gemeinwohlverordnung kann gerechtfertigt sein, wenn Arbeitsplatzverluste in größerem...

[Einleitung] Am 11. März 2020 erklärte die Weltgesundheitsorganisation die neuartige Covid-19-Erkrankung zur globalen Pandemie. In Ermangelung medizinischer Behandlungs- und Schutzmöglichkeiten wurden auf der ganzen Welt seitdem nicht-pharmazeutische Maßnahmen gegen eine ungebremste...

The FDZ Ruhr provides two campus files on real estate advertisements in Germany: the City Campus File (RWI-GEO-RED city) and a Cross-Sectional Campus file (RWI-GEO-RED cross). The datasets are extractions of the Scientific Use Files of RWI-GEO-RED. The City File covers the 15 biggest cities in...

The FDZ Ruhr provides a dataset on real estate advertisements in Germany for the years 2007 to 2020 (up to June). The data are based on information from the internet platform ImmobilienScout24 and covers both apartments and houses for sale and for rent. The data are available for scientific...

Institutionelle Workflows zum Forschungsdatenmanagement sind an Instituten der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft unterschiedlich ausgeprägt. Im Rahmen eines Workshops haben Mitarbeitende aus dem Bereich Forschungsdatenmanagement verschiedener Leibniz-Institute eine Bestandsaufnahme der derzeitigen Praxis...

[Introduction:] The performance of the labour market has been one of the primary interests of policymakers in many countries around the world, and the importance of this issue has been further enhanced by the current financial and economic crisis. In this context, a well-functioning labour...

Low Emission Zones (LEZs) reduce local air pollution by restricting emission-intensive vehicles from accessing designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction policies on other areas of life. This paper studies the...

How does a new highway in Germany impact residential real estate prices - both owner-occupied and rental properties? Construction of the A38 highway was completed in 2009 and expanded by additional interchanges at several points in time, through 2013. The highway connects the east and west of...

This report gives a short description of the data set Smaragd-Survey. The data have been collected by a commercial market research institute, infas360. Infas360 conducts online surveys several times a year with about 10,000 participants. These surveys are distributed as "Casa Monitor" and focus...