1. Refereed Journal // 2018

    How robust is the uniform emissions pricing rule to social equity concerns?

    This paper examines pollution tax differentiation across industries in light of social equity concerns using theoretical and numerical general equilibrium analyses in an optimal tax framework. We…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Vom 'Stasi-Knast' in den 'Goldenen Westen'? Ost-West-Binnenmigration ehemaliger politischer Häftlinge der DDR

    Roughly 200,000 former political prisoners of the German Democratic Republic could so far not be explicitly considered in studies of internal migration between East and West Germany. Using large-scale…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Maternity Leave and Mothers' Long-Term Sickness Absence. Evidence from West Germany

    Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers’ postbirth long-term sickness absence over a…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Modelling the Time Allocation Effects of Basic Income

    Most of the economic models on basic income account just for pecuniary forms of work, i. e. “time spent making money”, in employment. This restriction is a drawback of these analyses and of the standard economic…

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    Saving regret

  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    MINE -Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy. A digital gateway to the foundations of Ecological Economics

    INE –Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy is a digital archive and visual map showing the intersection between nature and economy. By focusing on the…