Publikationen der Forschungsgruppe Ungleichheit und Verteilungspolitik

• Übergewichtung der Hochschuldenländer schon vor der Corona-Krise
• Ein Drittel der deutschen Kurzarbeiter fürchtet um den Arbeitsplatz
• Längerer Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld beeinträchtigt Gründungserfolg
• Untern…

We use data across European corporate boards to investigate the effects of quota-induced female representation, under minimal possible identification assumptions. We find that having more women in board…

Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI)…

• Homeoffice in der Pandemie beeinflusst die Aufgabenverteilung in Familien
• Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf Grund für höhere Geburtenrate in Frankreich
• Digitalisierung hilft Soloselbstständigen bei der…

What are the effects of austerity on distributional policy? We exploit the autonomy of Italian municipalities in setting non-linear income taxes and the exogenous introduction of a fiscal rule to show that…

• Socially Responsible Behaviour Can Slow the Spread of the Coronavirus
• Innovative Companies Are More Resilient to Crises and Less Prone to Cut Employment
• Contact-Tracing App: Creating Incentives for Fast and…

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pan­demic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit…

We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income…

We discuss important properties and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive three main results. First, binning of effect window endpoints is a practical necessity and key for identification of…