Publikationen der Forschungsgruppe Ungleichheit und Verteilungspolitik

  1. Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Is Xi reducing income inequality by catching “tigers”?

    How Corruption Fuels Inequality in China

    Graft on a Staggering Scale Warps the Country’s Economy

    After Chinese President Xi Jinping rose to power in 2012, his government launched a sweeping anticorruption…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-052 // 2024

    Early Life Conditions, Time Preferences, and Savings

    This study examines how early-life exposure to food scarcity influences individuals’ long-term time preferences and savings behavior. To this end, we analyze hand-collected historical data on livestock…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-027 // 2024

    Are We Yet Sick of New Technologies? The Unequal Health Effects of Digitalization

    This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-029 // 2024

    Staggered Contracts and Unemployment During Recessions

    This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set…

  5. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Eating Habits, Food Consumption, and Health: The Role of Early Life Experiences

    This study explores the long-run effects of a temporary scarcity of a consumption good on preferences towards that good once the shock is over. Specifically,

    we focus on individuals who were children during…