How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of…
Die Industriepolitik rückt zunehmend in den Fokus der deutschen und der europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik. In diesem Beitrag entwickeln Hanna Hottenrott, Roman Inderst, Eckhard Janeba, Klaus Schmidt, Achim Wambach…
This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university…
While the importance of local characteristics for innovation activities has been studied extensively, it remains largely unknown to which extent better transport-based accessibilities facilitate innovation. This…
Linking scientific articles in PubMed and corporate biomedical U.S. patents, we study the role of inventors who are frontier scientists, identified as authors of recent articles in top-general biomedical…
As an example of supranational climate policy coordination for sectors not covered by carbon trading, the European Effort Sharing Decision set national targets for emission reductions for the time period…
