Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual…

Despite the prevalence of government surveillance systems around the world, causal evidence on their social and economic consequences is lacking. Using county-level variation in the number of Stasi informers…

• Goodbye Privacy? – Every Second Free App Has Access to Sensitive Data
• Crowdworking – Currently Only a Marginal Form of Employment in Germany
• Among Businesses, Trademarks See More Use Than Patents for Tax Planning
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• New ZEW President Achim Wambach Establishes Research Group "Market Design"
• Childhood Is a Decisive Factor in Income Disparities in the UK and the US
• Still Room for Improvement as EU Fibre-Optic Networks Expand
• Unil…

In recent years considerable interest has developed in going 'beyond GDP' to develop measures of economic progress which are more explicitly based on human wellbeing. This work has been inspired, in part, by…

• Chinese Patents in International Comparison: Increasing Quantity at the Cost of Quality
• Highly Productive Enterprises Make More Use of Global Sourcing
• Mind the Gap – The Difference Between US and European Loan…

• Why and How There Should Be More Europe in Asylum Policies
• Personal Contact with Tax Authority Increases Tax Compliance of Businesses
• German Businesses Maintain High Level of Innovation Expenditures
• Financially…