Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

• 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…

The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics…

The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was hit by a very strong shock which was relatively concentrated in the exporting,…