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  Press Releases // 10.09.2024

  ZEW Economist Friedrich Heinemann on Draghi’s Report on European Competitiveness

  These include high taxes and social security contributions, high labour costs, weak work incentives in welfare systems and heavy labour market regulation. The need to adapt social security systems to the ageing [...] Next Generation EU. Originally intended to finance European public goods, it was repurposed into a transfer instrument for financially distressed Member States, with its success now questioned by evaluations [...] Instead, it contributes to further neglecting key challenges – prioritising public budgets, reforming social security systems and reducing tax and contribution burdens – in Europe’s reform agenda.”
• Events // 25.09.2024

  Republican Support and Economic Hardship The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic

  presented in this ZEW Research Seminar establishes a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: the opioid epidemic and the rise in partisanship [...] variation to document significant increases in opioid-related mortality and greater reliance on public transfer programs. This induced economic hardship led to substantial changes in the political landscape of
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  News // 30.08.2024

  Rethinking Financial Education

  funding. The transfer of knowledge into practice and to the general public is particularly important to us. MetaFin consolidates the findings from many research projects, thus facilitating the transfer of financial [...] education is crucial for the personal financial security of individuals in Germany, as well as for social participation and overall economic stability. To improve financial education in Germany, the Federal [...] Germany. The project focuses on three key areas: networking, accompanying research and knowledge transfer. The project is conducted by the Mannheim Institute for Financial Education (MIFE) in cooperation
• Publications // 18.06.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - News Media Bargaining Codes

  their ads between a social media platform and a news website. Our objective is to evaluate policy interventions aimed at fostering news creation by transferring revenues from social media to news websites [...] and Indonesia). We show that social media may voluntarily contribute to news development, but only suboptimally. Beyond a certain level of state-mandated transfer, the social media platform can credibly
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  Press Releases // 30.01.2024

  Mixed Picture across the Economy – Many Companies Engaged in Social Innovations

  aspect – social innovation. The central finding is that, between 2020 and 2022, one in two companies introduced social innovations, i.e. novel, viable and sustainable solutions to socially relevant challenges [...] committed to strengthening innovation and knowledge transfer in the long term. It is encouraging to see that many companies are already engaging in social innovations.”
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  News // 01.02.2024

  Knowledge Transfer at the Bosporus

  of Economics and Administrative Sciences and the Institute of Social Sciences on topics such as economic sustainability, inequality, social mobility, as well as education and migration economics. At the [...] “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” Unit. - “I am very much looking forward to teaching in the interesting environment of TDU and to explore topics such as economic sustainability and social mobility in a [...] professorship. He has extensively conducted research on European and South American topics, e.g. social mobility, and has published in top-tier international journals. His scientific network in these regions
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  Press Releases // 15.11.2023

  “The Traffic Light Coalition Is Facing a Budgetary Mess”

  declaring it null and void. With this supplementary budget, the current federal government had transferred loans totalling 60 billion euros to the Climate and Transformation Fund at the beginning of its [...] actually finance its ambitious climate policy. There is no reason for the CDU to gloat. Just like the Social Democratic government in Saarbrücken, the CDU, at the state level in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin
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  Press Releases // 14.11.2023

  Youth Protection Proves Effective for E-Cigarettes

  fell by 15 to 20 per cent, while regular use saw a drop of 20 to 40 per cent. These findings are transferable to Germany due to similar societal structures and comparable youth protection measures. “The results [...] the access to e-cigarettes,” explains Professor Nicolas Ziebarth, head of ZEW’s “Labour Markets and Social Insurance” Unit, and co-author of the study.
• Events // 14.11.2023

  Can Today’s and Tomorrow’s World Uniformly Gain from Carbon Taxation?

  Pacific suffering catastrophic damages. Carbon taxation, coupled with region- and generation-specific transfers, can both correct the carbon externality and raise the welfare of all current and future agents [...] all peoplekind – present and future. However, carbon taxes set through time, at carbon’s marginal social cost, do far too little to mitigate climate change unless all major emitters, particularly China
• Projects // 01.02.2023

  Reform of Transfer Withdrawal Rates and Improving Incentives to Work

  The federal government wants to change the employment allowances for recipients of basic social security benefits in such a way as to strengthen labor supply incentives and avoid the sometimes very high [...] reform of the employment allowances will be developed. In this context, not only changes in the transfer deduction rates in the citizen's income will be considered, but also the entire system of basic