Search

Searched for Voluntary work.
Found 28 results.

Displaying results 1 to 10 of 28.

• 

  Press Releases // 24.04.2024

  Long-Term Care Insurance Offsets Labour Market Disadvantages

  relatives and friends become the caretakers for these people. This leads to immense costs due to reduced working hours, incomes and pensions. Benefits provided by long-term care insurance, such as care allowances [...] pension points, help to largely offset these disadvantages. However, they also reduce incentives to work. This is what researchers from ZEW Mannheim and RWI Essen found in an empirical study based on data [...] the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). - “Without the benefits of long-term care insurance, much less care work would be done. In an ageing society with a shortage of skilled workers, it is essential that this
• Publications // 13.04.2023

  Refereed Journal - Competing for digital human capital: The retention effect of digital expertise in MNC subsidiaries

  mechanisms from the literature on subsidiary-specific advantages into theoretical models explaining voluntary mobility constraints of employees, we reason that the opportunities for acquiring new skills in [...] valuable employees. We test our theoretical predictions for 11,598 employees with digital human capital working for 866 foreign MNC subsidiaries in Denmark observed between 2002 and 2012. We find that digital
• Publications // 23.11.2022

  Discussion and Working Paper - Collective minimum contributions to counteract the ratchet effect in the voluntary provision of public goods

  We experimentally test a theoretically promising amendment to the ratchet-up mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The ratchet-up mechanism prescribes that parties’ commitments to the global response to c
• Publications // 23.08.2022

  Discussion and Working Paper - Motivate the crowd or crowd-them out? The impact of local government spending on the voluntary provision of a green public good
• Events // 23.06.2021

  Voice at Work

  employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, the difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job separations, and at most small positive effects on other measures of job quality (job security
• Publications // 07.05.2021

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Precocious Inventors: Early Patenting Success and Lifetime Inventive Performance

  information on an extensive list of individual inventor characteristics and time variant information on work environment characteristics for the same period. We define an early success as being in the fastest [...] better resources, such as a higher share of research and development time, larger employers, more voluntary job moves, or more co-inventors, during their remaining career than inventors without early success
• Events // 11.12.2019

  The Future of Social Protection Non-Standard Work and Pensions

  and societies work. These transformations provide new opportunities for growth, but they also raise the risk of increasing numbers of people working in unstable, temporary and part-time work, often with [...] with only one employer. Work patterns deviating from this model risk falling through the cracks. All branches of social protection are challenged by changes in the world of work, but one stands out in [...] its long-term impact: the provision of old-age security. Pension entitlements build up over the working life and continuous contributions are key to reaching adequate levels. Countries have long recognised
• 

  Press Releases // 21.09.2018

  The Government Needs to Consider the Social Costs of Laying New Power Lines

  The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is planning to work together with the state governments to speed up the expansion of Germany’s electricity grid by significantly reducing the [...] there would be no losers, at least at the municipal level. Participation in the auction would be voluntary and compensation would be paid out based on the communities’ own bids. This would in turn allow
• Events // 13.09.2018

  Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for Low Carbon Mobility

  The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners who are interested in and working on questions related to low carbon mobility and transportation. The transport sector is one of the very [...] future of road transport: electric and self-driving vehicles and the sharing economy Voluntary approaches to reduce emissions: carbon offsetting, car- and ride-sharing and other mechanisms
• Projects // 09.01.2017

  Redesign of childcare allocation procedures in Germany

  kindergarten places is largely uncoordinated. This leads to great uncertainty for working parents and considerable administrative work on the part of kindergarten staff. Due to an acute shortage of childcare places [...] Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg Association of Municipalities). The envisaged solution is voluntary and can be easily incorporated into existing online systems. It also upholds the legally protected