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Events // 12.12.2024
significant fall in teleworking for those affected by the RTO mandate, who also spend more time outdoors, work fewer hours, and interact less with relatives and friends. The net effect of these lifestyle [...] changes on a battery of health and well-being measures following the return to office work is insignificant. The place of work post-pandemic has neither positive nor negative health implications. [...] The paper presented in this ZEW Research Seminar exploits an exogenous shift in working conditions for public-sector workers in Italy to establish the causal effect of a return-to-office (RTO) mandate
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Events // 05.12.2024
parenthood shapes gender norms. With parenthood, both men and women become less supportive of full-time working mothers, and more likely to believe that women are better able to care for small children. Prior [...] motivate earmarked paternity as a tool to change gender norms around parenthood by increasing men’s time spent on childcare and in turn improve gender equality. In this ongoing project, the paper presented [...] short and long run? The authors combine rich register data with a population-wide survey focusing on time allocation, attitudes, and gender norms in the field across a two-year window around the introduction
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News // 21.10.2024Let’s talk more about your trip. What was your daily routine like in the US? Half of my time was spent on academic work – giving lectures and meeting colleagues. The other half was spent visiting institutions [...] You posted a lot about your trip – how were the responses? Yes, it was my first time doing this, and it was a lot of work. Thanks also to my team at ZEW for doing the research and checking the accuracy [...] things: They are often closely linked to politics and are partly privately funded. US think tanks work closely with science, but pursue clear political goals, in contrast to the more state-funded research
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Press Releases // 24.10.2024The German Federal Ministry of Finance’s Working Party on Tax Revenue Estimates presented the results of its new analysis today. Friedrich Heinemann, head of the Research Unit “Corporate Taxation and Public
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Press Releases // 22.10.2024On the night of 27 October, clocks will be set back by one hour, marking the start of winter time, which will last until the end of March 2025. Many people look forward to the extra hour of sleep. Nicolas [...] is essential for health: - “It makes sense to change the clocks twice a year. With permanent summer time, mornings in winter would stay dark for an extra hour. This increases the risk of accidents, especially [...] particular suffer from sleep deprivation. Their biological clocks are at odds with early school start times. They are often overtired and have difficulty concentrating, which affects their academic performance
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Press Releases // 28.10.2024main driver of this increase, especially the “electronic certificate of incapacity for work” (eAU). At the same time, severe waves of colds played a role, as did a more conscious approach to respiratory [...] Ziebarth, this is not the main reason why days of incapacity for work have increased since 2022: “The tracking of days of incapacity for work has much improved since January 2022. Actually, the increase is [...] diseases after the pandemic. - “Since the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer employees have gone to work when ill with a cold,” explains Professor Nicolas Ziebarth, head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Labour Markets and
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Press Releases // 21.10.2024
am grateful for the appointment and very pleased to be able to bring an economic perspective to the work of the German Ethics Council. Economics is the science concerned with the allocation of scarce resources [...] that are relevant to a wide range of societal issues,” says Professor Achim Wambach. “Especially in times of rapid technological, economic, and scientific developments, the Ethics Council plays a key role
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Events // 20.11.2024
both in terms of absence and selection into informal work arrangements. The authors test for the existence of a demand for flexible work among unskilled casual laborers in Odisha, India, and [...] detailed survey data on the causes of absences, social network and practices, as well as risk and time preferences. The authors plan to: 1) estimate the share of workers who have demand for flexibility
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Press Releases // 01.10.2024Germany. Companies did indeed spend more money on technology that enables working from home and virtual collaboration. At the same time, however, investments in state-of-the-art production equipment declined [...] negative consequences of the pandemic. They were able to increase the frequency of working from home and reduce short-term work. However, these adjustment investments were made at the expense of other technology
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Publications // 01.10.2024
frontier technologies using the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study. The analysis tracks the nature, timing, and pandemic-related motivations of investments among German firms, using longitudinal survey data [...] linked with administrative worker–firm records. We find clear evidence for a shift toward remote work technologies that helped firms mitigate negative employment effects. Overall, however, the pandemic