Publikationen der Forschungsgruppe Ungleichheit und Verteilungspolitik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-059 // 2016

    Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

    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…

  2. Discussion und Working Paper // 2016

    The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

    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…

  3. ZEWnews // 2016

    07/08 - 2016

    • Die Digitalisierung gefährdet weit weniger Arbeitsplätze als bislang vermutet
    • Crowdworking in Deutschland – derzeit nur eine marginale Beschäftigungsform
    • Systemwechsel eröffnet neue Chancen für…