Publikationen der Forschungsgruppe Ungleichheit und Verteilungspolitik

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known…

• Kinderbetreuung lässt Mütter mehr arbeiten und ändert Einkommensverteilung in Familien
• Landespolitiker befürworten mehr Vergleichbarkeit im Bildungssystem
• Internationale Konzerne nutzen digitale…

• Treuhandanstalt verkaufte produktive Firmen vor allem an westdeutsche Investoren
• Studienabbrecher sind weniger zufrieden
• Krise gefährdet kommunale Investitionen
• ZEW-ZEPHYR M&A-Index zeigt erstmals Anzeichen…

We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find…

• Voting Rights of Foreigners Affect Their Likelihood of Acquiring Citizenship
• Companies Plan to Keep Remote Work Arrangements After Crisis
• School Closures Jeopardise Equality
• ‘Treuhandanstalt’ Sold…

We exploit a large reform of capital-gains taxation in Germany combined with portfolio-level daily panel data to study the causal effect of taxes on individual stock-trading behavior and the disposition effect.…