Digitalization offers a variety of opportunities for female empowerment and for a more equal female participation in labor markets, financial...

This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that...

We use a dynamic general equilibrium trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms, hetero- geneous workers and endogenous firm...

KBW 26: The COVID-19 virus has spread to 215 countries, virtually covering all areas of the world, and has plunged the world in a health...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 129: Despite the gloomy economic outlook for Germany, the Federal Employment Agency will continue to generate surpluses...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 121: The author supports the hypothesis that the current positive financial position of the German health insurance is...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 114: The rate of contributions to unemployment insurance should be reduced immediately from 3 to 2.5 percent. The...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 104: In Germany, the system of unemployment insurance has been in surplus since 2011. The reserves amounted to Euro 11...

In our rapidly changing times – revolving around the digital revolution, automation, globalization, the communications revolution and more –...

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular...

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular...

We examine determinants of immigration requirements in a public goods game experiment with endogenous groups. Initially, the game consists of...

Over the last decades, research in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individual welfare (utility), as relevant for economic decision...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 35: The financial situation of the social security system in Germany has improved due to the strong upswing and the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 77: Based on his analysis of the financial situation of the social security system in Germany, the Kiel economist Alfred...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 81: The tax burden of typical wage income earners in Germany is analysed by the Kiel economist Alfred Boss.

Kiel Policy Brief No. 63: In his Kiel Policy Brief the Kiel economist Alfred Boss warns of the return of the deficit in Germany’s social...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 124: The Federal Labor Agency will achieve a budget surplus in 2019 as well as in 2020 – despite of the decrease of the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 115: In this paper it is explained why the rate of contributions to unemployment insurance should be reduced from 3.0 to...