The Covid-19 pandemic has touched everyone in some way, but many of its impacts have been disproportionately felt by women: Job losses and care burdens, for example, have fallen on women relatively more than men. Two years after the pandemic began, and as countries increasingly move toward...

Die sozialwissenschaftliche Promotionswerkstatt Rhein-Ruhr richtet sich an Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen sowie angrenzenden Fächern, die an einer Dissertation mit Bezug zu mindestens einem der folgenden Themenfelder arbeiten: Arbeit, Arbeitsmarkt,...

Ziele des Symposiums: Förderung der Interaktion und Kommunikation zwischen Forschenden, einschließlich Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen, auf den Gebieten Einkauf, Materialmanagement, Logistik, Öffentliche Beschaffung und Supply Chain Management. Präsentation und Diskussion aktueller Trends und...

Die digitale Transformation stellt die Gleichstellungspolitik sowohl auf betrieblicher als auch auf staatlicher Ebene vor große Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig kann die Digitalisierung aber auch eine Chance sein, um Gleichstellungsdefizite auf dem Arbeitsmarkt abzubauen. Die...

The Texas Economics of Crime Workshop (TxECW) will bring together scholars from Texas and beyond, to discuss cutting-edge research from the vibrant economics of crime field. It will include presentations of working papers related to criminal behavior and the criminal justice system. Topics of...

Submissions of empirical and theoretical papers in all areas of applied macroeconomic policy in small states are welcomed. According to the World Bank Group’s definition small states, are considered to have populations in the range of 1.5 million or less. While this is not a rigid cut-off for...

SIPP is a nationally representative longitudinal survey that provides comprehensive information on the dynamics of income, employment, household composition, and government program participation. It offers a rich variety of information, allowing for examinations of: - Adult and child...

We propose a general equilibrium model with oligopolistic output markets where two channels can cause a change in market power: (i) technology, via changes to productivity shocks and the cost of entry, (ii) market structure, via changes to the number of potential competitors. First, we...

STEG research themes: - Data and measurement related to structural transformation - Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy - Labour, home production, and structural transformation - Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps - Trade and spatial frictions - Political economy and...

Recent developments in general equilibrium modelling focus on strategic interactions. Several models offer strategic foundations for the theory of perfect competition. Others analyze the functioning of markets and the working of market power in economies where competition takes place on multiple...