Die Arbeiten am sozioökonomischen Modell DEMOS der GWS mbH gehen auf die Arbeiten der Kooperationsgruppe "Sozioökonomische Modellierung" am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld (ZiF) im Jahre 2004 zurück. Beteiligt waren Peter Bartelheimer (SOFI), Joachim Frohn...

The question whether ageing leads to more or less inequality is not easily answered. Different, in part opposed, effects can be identified that are sensible to reactions of private households, the implementation of political measures etc. To get a better idea of the effect of demographic change...

Private households constitute one of the main economic sectors. The underlying house-hold structure determines income and consumption aggregates. For example, changes in the population composition induced by demographic change or shifts in the income structure through redistributional policy...

The concept of participation can be used to evaluate and assess socioeconomic changes. Most analysis that apply participation as reference point for socioeconomic development concentrate on the individual level. We try to give evidence for reasons and explanations for accomplished or changing...

Wie sich Angebot und Nachfrage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt bis zum Jahr 2030 entwickeln könnten, haben das IAB und das BIBB (Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung) in einer gemeinsamen Projektion modelliert. Sie zeigt, wie viele Personen mit unterschiedlicher Qualifikation und in zwölf Berufshauptfeldern...

The article examines conditions, under which the degree of democratization influences environmental policy outcomes, with a given resource endowments' heterogeneity as a crucial feature of a politico-economic process. We develop an OLG model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The...

Political Economy may provide an important link between inequality and pollution. This paper studies the dynamic relationship between inequality and redistributive policy leading to differing transitional paths of pollution to the steady state, using a pollution-augmented framework developed by...

Using a considerable number of theoretical and empirical sources, we analyze the relationship between democracy and environment. First, we compare the situation in democracies and non-democracies. Later we discusses environmental distribution conflicts and the role of ratization influences...

Die Berechnung der EEG-Umlage für das Jahr 2013 durch die Netzbetreiber hat zu einer breiten Diskussion über die sozialen Auswirkungen steigender Strompreise geführt. In der vorliegenden Studie werden modellgestützt Verteilungswirkungen bei einem Vergleich verschiedener Entwicklungspfade der...

We test the hypothesis that more progressive redistribution contributes to emission reductions with the aid of fixed-effects estimation technique. Using a panel of 16 West European countries over the period 1990-00, we regress emission levels of four different air pollutants on two alternative...