Traditional predictors of election outcomes in Germany are increasingly losing their explanatory power. Rather than new cultural divides, this paper introduces the idea of housing cleavages, i.e., homeownership versus tenancy and high-price versus low-price areas, drawing on macro data for...

Given the recent reconcentration of the economy in many private industries, the impact of working in firms of different sizes on occupational and political outcomes is of renewed interest. Using micro-level data for the US and Germany, two most dissimilar cases in terms of labor market and...

This study explores the factors influencing household overcrowding using longitudinal survey data from Germany spanning the years 1985 to 2022. As average square meters per capita have declined for urban tenants, we find that overcrowding rates have substantially increased since 2012: By 2022,...

This paper explains the different trajectories of German and American competition policy and its permissiveness towards economic concentration in the last few decades. While the German political economy had moved to a stronger antitrust regime after 1945 and stuck to it even after the economic...

Traditional predictors of election outcomes in Germany are increasingly losing their explanatory power. Rather than new cultural divides, this paper introduces the idea of housing cleavages, i.e., homeownership versus tenancy and high-price versus low-price areas, drawing on macro data for...

Die große Mehrheit der Haushalte in den 14 deutschen Großstädten wohnt zur Miete. Der an haltende Immobilienboom hat in den letzten zehn Jahren nicht nur Kaufpreise, sondern auch (Neu-)Mieten stark ansteigen lassen, während der Bau neuen Wohnraums unterdurchschnittlich blieb. Diese Studie...

Bisher stand die empirische Forschung zu Mietwohnungsmärkten nicht im Fokus vergleichender Wohnungsforschung. Mit Blick auf die Debatte um steigende Mieten kann vergleichende Forschung zum Mietwohnungsmarkt zum Erkenntnisgewinn beitragen. Neue Daten aus 25 Industrieländern ermöglichen es nun,...