Seit Beginn 2016 untersucht das "Stimmungsbarometer zu Geflüchteten in Deutschland" monatlich die mit dem Thema Migration verbundenen Einstellungen, Erwartungen und Befürchtungen der BürgerInnen in Deutschland. Die im März 2016 durchgeführte dritte Welle der Umfrage zeigt, dass weiterhin...

We provide a game-theoretic account of endogenous intrinsic motivation within a principal–agent framework. We explore the incentives of an altruistic principal who, by exerting costly effort, can intrinsically motivate a present-biased agent to exhibit a direct preference for more far-sighted...

In terms of role assignment and informational characteristics, different contexts have been used when measuring distributional preferences. This could be problematic as contextual variance may inadvertently muddle the measurement process. We use a within-subjects design and systemically vary...

How do families behave dynamically? We provide a framework for studying economic problems in which family behavior is essential. Our key innovation is the inclusion of imperfectly altruistic agents in an otherwise standard consumption-savings problem with exogenous income risk. This gives rise...

Despite recent advances in reputation technologies, it is not clear how reputation systems can affect human cooperation in social networks. Although it is known that two of the major mechanisms in the evolution of cooperation are spatial selection and reputation-based reciprocity, theoretical...

The presence of refugees in Germany and the challenges their integration poses have preoccupied the public for the past two years. According to the latest data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), many more people in Germany were concerned about migration and xenophobia last year than in 2013....

Die Präsenz Geflüchteter in Deutschland sowie die Herausforderungen ihrer Integration beschäftigen die Öffentlichkeit seit nunmehr zwei Jahren. Neuesten Zahlen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zufolge machten sich im vergangenen Jahr weitaus mehr Menschen in Deutschland Sorgen aufgrund...

Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment opportunities for low-skilled and deprived people. Despite this positive feedback, informality raises problems for public finances and biases official statistics, reducing the...

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

Die ökonomische Forschung zum Thema "Weihnachten" hat sich mit dem potenziellen Wohlfahrtsverlust durch Weihnachtsgeschenke beschäftigt. Joel Waldfogel hat in einem vieldiskutierten Aufsatz untersucht, ob der subjektive Wert der Geschenke geringer ist als seine Kosten. Dieser Ansatz ignoriert...