The Berlin-Brandenburg airport (BER) has become well-known far beyond German borders due to substantial mis-planning and heavy delays in opening. Planned to open in March 2012, BER finally opened in 2020, after seven partly substantial and immediately announced delays. Focusing on the first two...

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...

Am 1. Januar 2004 trat in Deutschland das Gesetz zur Modernisierung der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in Kraft. Neben anderen politischen Maßnahmen beinhaltete es die Einführung der Praxisgebühr von 10 Euro für den ersten Arztbesuch innerhalb eines Quartals. Ziel dieser Maßnahme war es,...