TY - RPRT A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - Knopf, Brigitte A1 - Amberg, Maximilian A1 - Bergmann, Tobias A1 - Kellner, Maximilian A1 - Stüber, Sophia A1 - Haywood, Luke A1 - Roolfs, Christina A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar T1 - Effects of the energy price crisis on households in Germany BT - socio-political challenges and policy options Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/data/C18_MCC_Publications/2022_MCC_Effects_of_the_energy_price_crisis_on_households.pdf PB - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) gGmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Steckel, Jan Christoph A1 - Missbach, Leonard A1 - Ohlendorf, Nils A1 - Feindt, Simon A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias T1 - Effects of the energy price crisis on European households BT - socio-political challenges and policy options Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/data/C18_MCC_Publications/2022_MCC_Effects_of_the_energy_price_crisis_on_European_households.pdf PB - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) gGmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Amberg, Maximilian A1 - Bergmann, Tobias A1 - Knopf, Brigitte A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar T1 - Gaspreisdeckel, Mehrwertsteuersenkung, Energiepauschale BT - wie kann die Bevölkerung zielgenau und schnell entlastet werden? Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/data/C18_MCC_Publications/2022_MCC_Gaspreise_und_Entlastungsma%C3%9Fnahmen.pdf PB - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) gGmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kellner, Maximilian A1 - Amberg, Maximilian A1 - Bergmann, Tobias A1 - Roolfs, Christina A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias T1 - Entlastungspakete für Energiepreisanstiege BT - Auswirkungen und Nachbesserungsbedarf Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/user_upload/Kalkuhl/2022_MCC_Entlastungspakete_fuer_Energiepreisanstiege_.pdf U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6617130 PB - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) gGmbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Matzat, Johannes A1 - Schmeißer, Aiko T1 - Do unions shape political ideologies at work? T2 - CESifo Working Paper N2 - Labor unions’ greatest potential for political influence likely arises from their direct connection to millions of individuals at the workplace. There, they may change the ideological positions of both unionizing workers and their non-unionizing management. In this paper, we analyze the workplace-level impact of unionization on workers’ and managers’ political campaign contributions over the 1980-2016 period in the United States. To do so, we link establishment-level union election data with transaction-level campaign contributions to federal and local candidates. In a difference-in-differences design that we validate with regression discontinuity tests and a novel instrumental variables approach, we find that unionization leads to a leftward shift of campaign contributions. Unionization increases the support for Democrats relative to Republicans not only among workers but also among managers, which speaks against an increase in political cleavages between the two groups. We provide evidence that our results are not driven by compositional changes of the workforce and are weaker in states with Right-to-Work laws where unions can invest fewer resources in political activities. KW - labor unions KW - political ideology KW - campaign contributions KW - worker-manager relations Y1 - 2023 SN - 2364-1428 SN - 1617-9595 IS - 10301 PB - CESifo GmbH (Münchener Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wirtschaftswissenschaft) CY - München ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. A1 - Silva-Goncalves, Juliana A1 - Uhlendorff, Arne T1 - Locus of control and the preference for agency T2 - IZA discussion paper N2 - We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how locus of control operates through people's preferences and beliefs to influence their decisions. Using the principal-agent setting of the delegation game, we test four key channels that conceptually link locus of control to decision-making: (i) preference for agency; (ii) optimism and (iii) confidence regarding the return to effort; and (iv) illusion of control. Knowing the return and cost of stated effort, principals either retain or delegate the right to make an investment decision that generates payoffs for themselves and their agents. Extending the game to the context in which the return to stated effort is unknown allows us to explicitly study the relationship between locus of control and beliefs about the return to effort. We find that internal locus of control is linked to the preference for agency, an effect that is driven by women. We find no evidence that locus of control influences optimism and confidence about the return to stated effort, or that it operates through an illusion of control. KW - locus of control KW - preference for agency KW - decision-making KW - beliefs KW - optimism KW - confidence KW - illusion of control Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4416820 SN - 2365-9793 VL - No. 16061 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Wie soll Europas Zukunft aussehen? BT - Ein Debattenbeitrag T2 - Staat, Recht und Politik - Forschungs- und Diskussionspapiere N2 - At sixty, the European Union once again faces trouble and is in crisis. There is an ongoing discussion on reforming the Union and its future in a changing world. As of 1st March 2017, President Juncker presented the Commission’s “White Paper Paper on the Future of Europe” outlining perspectives and inviting to discuss EU’s future. This paper aims at contributing to this discussion. N2 - Kurz vor ihrem sechzigsten Geburtstag ist die europäische Union mit inneren und äußeren Herausforderungen konfrontiert und befindet sich in einer tiefen Krise. Am 1. März 2017 legte Kommissionspräsident Juncker das „Weißbuch über die Zukunft der Europäischen Union“ vor, in dem er verschiedene Szenarien darlegt und zur Diskussion über die anste-henden Entscheidungen einlädt. Diese Papier versteht sich als ein solcher Diskussionsbei-trag. T3 - Staat, Recht und Politik – Forschungs- und Diskussionspapiere = State, Law, and Politics - Research and Discussion Papers - 2 Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-104324 SN - 2509-6974 IS - 2 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -