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Power2Jobs – Employment Impact of Hydrogen Technologies

The hydrogen economy will play a decisive role in Germany’s green transformation in the coming decades. With its help, the goal of climate neutrality can be achieved while preserving German industry.
As part of the Hydrogen Atlas of Germany, the Power2Jobs subproject has investigated the potential significance of the hydrogen economy for regional labor markets.

At the bottom of this page, you will find a list of publications, which are accessible through links.

The working paper “Upstream employment effects of P2X production” provides benchmarks for the regional employment effects of hydrogen production in Germany.

The paper “Regional Hydrogen Relevance in Germany” compares the hydrogen-specific potential and challenge profiles of German counties.

Building on this, in the paper “Employment Effects of the Hydrogen Economy” we have ventured a look into the future of the steel and heavy industry labor market. We discuss how the two labor markets in Germany could change in the face of the emergence of new occupational groups and the disappearance and transformation of established occupational fields.

The changing world of work is also the focus of our fourth working paper. In it, we have documented our approach to measuring regional skills gaps, which was used in the context of Power2Jobs to assess the existing distribution of skills and knowledge in Germany’s regions against the backdrop of a hydrogen economy.

You can get a first insight into the results in interactive form at www.power2jobs.de.

The Hydrogen Atlas Germany is available at www.wasserstoffatlas.de.

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Who benefits from the tax allowance for education, upbringing and training?

The current short expert report commissioned by the AWO Bundesverband e.V. sheds light on the distributional effects of the tax allowances for children. In particular, the allowance for care, education and training costs (BEA) currently favours high-income households more than low-income families. The study analyses how halving the CEA or reducing it to 300 euros would affect different groups of households.

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The economic impact of e-lending in public libraries on the consumer book market

On behalf of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), DIW Econ analysed the economic effects of e-lending on the German public book market. In its coalition agreement, the German government established the goal of creating a fair framework conditions for e-lending in public libraries. The study now presented by DIW Econ aims to provide a comprehensive empirical basis for this.

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The economic power behind housing

Residential construction has been a major contributor to Germany’s economic growth in recent decades. However, current forecasts point to a worrying decline in the real volume of residential construction, which could have far-reaching consequences. This development underlines the urgent need to strengthen residential construction as a driver of economic recovery.

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Cheap new world? Comparison of the energy costs of a fossil-based and a green household

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