Das Konjunkturbarometer des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) ist im Oktober im Vergleich zum Vormonat leicht gestiegen und liegt nun bei gut 90 Punkten. Zwar dürfte das Bruttoinlandsprodukt in Deutschland im dritten Quartal gegenüber den vorangegangenen drei Monaten erneut gesunken sein (um 0,2 Prozent). Im laufenden vierten Quartal wird es aber wohl zumindest ...
There is a huge interest in deriving and comparing socio-economic indicators across societal groups and domains. The indicators are usually derived from population surveys like the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) by direct estimation. Small sample sizes in the domains can limit the precision of these estimates. For example, while SOEP may be a suitable database for determining mean income in Germany, ...
Glucose regulation is a key aspect of healthy aging and has been linked to brainfunctioning and cognition. Here, we examined the role of glucose regulation for withinpersonlongitudinal trajectories of well-being. We applied growth models to data fromthe Berlin Aging Study II (N = 1,437), using insulin resistance as an index of glucoregulatorycapacity. We found that poor glucose regulation (higher insulin ...
In the last few years, apps have become an important tool to collect data. Especially in the case of data on people’s happiness, two projects have received substantial attention from both the media and the scientific world: “Track your happiness” from Killingsworth and Gilbert (Science, 330, 932-932, 2010), and “Mappiness,” from MacKerron (2012). Both happiness apps used the experience sampling method ...
In research on stratification and inequality, administrative data are popular for their wide coverage and assumed high quality. Yet, the quality of the data depends crucially on the aim of data collection. In this paper, we investigate the quality of information on education in administrative data from social security records provided by the German Federal Institute for Employment Research where education ...
Das Bundeskabinett hat die Wiedereinführung der Meisterpflicht für insgesamt zwölf Handwerke beschlossen. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Karl Brenke, Arbeitsmarktexperte des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
