Several countries and regions have introduced mandatory minimum distances of wind turbines to nearby residential areas, in order to increase public acceptance of wind power. Germany’s largest federal state Bavaria introduced such separation distances of ten times the height of new wind turbines in 2014. Here, we provide a novel monthly district-level dataset of construction permits for wind turbines ...
Der Aufkauf von Staatsanleihen durch die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) verstößt nach einem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts teilweise gegen das Grundgesetz. DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die Entscheidung des Gerichts:
Viele Unternehmen suchen händeringend Personal. Ein Problem? Nicht unbedingt – der Mangel an Arbeitskräften kann die deutsche Wirtschaft modernisieren. Dieser Beitrag erschien erstmals am 17. September 2021 bei Zeit Online als Teil der Reihe Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen. Immer wieder warnen Wirtschaft und Politik vor einem Fachkräftemangel: Die Zukunftsfähigkeit der deutschen ...
Bitte beachten Sie unseren Call for Papers für den Workshop zum Thema „Firms, Workers, and Households in Times of Crisis and Digital Transformation“ vom 26.-27. November 2026 am DIW Berlin. Die Betriebsbefragung des SOEP – erstmalig im Jahr 2012 durchgeführt – geht in die zweite Runde. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die längerfristigen Veränderungen der Arbeitsbeziehungen im Kontext der fortlaufenden...
Please consider our Call for Papers for the workshop on "Firms, Workers, and Households in Times of Crisis and Digital Transformation" (November 26-27, 2026 at DIW Berlin). The Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel was first conducted in 2012 and is now entering its second round. The focus of SOEP-LEE2 is on longer-term changes in labor relations in the context of ongoing...
This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). The increase in the probability to have a SUPP due to one standard deviation increase in the measure ...
Usually, it is expected that income increases life satisfaction. In recent years tough, research emerged that shows how subjective well-being, including satisfaction, influences objective measures, as for example income. This would then require explicit identification strategies for estimating effects of income on life satisfaction. I address this issue using German SOEP data and Lewbel’s (2012) method, ...
DIW Berlin forecasting experts are lowering their forecast for 2021 from 3.2 to 2.1 percent - Supply bottlenecks and material shortages are weighing on German industry - Private consumption remains restrained - With growth of just under five percent, the German economy will pick up speed in 2022 once bottlenecks have been overcome and infection rates have fallen on a sustained basis - Inflation no ...
