The number of women serving on the executive boards of large companies in Germany once again increased in 2023: Around 18 percent (153 of 875) of executive board members at the 200 largest companies were women as of late fall 2023, two percentage points higher than in 2022. Thus, growth has slightly picked up again. In some of the groups of companies analyzed, the figure was even higher. Around 23 ...
Achieving a balanced monetary-fiscal policy mix in the euro area is crucial to ensure that monetary policy is able to fulfil its primary price stability objective. This paper outlines, from an economic and legal perspective, the interaction between monetary and fiscal policy in light of the current monetary and fiscal stance and, in particular, the “quasi-fiscal” effects of some unconventional monetary ...
We study the effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were centrally assigned to live in specific counties. To measure sentiments of native residents towards immigrants, we use geo-coded Twitter data, which provides our “negative sentiment ...
The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) serves a global research community by providing representative annual longitudinal data of respondents living in private households in Germany. The dataset offers a valuable life course panorama, encompassing living conditions, socioeconomic status, familial connections, personality traits, values, preferences, health, and well-being. To amplify research opportunities ...
Summary : Background Migration health research pays little attention to the places into which people migrate. Studies on health effects of contextual factors are often limited because of the ability of individuals to self-select their environment, but natural experiments may allow for the causal effect of contexts to be examined. The objective was to synthesise the evidence on contextual health effects ...
Das Konjunkturbarometer des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) liegt im Januar bei 91,2 Punkten. Damit ist der Barometerwert zwar zum zweiten Mal in Folge gestiegen und kommt der 100-Punkte-Marke, die ein durchschnittliches Wachstum der deutschen Wirtschaft anzeigt, etwas näher. Die Aussichten sind jedoch weiterhin eingetrübt. Die durch die hohe Inflation in den Jahren 2022 und ...
Bruttostundenlöhne und Haushaltsnettoeinkommen sind seit 1995 real deutlich gestiegen – Niedriglohnsektor ist seit 2017 erheblich geschrumpft – Einkommensungleichheit ist aber langfristig gestiegen – Maßnahmen zur besseren Arbeitsmarktintegration von Zugewanderten und gezielteren Qualifizierung von jungen Erwachsenen ohne Berufsbildung notwendig Die Bruttostundenlöhne in Deutschland sind zwischen ...
