From November 5 to 7, DIW Berlin hosted the SOEP’s first international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis. In contrast to our regular German SOEP workshops, this one was devoted specifically to comparative longitudinal and cross-country designs using the SOEP and its international sister household panels. Paula Fomby of the University of Michigan and Marco Giesselmann of the ...
The 2018 summer school for early-stage researchers combined advanced research on the integration of refugees and migrants with training in the use of a clone of EU-SILC longitudinal data for Germany. The clone was created with the help of SOEP data and is especially valuable in the study of methodological issues in migration research. The different migration subsamples in the SOEP allow more detailed ...
Is the German manufacturing industry, which has been leaving cities for less densely populated areas since World War II, being lured back into urban centers? This report analyses industrial start-ups from 2012 to 2016 and derives their preferred locations. The analysis shows that the start-up intensity in large agglomerations is on average almost 40 percent higher than in the other regions of Germany. ...
Companies invest in research and development (R&D) to safeguard their competitive ability and increase productivity. Using extensive company data for Germany, the study shows that manufacturing companies that engage in R&D activities and that are located in a central urban agglomeration are especially productive. They additionally benefit from knowledge created by R&D activities of other companies ...
The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of profiles using the example of career ...
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, langjähriger ehemaliger Vorstand des DIW Berlin, erhielt für sein anhaltendes ehrenamtliches Engagement in der Vermittlung wissenschaftlicher Expertise in Politik und Gesellschaft vom Bundespräsidenten das Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Als Sozialökonom und Berater politischer AkteurInnen in verschiedenen ...
This paper proposes a new nonparametric method of constructing joint confidence bands for impulse response functions of vector autoregressive models. The estimation uncertainty is captured by means of bootstrapping, and the highest density region (HDR) approach is used to construct the bands. A Monte Carlo comparison of the HDR bands with existing alternatives shows that the former are competitive ...
Wird das verarbeitende Gewerbe, das seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Städte zugunsten weniger verdichteter Räume verlassen hat, in die Innenstädte zurückgelockt? Dieser Bericht analysiert das industrielle Gründungsgeschehen der Jahre 2012 bis 2016, aus dem sich die Standortpräferenzen neuer Unternehmen erschließen. Die Auswertung zeigt, dass die Gründungintensität in den großen Agglomerationen im Durchschnitt ...
