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Effects of Changes in Living Environment on Physical Health: A Prospective Cohort Study of Movers and Non-Movers in Germany

Longitudinal studies on associations between changes in living environment and health are few and focus on movers. Next to causal effects, differences in health between living environments can, however, result due to residential mobility. The present study explored changes in living environment related to (changes in) physical health among movers and non-movers. Causality was reinforced by a novel ...

Walls of Glass: Measuring Deprivation in Social Participation

This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that deprivation in social participation can be convincingly established by drawing on extensive non-participation in customary ...

Deutschlands erbärmlicher Rückstand bei der Gleichstellung

Nuclear Decommissioning after the German Nuclear Phase-Out: An Integrated View on New Regulations and Nuclear Logistics

With Germany’s nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities remaining in charge of dismantling, while liability for interim and final storage now transferred to the public. This ...

How Effective Is Black-box Digital Consumer Profiling and Audience Delivery?: Evidence from Field Studies

BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

Bauwirtschaft bleibt eine wichtige Stütze der Konjunktur

Flächendeckende staatliche Förderung treibt die Preise – Mittel für den sozialen Wohnungsbau sollten auf Innenstädte fokussiert werden. Die Bauwirtschaft bleibt eine wichtige Stütze der Konjunktur. Zusammen können die Unternehmen der Bauwirtschaft – also Wohnungs-, Tief- und Gewerbebau – mit einer Steigerung des nominalen Bauvolumens von rund siebeneinhalb ...

Bauwirtschaft weiter im Vorwärtsgang – staatliche Impulse treiben die Preise

Die Bauwirtschaft wird auch in den kommenden Jahren florierende Geschäfte haben. Das geht aus der aktuellen Bauvolumenprognose hervor. Danach können die Unternehmen mit einer Steigerung des nominalen Bauvolumens mit rund siebeneinhalb im laufenden Jahr und gut sechseinhalb Prozent im nächsten Jahr rechnen. Gestützt wird die Baukonjunktur vom nach wie vor florierenden Wohnungsbau, der zusätzliche Impulse ...

Die deutsche Bauwirtschaft wird auch in den kommenden Jahren florieren: Interview

Growth Rate of German Economy Normalizing after Prolonged Economic Boom: DIW Economic Outlook

The German economy continues to perform well although the boom has ended. However, at 1.5 percent, German GDP will increase this year at a lower rate than expected at the beginning of the year. Nevertheless, concerns about an imminent recession should give way to the assessment that the pace of the German economy is normalizing after years of above-average growth due to robust foreign demand and increasing ...

Growth Rate of German Economy Normalizing after Prolonged Economic Boom: DIW Economic Outlook

By Claus Michelsen, Christian Breuer, Martin Bruns, Max Hanisch, Simon Junker, and Thore Schlaak The German economy continues to perform well although the boom has ended. However, at 1.5 percent, German GDP will increase this year at a lower rate than expected at the beginning of the year. Nevertheless, concerns about an imminent recession should give way to the assessment that the pace of the German ...