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Former DIW Berlin President Gert G. Wagner has Passed Away

Gert G. Wagner passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on January 28, 2024, at the age of 71. He led the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) for many years and later served as the Chairman of the Executive Board (President) of DIW Berlin. “DIW Berlin owes a great deal to Gert G. Wagner. For over 30 years, he made irreplaceable contributions to the development ...

Effect of Area-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation on Mental and Physical Health: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment among Refugees in Germany

Existing studies on contextual health effects struggle to account for compositional bias, limiting causal interpretation. We use refugee dispersal in Germany as a natural experiment to study the effect of area-level socioeconomic deprivation on mental and physical health, while considering the potential mediating role of neighbourhood characteristics. Refugees subject to dispersal (n = 1466) are selected ...

Schärfere Bürgergeld-Sanktionen? Darin steckt eine große Chance

Die angebliche Erosion der Leistungsbereitschaft

Nach starkem Zuwachs schrumpft der Niedriglohnsektor in Deutschland deutlich

Klamme Kassen, knappe Mittel – Wie ist der grüne Transformationsprozess dennoch zu beschleunigen?

Die Regierungen in der gesamten EU haben weniger Spielraum für die Aufnahme neuer Kredite zur Finanzierung grüner Investitionen, da sie die Wirtschaft während der Pandemie und der Energiekrise in einem noch nie dagewesenen Ausmaß unterstützen mussten. Auch die deutsche Regierung versucht, die grüne Transformation bei knapperen Mitteln am Laufen zu halten. Wie können die verbleibenden Mittel...

Parents' Life Satisfaction Prior to and Following Preterm Birth

The current study tested whether the reported lower wellbeing of parents after preterm birth, relative to term birth, is a continuation of a pre-existing difference before pregnancy. Parents from Germany (the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, N = 10,649) and the United Kingdom (British Household Panel Study and Understanding Society, N = 11,012) reported their new-born’s birthweight and gestational ...

Book of Condolence for Gert G. Wagner

Gert G. Wagner passed away on January 28, 2024, at the age of 71. He led the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) for many years and later served as the Chairman of the Executive Board (President) of DIW Berlin. Mr. Wagner joined DIW Berlin in 1989, taking over leadership of the then-new longitudinal study, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) until ...

Die Besserverdiener verdienen noch mehr

Es ist paradox: Der Niedriglohnbereich ist sehr viel kleiner geworden, die unteren Lohngruppen hatten hohe Zuwächse. Doch die Ungleichheit hat das nicht reduziert. Die Anzahl der Beschäftigten im Niedriglohnsektor ist in den vergangenen zehn Jahren deutlich zurückgegangen. Gleichzeitig steigt die Ungleichheit von Einkommen, und das Armutsrisiko verharrt auf einem sehr hohen Niveau. Das ist auf den ...

Testing Marx: Capital Accumulation, Income Inequality, and Socialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany

We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led to a rise in the capital share and income inequality, as predicted by orthodox Marxists. But against their ...