While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is scarce to non-existent. This is problematic because both theoretical and empirical evidence show that the position in the wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge. We measure ex-ante IOp in net wealth for Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante ...
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity, reflecting gender-role asymmetries: lower life satisfaction is found only for unmarried ...
Tomaso Duso, Wettbewerbsspezialist des DIW, erklärt, warum der Bund sich nicht als Unternehmer gerieren sollte Ein Interview von Nina Luttmer. Sollte der Staat an Unternehmen beteiligt sein, oder sich vollkommen aus dem Wirtschaftsleben heraushalten? Sollte er bedeutsame Firmen in Krisensituationenretten, oder nicht? Diese Diskussion flammt immer wieder auf, zuletzt besonders stark während der Corona-Pandemie ...
Objectives Housing is an important social determinant of health, but the perspectives of asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) in large, centralised reception centres remain under-researched. We therefore sought to examine which housing aspects in reception centres are deemed relevant for health by ASR in Germany.MethodsBased on 47 interviews with 42 ASR in Germany originating from three different studies, ...
How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several events. However, life events are often grouped non-randomly over the lifespan, occur in close succession, and are causally linked, raising the question of how to best analyze them jointly. Here, we used representative German data (SOEP; N = 40,121individuals; n = 41,402 event occurrences) ...
Das Konjunkturbarometer des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) sinkt im Februar deutlich: Mit nun 83,2 Punkten – nach 91,2 Punkten im Januar – liegt der Barometerwert wieder sehr deutlich unter der neutralen 100-Punkte-Marke, die ein durchschnittliches Wachstum der deutschen Wirtschaft anzeigt. Nachdem das Bruttoinlandsprodukt im vierten Quartal 2023 um 0,3 Prozent geschrumpft ...
