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Letzte Generation plant Offensive: was kann die Massenblockade bewegen?

SOEP-Zusatzstichprobe in den Fördergebieten nach dem Strukturstärkungsgesetz Kohleregionen

Das Gesetz ,,Strukturstärkungsgesetz Kohleregionen“ ist am 14. August 2020 in Kraft getreten – in diesem Zusammenhang ist das Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBSR) mit der Einrichtung eines Kompetenzzentrums für Regionalentwicklung beauftragt worden, um den Strukturwandel wissenschaftlich zu begleiten, die Veränderungen der...

Gender Parity on Top Boards Is Still a Far-off Goal, and It Is Time for Companies to Take Action: Editorial

Number of Women on Boards of Large Companies Keeps Growing: Momentum from Inclusion Requirement, However, Is Waning

The upward trend in women’s representation on executive and supervisory boards of major companies in Germany continued in 2022, although the overall momentum has slowed yet again. Growth on executive boards in particular has slowed, as the most recent DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer shows: Following a significant increase at the 200 largest companies from 2020 to 2021, there was only a one-percentage-point ...

Corporate Reporting Provides Insight into Companies’ Commitment to Gender Equality

Many companies in Germany must provide information beyond financial figures in their annual reports. For some years now, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual reports, this second report in the 2023 DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer shows that the major publicly ...

Claudia Kemfert bei Markus Lanz

Energieökonomin Claudia Kemfert vom Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung war zu Gast bei Markus Lanz am 26. Januar 2023. Weitere Gäste: Politiker Jens Spahn, Journalistin Eva Quadbeck und Journalistin Kathrin Witsch. Die Sendung kann in der ZDF-Mediathek angesehen werden.

Longitudinal Bidirectional Associations between Personality and Becoming a Leader

Objective: Leaders differ in their personalities from non- leaders. However, when do these differences emerge? Are leaders “born to be leaders” or does their personality change in preparation for a leadership role and due to increasing leader-ship experience? Method: Using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel Study, we examined personality differences between leaders (N = 2683 leaders, women: ...

Active Learning Improves Financial Education: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small-scale retailers in rural western Uganda. The treatments contrast “active learning” with traditional “lecturing” within standardized lesson-plans. After six months, active learning has a positive effect on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast to small or zero effects for lecturing. ...

Financial Education Matters: Testing the Effectiveness of Financial Education Across 76 Randomized Experiments

Do financial education programs affect financial knowledge and behaviors? We examine this question using a meta-analysis that incorporates studies from the past decade, which saw a rapid increase in financial education research. When examining data from 76 financial education randomized experiments across 33 countries covering over 160,000 individuals, we find that financial education improves both ...

Beschäftigung von Geflüchteten macht Unternehmen produktiver und attraktiver

Befragung von 100 mittleren und großen Unternehmen in Deutschland untersucht Integration Geflüchteter auf dem Arbeitsmarkt – Anstellung von Geflüchteten verbessert Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit, Attraktivität der Unternehmen und unternehmerische Entwicklung – Potenzial für Selbstständigkeit bleibt unter Geflüchteten nahezu ungenutzt Die Anstellung Geflüchteter ...