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Inflation: Politik muss Last auf alle Schultern verteilen

Im August ist die Inflationsrate auf 7,9 Prozent gestiegen, wie das Statistische Bundesamt heute bekanntgegeben hat. Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), erklärt dazu:

Personality Growth after Relationship Losses: Changes of Perceived Control in the Years around Separation, Divorce, and the Death of a Partner

Background: Previous research suggests that romantic relationships play a crucial role for perceived control. However, we know surprisingly little about changes in perceived control before and after the end of romantic relationships. Methods: Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a nationally representative household panel study from Germany, we examined changes of perceived control ...

Dramatic Effects but Fast Adaptation: Changes in Life Satisfaction and Different Facets of Affective Well-being around the Death of a Partner and Death of a Child

Although everyone would agree that bereavement is extremely stressful, surprisingly little is known about changes in different facets of affective well-being in the years surrounding the death of a loved one. On the basis of the Socio-Economic Panel Study, we examined changes in cognitive well-being (life satisfaction) and different facets of affective well-being (happiness, sadness, anxiety, and anger) ...

Marcel Fratzscher bei Markus Lanz

Der Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung äußert sich zu den sozialen Folgen der Energiekrise und hinterfragt die Ausgestaltung und Wirksamkeit der Entlastungspakete. Weitere Gäste: Politiker Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Journalistin Anja Maier, Ökonom Marcel Fratzscher und Journalistin Kathrin Witsch . Die Sendung kann in der ZDF-Mediathek angesehen werden.

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Multiple Imputation of Ordinal Missing Not at Random Data

We introduce a selection model-based imputation approach to be used within the Fully Conditional Specification (FCS) framework for the Multiple Imputation (MI) of incomplete ordinal variables that are supposed to be Missing Not at Random (MNAR). Thereby, we generalise previous work on this topic which involved binary single-level and multilevel data to ordinal variables. We apply an ordered probit ...

Joint research project launched: IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey of 6,000 refugees from Ukraine

More than 950,000 refugees from Ukraine have sought protection in Germany since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. The project “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is the first com-prehensive, representative social science survey of this group. It is being conducted by the SOEP in partnership with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), the ...

Modelling US and Euro Area Monetary Policy - An Overidentified Bayesian Proxy VAR approach

Changes in Working Hours Are Driving Earnings Inequality

According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly between 1993 and 2003 and has been stagnating at a high level since 2008. As this Weekly Report shows, the increase is not being driven by higher hourly wage inequality, but rather by working hours: In recent years, employees with a high hourly wage work more than previously compared ...

The Impact of Public Procurement on Financial Barriers to Green Innovation: Evidence from European Community Innovation Survey

The purpose of this study is to identify whether an innovative company’s likelihood of facing financial constraints is different when the company possesses a public procurement contract (PP). Theory suggests that the treatment effects of public procurement, particularly when mediated by the demand-pull effect, may lower a company’s funding constraints for innovation. We test this theory and apply extended ...