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DIW Weekly Report 37 / 2021
Recently, the coronavirus pandemic has caused economic developments in major economies to drift apart: While infection rates were declining and production was experiencing strong growth in places such as Europe and the United States in the second quarter of 2021, emerging economies were experiencing strict economic restrictions due to high case numbers. In some of these countries, the economy declined. ...
2021| Guido Baldi, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Hella Engerer, Frederik Kurcz
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DIW Weekly Report 37 / 2021
The German economy is taking longer than expected to overcome the pandemic: It is likely to increase by only 2.1 percent in 2021 and capacities remain markedly underutilized. In addition, global supply bottlenecks are affecting German industry, resulting in stalled domestic production despite high demand. Following a profitable summer due to low case numbers and progress in the vaccination campaign, ...
2021| Marius Clemens, Simon Junker, Laura Pagenhardt
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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
Viele Unternehmen suchen händeringend Personal. Ein Problem? Nicht unbedingt – der Mangel an Arbeitskräften kann die deutsche Wirtschaft modernisieren. Dieser Beitrag erschien erstmals am 17. September 2021 bei Zeit Online als Teil der Reihe Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen. Immer wieder warnen Wirtschaft und Politik vor einem Fachkräftemangel: Die Zukunftsfähigkeit der deutschen ...
17.09.2021| Marcel Fratzscher
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Forschungsprojekt
Bitte beachten Sie unseren Call for Papers für den Workshop zum Thema „Firms, Workers, and Households in Times of Crisis and Digital Transformation“ vom 26.-27. November 2026 am DIW Berlin.
Die Betriebsbefragung des SOEP – erstmalig im Jahr 2012 durchgeführt – geht in die zweite Runde. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die längerfristigen Veränderungen der Arbeitsbeziehungen im Kontext der fortlaufenden...
Aktuelles Projekt| Sozio-oekonomisches Panel
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Forschungsprojekt
Please consider our Call for Papers for the workshop on "Firms, Workers, and Households in Times of Crisis and Digital Transformation" (November 26-27, 2026 at DIW Berlin).
The Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel was first conducted in 2012 and is now entering its second round. The focus of SOEP-LEE2 is on longer-term changes in labor relations in the context of ongoing...
Aktuelles Projekt| Sozio-oekonomisches Panel
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DIW Discussion Papers 1972 / 2021
Welfare is traditionally understood through social security decommodifying labor markets or social investment policies. In the domain of housing, however, welfare for homeowners is largely hidden in the tax codes’ fiscal exemptions. Based on a content analysis of legislation, this paper introduces a novel yearly database of 37 countries between 1910 and 2020 to uncover the “hidden welfare state” of ...
2021| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl, Artem Korzhenevych, Linus Pfeiffer
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DIW Discussion Papers 1971 / 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of mandatory face mask usage triggered a heated debate. A major point of debate is whether community use of masks creates a false sense of security that would diminish physical distancing, counteracting any potential direct benefit from masking. We conducted a randomized field experiment in Berlin, Germany, to investigate how masks affect distancing and ...
2021| Gyula Seres, Anna Balleyer, Nicola Cerutti, Jana Friedrichsen, Müge Süer
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DIW Discussion Papers 1970 / 2021
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive application information and personal ...
2021| Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Mit einer Begrüßung und Einführung in die Thematik durch Jürgen Schupp
Die Studie zum Vortrag finden Sie auf den Seiten des ifo-Instituts und hier.
20.09.2021| Maximilian Blömer (ifo), Andreas Peichl (ifo, LMU München) & Ronnie Schöb (FU Berlin), Jürgen Schupp
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Statement
Die Ergebnisse der heutigen Sitzung des Rates der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) kommentiert Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:
09.09.2021| Marcel Fratzscher