We congratulate Jonas Hannane on successfully defending his dissertation on 08 October 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization’ and he was supervised by Tomaso Duso and Hannes Ullrich. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
We congratulate Johannes Seebauer on successfully defending his dissertation on November 19, 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics’ and he was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career!
Johannes Seebauer, Research Associate at SOEP and the DIW Graduate Center, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics” with summa cum laude on November 19, 2024. The scientific reviewers were Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. Congratulation!
We congratulate Mats Kröger on successfully defending his dissertation on 26 September 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Does a fair transition reduce efficiency? Essays on the distributional effects of energy and climate policy’ and he was supervised by Karsten Neuhoff and Chloé Le-Coq. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
In this paper we document trends in inequality in earnings and disposable household income for men and women in Germany from 2001 to 2019. We find that males at the lower half of the earnings distribution have lower earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. Households and the welfare state has cushioned much---but not all---of the...
In 2023, heating energy prices increased by substantial 31 percent compared to the previous year, following a 33 percent increase already seen in 2022. Calculations based on data from the energy service provider ista show average price increases were the highest in the German state of Rhineland- Palatinate, and the lowest in Hamburg. Owing to these price hikes and ongoing energy-saving efforts, the ...
Die möglichen Folgen eines künftigen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump kommentiert DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher wie folgt:
Zu den möglichen Konsequenzen des Ausgangs der US-Präsidentschaftswahlen für die Klimapolitik eine Einschätzung von Energieökonomin Claudia Kemfert, Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
