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Report
by Christian Westermeier and Markus M. Grabka
The analyses of wealth inequality based on survey data usually suffer from undercoverage of the upper percentiles of the very wealthy. Yet given this group’s substantial share of total net worth, it is of particular relevance. As no tax data are available in Germany, the largest fortunes can only be simulated using “rich lists.” For example, ...
01.04.2015
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Personnel news
Simon Kühne recently won a 7,050 US dollar award from the Charles Cannell Fund in Survey Methodology for his research project "Attitude Inferences and Interviewer Effects: The Role of Interpersonal Perceptions in Face-to-Face Interviews." The project is part of Simon’s dissertation on "Determinants of Interviewer Effects in Face-to-Face Surveys" and is being supervised by Martin Kroh.
The ...
30.03.2015
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Personnel news
Anika Rasner has left the SOEP team. She took up her new position in the Federal Chancellery on March 1. She will be responsible for organizing and evaluating the Citizen Dialogs that Chancellor Merkel plans to hold.
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
Maximilian Priem started work in the SOEP in March. His responsibilities will include integrating the FID data into the data released to SOEP users. He just completed his MSc in Public Economics at the FU Berlin with an analysis of income trends in East and West Germany and is planning to start graduate studies in the fall.
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
Lukas Hoppe joined the SOEP team in mid-February to work on the project “Socio-Spatial Segregation in Germany: Scope and Trends,” which is financed by the BMAS in the framework of the government’s Poverty and Wealth Report. The project will analyze additional microm data in combination with SOEP data. In his dissertation at the Bremen International Graduate School for the Social Siences ...
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
Jan Goebel and Daniel D. Schnitzlein have been appointed by Federal Labor Minister Andrea Nahles to the Scientific Advisory Board for the German federal government’s Fifth Poverty and Wealth Report (Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung). Every four years, the German government submits a poverty and wealth report to the Bundestag. The report is produced under the oversight of the Federal ...
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
Peter Eibich left the SOEP on March 1. He is now working as a Senior Researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department for Population Health, University of Oxford (http://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/). The work there will focus initially on the ACHE study and the cost-effectiveness of knee and hip replacements.
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
The SOEP welcomes Sandra Bohmann, who joined the SOEP team in mid-February as a doctoral student. After completing a degree in European Business Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg and a BA in International Business Management at Oxford Brookes University, she shifted her focus slightly and completed an MA in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Her thesis was ...
28.03.2015
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Interview
The interview with Prof. Dr. Martin Kroh is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 12/2015. It is available for Download as pdf-document
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23.03.2015
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Press Release
Although it has decreased slightly, the pay gap between women and men remains at a high level: In 2013, the gross salary of women employed full-time in leadership positions in the private sector was roughly 22 percent, or one-fifth, of the gross salary of men in such positions. In 2012, the so-called Gender Pay Gap stood at 24 percent; in 2002, it stood at 26 percent. These calculations are based on ...
20.03.2015
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Report
Aircraft noise is a particularly problematic source of noise as many airports are located in or near major cities and, as a result, densely populated areas are affected. Data from the Berlin Aging Study II (Berliner Altersstudie II, BASE-II), whose socio-economic module is based on the longitudinal Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study which has been conducted since 1984, allows us to examine the effect ...
25.02.2015
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Interview
The Interview with Peter Eibich is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 9/2015. It is available for Download as pdf document
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25.02.2015
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Press Release
The German tax and transfer system ensures that the net incomes of its citizens are distributed much more evenly than market income. Much of this redistribution takes place through the social security system. However, the majority of government benefits do not go to financially needy households. Tax expert Stefan Bach summarizes the key findings of a recent study conducted by the German Institute for ...
18.02.2015
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Press Release
DIW study takes broader approach to expenditure on education: in addition to spending on child daycare services and schools, expenditure on non-formal educational provisions such as leisure activities is also captured – researchers recommend linking contributions to income
Families who spend money on their children’s education face a heavier financial burden, the lower their income: while ...
18.02.2015
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Personnel news
SOEP Director Jürgen Schupp was appointed to the advisory board of the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. As a service infrastructure of the Leibniz Association, the ZBW runs the German National Library of Economics, the world’s largest information center for economic literature, online as well as offline at its locations in Kiel and Hamburg. During the 2015 – 2017 appointment ...
21.12.2014
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Report
Starting in January 2015, researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) research infrastructure at DIW Berlin will, together with colleagues from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and the University of Potsdam, be making data available for evaluation of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. They will not only be analyzing the data themselves but also providing them for ...
15.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Karl Brenke, Marcel Fratzscher, Markus M. Grabka, Elke Holst, Sebastian Hülle, Stefan Liebig, Maximilian Priem, Anika Rasner, Pia S. Schober, Jürgen Schupp, Juliane F. Stahl, Anna Wieber in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
People’s expectations after the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago and of reunification in 1990 were huge. The government promised to create “flourishing ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Markus M. Grabka in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Very nearly 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, households in eastern Germany have an average net worth of 67,400 euros which is less than half that of their counterparts in western Germany with an average net worth of 153,200 euros. In both parts of the country, real estate ownership is quantitatively the most important asset type. Although ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Anika Rasner in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Now, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, eastern and western German men are receiving similar state pensions, the main pillar in the system of old age provision in Germany. In contrast, the average pension paid to eastern German women far exceeds that of their western counterparts. A cohort comparison shows a narrowing of the gender gap ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Stefan Liebig and Sebastian Hülle, Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Almost twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unjust compared with approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the east-west ...
11.12.2014