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Economic Bulletin
by Maximilian Priem and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
It is now a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gap in living standards between eastern and western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east-west divide prevails. Evidence ...
11.12.2014
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Personnel news
Marvin Petrenz joined the SOEP in early November as our new trainee Specialist in Market and Social Research. He is thus the fourth “cohort” of students trained in the SOEP for this profession. Marvin comes from the field of product design and will be contributing his own expertise in the area of surveys.
08.12.2014
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Personnel news
Ingrid Tucci accepted her appointment to a junior professorship for "The Sociology of Migration from Comparative Perspective." Marco Giesselmann accepted his appointment to a junior professorship for "Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research".
Both will be teaching at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Bielefeld starting in the winter semester 2014/2015. Both positions were created ...
28.11.2014
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Report
The European Economic Association (EEA) gave one of the FEEM Awards 2014 for the best papers presented at the annual congress of the EEA to Christian Krekel, doctoral student at the SOEP. The award was established in 2009 and aims to reward new ideas addressing key economic issues at the European and global scale. It honors young economists who are no more than three years past their PhD defense. The ...
19.09.2014
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Personnel news
Alexandra Fedorets joined the SOEP department as a post-doc researcher on June 23. Alexandra graduated from Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science with a doctoral thesis on occupational mobility, job tasks and wages. Alexandra Fedorets has gathered professional experience as teaching and research assistant at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, as well as in various projects with ...
03.07.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Markus M. Grabka and Christian Westermeier in: DIW Economic Bulletin 6/2014According to current analyses based on the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the total net assets of German households in 2012 amounted to 6.3 trillion euros. Almost 28 percent of the adult population had no or even negative net wealth. On average, individual net assets in 2012 totaled over 83,000 euros, slightly ...
16.06.2014
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Economic Bulletin
"Unemployed Have Considerably Fewer Assets Than Ten Years Ago." Eight Questions to Markus M. Grabka
16.06.2014
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Press Release
Germany's draft bill to improve the benefits provided under the statutory pension insurance scheme (Gesetz über Leistungsverbesserungen in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherungen) will entitle, in particular, those who have contributed for many years (at least 45) to retire early on a full pension (without any reductions to their pension payments) at the age of 63. The proposed reform is in stark ...
07.05.2014
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Personnel news
Philipp Eisnecker joined the SOEP as a doctoral student in early April. He is working in the area of survey research on the SAW Project “SOEP-REC-LINK” with data from the IAB/SOEP migration sample. Philipp studied sociology at the University of Mannheim and the Free University Berlin, where he completed his master’s degree in the “Sociology—European Societies” program ...
03.05.2014
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Report
The Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM) started its work at the Humboldt-Universität (HU Berlin) in early April Situated in the heart of the capital city, the Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM) develops basic scientific principles and empirical data aimed at providing a factual basis for debate on integration issues ...
03.04.2014
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Press Release
According to current analyses based on the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the total net assets of German households in 2012 amounted to 6.3 trillion euros. Almost 28 percent of the adult population had no or even negative net worth. On average, individual net worth in 2012 totaled more than 83,000 euros; that is slightly more than ten years previously. The degree of wealth inequality remained virtually ...
26.02.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Martin Kroh and Christian Könnecke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty threshold and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany has slightly above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study ...
24.01.2014
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014"The Poor and Unemployed Show Less Political Interest". Seven Questions to Martin Kroh
24.01.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Markus M. Grabka and Jan Goebel in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the updated analyses of personal income ...
24.01.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Adrian Hille, Annegret Arnold and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. Young people's leisure activities are significantly different today than they were ten years ago. The obvious use of communication and entertainment electronics, such as cell phones, computers, and games consoles is only one aspect - there are also less visible changes: informal activities such as meeting with ...
24.01.2014
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Press Release
As of 2005, and since 2008 in particular, child care provision for under-three-year-olds in Germany has been expanded across the board. We examine whether this expansion of services using evidence of a reduced burden on mothers and fathers with children in this age group has significantly increased these parents’ satisfaction with various areas of their lives. To shed more light on this issue, ...
12.12.2013
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Press Release
Today, Germany's citizens are happier on average than at any other point in time since reunification. Even though more than 20 years have passed, the average level of happiness in eastern Germany is still significantly lower than that in western Germany. This is demonstrated by the most recent long-term Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) data gathered by TNS Infratest Sozialforschung in collaboration ...
21.11.2013
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Press Release
The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past three decades. The data also indicate ...
17.10.2013
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Press Release
A job loss has considerable negative consequences for those hit by unemployment. This is all the more relevant if families are affected. It not only relates to a family's financial situation: a mother losing her job can also impact on child development. A study conducted by DIW Berlin using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) shows that this is indeed the case as far as non-cognitive ...
14.08.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Daniel Schnitzlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 05/2013. For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. ...
13.05.2013