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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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Press Release
The labor force participation rate for women has increased by ten percentage points since 1995, while the corresponding figure for men has only risen by one percentage point. Reasons for this include women’s improved qualifications, which are catching up with those of men, and their greater willingness to participate in working life and take advantage of changes in the economic structure.
Women ...
30.01.2015
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Interview
The Interview with Karl Brenke is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2015. It is available for Download as pdf document.
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28.01.2015
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Press Release
Persistently low shares of women on executive and supervisory boards – very few companies presently meet pending compulsory gender quotas – DIW Berlin presents proposals to remedy this
In 2014, women remained the exception at the top of the corporate ladder: at barely five percent, the share of female executive board members in the top 200 companies (ranked by turnover) was up just one ...
21.01.2015
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Interview
The Interview with Elke Holst is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2015. It is available for Download as pdf document.
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21.01.2015
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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 Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
The economic gap between eastern and western Germany is still sizeable, even 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In terms of GDP per inhabitant and productivity, eastern Germany has attained nearly three-quarters of western German levels, respectively. Since some years, the catch-up process is advancing very slowly indeed. The main reason ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Eastern Germany Must Focus on Education and Innovation: Six Questions to Karl Brenke
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Elke Holst and Anna Wieber in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany than in the west. Although the disparity is marginal now, the two regions started from dramatically different levels. In 1991, immediately after reunification, the employment rate for women in western Germany ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Alexander S. Kritikos in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2014
Although Greece is showing initial signs of recovering from its 2008 crash, its economy continues to suffer. It has become clear that the economy will not become prosperous only by the given recommendations of the so called Troika, namely by cutting costs and public expenditures, and by making institutional reforms, as much as these steps ...
17.11.2014
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Economic Bulletin
Economic Reinvention: Greece's path forward: Six Questions to Alexander Kritikos
17.11.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Kerstin Bernoth, Patrick Burauel and Philipp Engler in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2014
Member countries of the euro area, and the peripheral states in particular, face an especially difficult problem: on the one hand, they urgently need stronger economic growth to reduce high debt and unemployment levels. On the other hand, however, they have no scope to use fiscal policy to stimulate ...
17.11.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Marcel Fratzscher, Christoph Große Steffen, Malte Rieth in: Economic Bulletin 9/2014
Greece is standing at a crossroads. The need for a third rescue package has now become a critical issue. The Greek government is calling for another de facto-public debt restructuring. An alternative option presented here would be to convert existing GLF loans into GDP-linked loans. Interest payments ...
06.11.2014
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Press Release
Although the European Central Bank (ECB) has been pursuing an expansionary monetary policy course for many years, inflation in the euro area remains extremely weak. Furthermore, as the present Wochenbericht clearly demonstrates, the inflation expectations in the euro area are no longer firmly anchored. Expectations are becoming increasingly decoupled from the ECB's inflation target which, in turn, ...
10.09.2014
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Press Release
In the past decade, wages in Germany have risen more slowly than economic performance. Year on year, average wages remained approximately 0.3 percent behind what was available in redistribution volume, given the development of production. Although there are also sectors with low wages, in which wage increases were insufficient according to this benchmark--such as the hospitality industry, construction, ...
13.08.2014
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Press Release
Greece finds itself at the crossroads. There is the imminent question if Greece should apply for a third public support programme. Government officials are confronting European partners with new calls for a de facto haircut on its outstanding debt. Another option would be to swap existing loans from the European support programs into GDP-linked loans. As a result, interest payments would be linked ...
30.07.2014
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Press Release
The mobility of the labor force within the European Union - measured as the proportion of EU foreigners in EU-15 countries to the total EU labor force - increased by approximately one-quarter to almost 3.1 percent from 2007 to 2012. This is primarily due to increased migration of persons from the new eastern European EU member states such as Poland and Romania and, to a lesser degree, due to increased ...
23.07.2014
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Press Release
An investment fund should temporarily improve the capital stock of small and medium-sized enterprises as part of a comprehensive agenda - In the euro area, there is an annual investment gap of approximately two percent of GDP or 180 billion euros - Many sectors both in the manufacturing and service industries are showing signs of a significant lack of investment, especially the energy sectorThe German ...
03.07.2014
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Economic Bulletin
"We Need to Give Impetus to the Private Sector": Six Questions to Marcel Fratzscher
03.07.2014
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Press Release
The German economy is expected to grow by 1.8 percent in 2014, keeping that pace in 2015, at a rate of two percent. GDP is expected to grow during the forecast period at rates only slightly above the trend; the slight under-utilization will therefore decrease correspondingly slowly. Inflation remains weak. Global economic growth was weaker at the start of the year. In both the industrialized and emerging ...
17.06.2014