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Report
Since autumn of 2011, the SOEP has been offering in-house traineeships to students who are studying to be specialists in market and social research (Fachangestellte für Markt- und Sozialforschung, FAMS), a three-year degree program that is part of the German dual system of vocational training. Specialists in market and social research are responsible for organizational and operational tasks in ...
08.12.2017
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Report
K2ID is short for „Kinder und Kitas in Deutschland“ and refers to the German name of the surveys carried out as part of a project entitled “Early childhood education and care quality in the Socio-Economic Panel” (K²ID-SOEP).
Since October 2017 the data are distributed via the RDC SOEP.
For more information about the dataset please click here.
08.12.2017
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SOEP-Core version v33 is now available and can be ordered.
We are looking foward to your order. To order the data please click here.
The new data distribution (1984–2016) “SOEP v33” provides, for the most recent survey year 2016, the usual wave-specific data files BGPBRUTTO, BGP, BGPKAL, BGPGEN, BGHBRUTTO, BGH, BGHGEN, BGKIND, and BFPLUECKE as well as the updated files with a longitudinal ...
08.12.2017
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The SOEP v33 data release (1984-2016) includes data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany. This is the first SOEP data release to include this new data set. More information on the survey can be found here.
The data are provided for downloading—either as 'stand alone' data set or integrated into the SOEP-Core data set—by the Research Data Center of the SOEP. To obtain the ...
07.12.2017
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Personnel news
Clara Welteke, who works at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Policies on Labor Supply Decisions - Empirical Evidence from Germany" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Albrecht Glitz ...
07.12.2017
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Press Release
The introduction of the minimum wage in Germany led to significant increases in wages –– However, around seven percent of eligible workers earn less than minimum wage, with the marginally employed and employees at small businesses being particularly affected –– When one also takes into account workers who are not eligible for a minimum wage, such as freelancers, a total of around ...
06.12.2017
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Press Release
The following study from DIW Berlin examines the effects of different exit scenarios from the European Central bank’s bond purchase program on the European economy – exiting early would especially depress the inflation rate
What if the ECB were to reduce its bond purchase program by more than what it reported at the end of October? What if it reduced its bond holdings quicker or earlier? ...
06.12.2017
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Press Release
On January 1, 2018, Liebig will become director of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a member of the institute’s Executive Board
Stefan Liebig, a professor of sociology at Bielefeld University, will succeed Gert G. Wagner as a member of the German Institute for Economic Research’s Executive Board on January 1, 2018. Having reached retirement age, Wagner (64) is relinquishing his position. ...
01.12.2017
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We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 117, November 2017.
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are quite sure to send out the new SOEP-Core wave (data 1984-2016, including data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees) by end of November and provide you with information what's new,
invite you to submit papers for our SOEP2018 Conference,
give information about changes in the SOEP's leadership team,
inform about ...
30.11.2017
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Press Release
Two DIW studies on the partial retirement scheme and raising the normal retirement age: simulations show positive employment effects and fiscal implications
A normal retirement age that increases relative to the rise in life expectancy after 2030 could help keep the funding of the statutory pension insurance scheme stable without the pension level decreasing further. Depending on the scenario, a ...
29.11.2017
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Economic Bulletin
The world needs to continue working to protect the climate – this is generally undisputed. However, there is no agreement on which technologies should be used to decarbonize the energy sector. Many international scenarios still assume a relevant role for nuclear power in the future. However, a study by the German Institute for Economic Research shows that the Paris climate protection target – ...
29.11.2017| Claudia Kemfert, Pao-Yu Oei
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The economic barometer of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) once again reports exceptionally strong growth in the final quarter of 2017: the index level increased to 113 points. GDP should thus continue to outperform at a read of 0.8 percent in the fourth quarter. “Caution should be exercised when interpreting the euphoric sentiment indicators,” warns Ferdinand Fichtner, ...
29.11.2017
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Personnel news
Vaishali Zambre, who works at the Education and Family department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Determinants of College Enrollment. Three Empirical Essays in the Economics of Education" was supervised by Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Thomas Siedler, PhD ...
27.11.2017
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Economic Bulletin
Due to increasing shares of renewable energies in electricity production, the cost-effective system integration of these installations is becoming more and more important. Technologies and locations are viewed as system-friendly when they are more cost-efficient and easier to integrate because they, unlike other installations, produce at times when electricity is more valuable. This report shows that ...
24.11.2017| Nils May, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein
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Press Release
The R&D expenditure of German companies abroad has more than doubled compared to 2003. At the same time, their domestic investments are increasing sharply – The majority of the investments can be attributed to the automotive engineering and pharmaceutical industries – The share of foreign companies in R&D investments in Germany is sinking.
In recent years, German companies have ...
22.11.2017
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Press Release
Baden-Württemberg, Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, and Bavaria are the leading federal states in the field of renewable energy. That is the result from a comparison of the federal states which was compiled by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung ...
16.11.2017
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Personnel news
Songül Tolan, who works at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Partial Retirement, Financial Student Aid, and Labor Market Outcomes" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Arthur van Soest (Tilburg University).
We congratulate ...
14.11.2017
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Press Release
Nicolas R. Ziebarth (35), a student of the DIW Graduate Center’s first class, was promoted to “Associate Professor with indefinite tenure” in the Department for Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (USA). Ziebarth’s area of research is applied health and labor economics.
13.11.2017
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Report
Fostering cross-country risk-sharing via capital markets is a central macroeconomic objective of the Capital Markets Union. Risk-sharing means that individuals, firms or public-sector authorities, located in a region or country suffering from a temporary and idiosyncratic economic shock, would be able to compensate the regional output gap (i. e., lack of aggregate demand, increasing unemployment and ...
10.11.2017| Dorothea Schäfer
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Personnel news
Christian Krekel, who worked at the department of German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), has successfully defended his dissertation at the Paris School of Economics.The dissertation with the title "Evaluating the Non-Monetary Impacts of Major Events, Infrastructure, and Institutions" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics) and Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner (DIW Berlin, Technical ...
10.11.2017