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“Familien in Deutschland” (FiD) is a survey focusing on young families and families in challenging circumstances (low-income, single-parent, and large families). The FiD data are now available to the scientific community. The process of obtaining the data is fairly simple, although slightly more involved than for the SOEP data: additionally to the application form an abstract must be ...
30.03.2012
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Our SOEP colleague Thomas Siedler, Ph.D., was appointed to a W3 professorship at the University of Hamburg in the Department of Economics, focusing on microeconometrics. His position there begins April 1, 2012. He will remain closely associated with the SOEP and DIW Berlin and will continue collaborating on the BMBF-funded project BASE II (Berlin Aging Study II).
30.03.2012
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Personnel news
In 2012, Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl is the new Dean of the DIW Graduate Center.Helmut Lütkepohl is an internationally renowned econometrician and former professor at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2011 he has been voted the no. 1 German Economists Abroad in a ranking published by the newspaper Handelsblatt. While strengthing the GC's portfolio, Helmut Lütkepohl also ...
07.03.2012
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For the first time, the GC offers a course in Advanced Microeconomics in cooperation with the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS). The lecturers are Ulrich Kameke (HU Berlin), Dorothea Kübler (WZB, TU Berlin) and Georg Weizsäcker (DIW Berlin, UCL). The course is open for students from both programs. GC students also participate in the Advanced Macroeconomics ...
05.03.2012
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On the 5th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics of the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics Martin Simmler from DIW Berlin received the “Best Paper Award” for his work on “How Do Taxes Affect Investment When Firms Face Financial Constraints?” In this study, the author analyzes the effects of corporate income taxation on firms' investment in case of binding and non-binding financial ...
05.03.2012
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We happily announce that the newest cohort started the GC program on October 1st, 2011. 14 outstanding doctoral students will work through the first year’s intensive curriculum and pursue their PhDs raising the total number of GC students currently enrolled in the program to 58.Learn more about our new students here.
05.03.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Greek Economy Needs Growth Strategy By Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2012.Greece has been living beyond its means for a long time now and has accumulated foreign debt. The high level of national debt is merely a reflection of the problems; the actual cause is insufficient economic power. The top-priority political objective is to strengthen the substance of the economy-in particular, the ...
02.03.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"There Is Virtually No Export Base.": Six Questions to Karl Brenke
02.03.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Self-Employment in Germany: the Trend Has Been Increasing for Some TimeBy: Michael Fritsch, Alexander Kritikos, Alina Rusakova in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2012.Entrepreneurial self-employment in Germany has undergone a strong upturn in the last 20 years. The number of self-employed people rose by 40 percent between 1991 and 2009. The reasons for this development are the catch-up processes in eastern ...
02.03.2012
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Economic Bulletin
German-Chinese Economic Relations: Opportunities and RisksBy: Georg Erber in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2012.Economic relations between Germany and China have developed exceptionally well over the past few decades. China has grown to become one of Germany's key trading partners and may even become the second-largest trading partner after France in the coming year. And yet China's focus is increasingly ...
02.03.2012
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Tilman Brück joined the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at the end of 2012. The BGSS serves as the platform for international graduate training at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Department of Social Sciences. The graduate school's mission is to train and promote doctoral researchers from Germany and abroad/the world for both scientific and professional careers. Tilman Brück ...
21.02.2012
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Tony Muhumuza will attend the 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics to be held on 23-29 April 2012 in Buch, Lake Ammer, near Munich, Germany. He has been selected as one of the participants, out of a large pool of highly qualified applicants.
21.02.2012
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The InterAcademy Panel (IAP - the global network of science academies) has appointed Tilman Brück to serve on its Advisory Group for the next IAP policy statement on population. The Advisory Group includes 14 international experts on population and development and is chaired by Professor Charles Godfray of the University of Oxford.Marc Vothknecht is in Jakarta from January to April 2012. He is ...
21.02.2012
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Another new project funded by the BMBF is entitled "A System of Economic Indicators to Measure Security and Security Provision in Germany" (WISIND). The project aims to measure the state of insecurity in Germany by creating an indicator that tracks security threats and security provision in the country as well as their effects on the economy over the years. It will run from March 2012 to ...
21.02.2012
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The Department of Development and Security started a new research project on how nomads cope with climate shocks in Western Mongolia. The project will run from February 2012 to December 2015 and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is led by Tilman Brück and Kati Schindler. A project website will be launched shortly.
21.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Extent and Effects of Employees in Germany Forgoing Vacation TimeBy Daniel D. Schnitzlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent ...
03.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Add-On Premiums Increase Price Transparency : More Policy Holders Switch Health PlansBy Peter Eibich, Hendrik Schmitz, Nicolas R. Ziebarth in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.The German health care reform implemented in 2009 led to a considerable increase in price transparency within the statutory health insurance (SHI) (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) system and also made it more consumer-friendly ...
03.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"Poor Products at the Expense of Pension Policy Holders": Six Questions to Kornelia Hagen
03.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Ten Years of the Riester Pension Scheme: No Reason to Celebrateby Kornelia Hagen, Axel Kleinlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.Since their introduction, the Riester pension scheme and the individual Riester products have become less beneficial to savers. Contracts concluded today will often lead to lower returns compared to contracts concluded in 2001. From a social perspective, meaning pension ...
03.02.2012
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After sending out the SOEP data version 27 (Data 1984-2010) in some datasets bugs have been reported.COGDJ, SOEPlong and some labels in the $HBRUTTO files are affected.For more information please see the site Known Bugs/Fixes. We provide fixes for download. Please contact our hotline soepmail@diw.de to get a personalized link.
20.01.2012