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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 Mathias Bug and Kristina Meier in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2015
This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik – PKS) are treated so that they integrate dark figures (unreported crime) of crime types along with their specific grade of burden. The different treatments are based on own recent survey data. Two ...
14.01.2015
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Economic Bulletin
The Interview with Mathias Bug is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2015. It is available for Download as pdf document.
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14.01.2015
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Economic Bulletin
The construction industry remains a key pillar of the German economy. According to the latest construction volume calculations by DIW Berlin, the value of construction in 2014 and 2015 is forecast to grow far more rapidly than the economy as a whole: by a price-adjusted 3.3 percent and 2.1 percent in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Currently, new residential construction is an important engine for growth ...
14.01.2015| Martin Gornig, Claus Michelsen
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Press Release
DIW Berlin studied the effect of personality traits on intention to study – those more open to new experiences are more likely to attend college – the effect of personality is particularly high among children from non-academic families
In addition to factors such as school performance and parents’ educational background, personality is crucial as to whether students subsequently ...
09.01.2015
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Interview
The Interview with Dr. Johanna Storck is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 1-2/2015. It is available for download as pdf document.
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09.01.2015
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Report
Last Friday, twelve junior scientists received their certificates at the 2014 Commencement Ceremony of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). They were congratulated by the Dean of DIW Graduate Center, Helmut Lütkepohl, the Executive Board of the DIW Berlin, as well as Matthias Kleiner, President of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. In his speech, Mr. Kleiner emphasized ...
07.01.2015
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Report
We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 107, January 2015.
We have some interesting news about:
SOEP data distribution soep.v30beta (what's new in the data set, data ready for sending)
a note on cross-sectional weighting
our plans to revise our household questionnaire
news from the Cross-national Data Center in Luxembourg (LIS)
some upcoming events, and some past ...
05.01.2015
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Interview
At the age of just 28, psychologist Jule Specht is an Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and a Research Fellow at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. Jule Specht completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies in Münster. Since writing her diploma thesis, she has been studying the development of the personality across the life course using data from the SOEP. ...
05.01.2015
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Report
We are currently in the process of translating and publishing all of the age-specific questionnaires in the SOEP (mother-child / parent-child, youth questionnaires, and a questionnaire given to the relatives of deceased respondents), which up to now were not available in English. The translations are based on the original questionnaires from the 2012 survey; the questions from previous and subsequent ...
22.12.2014
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Report
Best publications with SOEP data in 2013 and 2014Please check if your publications are registered in our database and send the missing ones.
The "Society of Friends of DIW Berlin" (Vereinigung der Freunde des DIW Berlin, VdF) sponsors a prize to honor the best publications based on SOEP-data. This prize honors the very best scientific publication, the best scientific publication by a junior researcher ...
22.12.2014
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Report
Between October 17 and November 14, 2014, a number of SOEP users were kind enough to participate in this year’s SOEP User Survey and give us feedback about our services and infrastructure work. We would like to again thank all those who took the time to support our efforts at continually improving our services.
We are very pleased to be able to rely on a stable user community for our annual ...
22.12.2014
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Report
As a new technical feature, the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) is now being tested with 111 smart phones that were purchased for use in the 2014 SOEP-IS survey. In the current fieldwork phase, the ESM is being used with around 250 respondents, who are asked questions about how they are currently feeling seven times a day on seven subsequent days. Respondents are given the smart phones for this period ...
22.12.2014
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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 ...
21.12.2014
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Report
The link to the GC Online Application Form has been activated! From now on, the GC welcomes outstanding students from around the world to apply for our doctoral program. Please note the application deadline is March 31. If you have any inquiries concerning the application, please feel free to contact our colleague Nadin Gahrns (gradcenter@diw.de). We will inform candidates on interview appointments ...
19.12.2014
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Report
Follow up with the household questionnaires
We would first like to thank everyone who took time to take a critical look at our proposed deletions and changes in the different blocs of questions included in the individual questionnaire at periodic intervals. These changes are still under discussion so it is not too late for you to submit comments if you have not done so already. To involve our English ...
18.12.2014
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Personnel news
Lilo Wagner has sucessfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Berlin in December 2014. The thesis entitled Three Essays on Communication in Signalling Games was supervised by Prof. Dr. Pio Baake, DIW Berlin and TU Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler, WZB und TU Berlin. Since September 2009, Lilo Wagner has been a doctoral student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and ...
17.12.2014
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Press Release
The German economy has veered back on an upward course, after weak growth in the summer semester 2014. In this projection, real GDP is estimated to grow by 1.5 percent in 2014, by 1.4 percent in 2015 and by 1.7 percent in 2016. Inflation is projected to remain low, with 0.9 percent in 2014, 0.7 percent in 2015 and 1.4 percent in 2016. The growth rate of the global economy rose slightly in the third ...
17.12.2014
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Press Release
The situation of public budgets is relaxed and will remain so in the years 2015 and 2016 - despite a slight weakening in the coming year. In 2014, the overall budget is estimated to show a surplus of 0.5 percent relative to nominal gross domestic product; next year the surplus will shrink to 0.1 percent - mainly due to the increased pension payments - and in 2016it will reach 0.4 percent. The debt ...
17.12.2014