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Report
In 2012, the SOEP again collected individual wealth information. The original data are stored in the file BCP. In the meantime, the generated wealth information has been updated to include wealth information from 2012. The files PWEALTH and HWEALTH are now available for download. If you are interested in obtaining these files, please contact Michaela Engelmann (soepmail@diw.de). The process of imputing ...
11.07.2014
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Report
The innovative modules for the 2014 SOEP-IS data collection have now been selected. We will be able to include 16 out of a total of 41 proposals submitted. In the process of data collection for SOEP-IS 2014, we will also be purchasing 111 smart phones for further research on the well-being and life satisfaction of SOEP-IS respondents. For this, we will use the experience sampling method (ESM), a ...
11.07.2014
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Report
On July 8, 2014 the team of the research project "RESOURCES - Resource Markets under Climate Constraints" together with participants of the project "Green Paradox" of PIK and ifo Institute organized a workshop on the topic "Modeling advances of resource markets in times of the fossil renaissance". Both projects are supported by the BMBF program "Economics of Climate ...
10.07.2014
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Press Release
One of the key tasks of this legislative period is to restructure the federal fiscal equalization system by 2020. There is a lot of money involved: in 2013, nearly 14 percent of ultimate tax revenue from the Länder was redistributed. The existing system has developed over time, is highly complex and convoluted. Thus, there is a high demand for modifications and fundamental adjustments would be ...
09.07.2014
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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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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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Economic Bulletin
Europe’s Investment Slump: Five Questions to Claus Michelsen
03.07.2014
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Report
The SOEPnewsletter 105/ July 2014 is published.It gives information aboutnew developments in the research about inequality the data distribution of SOEP-IS data as well asour offer to bring your research question into the Innovation Sample the analysis about the sensivity of some variables Sensitivitätsanalysen für die gemeinsame Nutzung von SOEP und FiD upcoming events and past conferencesthe ...
30.06.2014
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Interview
Axel Glemser is the new director in charge of SOEP at TNS Infratest Sozialforschung in Munich. He took up this new position on May 1, 2014. We had the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Glemser in Berlin and ask him a few questions. What are your responsibilities in your new job? I’m responsible for all the data collection work done by TNS Infratest on behalf of DIW Berlin. That means everything ...
30.06.2014
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Press Release
Coal-fired power stations are responsible for around a third of Germany's carbon emissions. Failure to reduce the persistently high level of coal-fired power generation threatens Germany's climate targets for 2020 and 2050 and undermines a sustainable energy transition. Calculations by DIW Berlin and other expert opinions prove that, in the long term, lignite, in particular, is no longer relevant for ...
25.06.2014
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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
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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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Economic Bulletin
by Christian Zankiewicz in: DIW Economic Bulletin 6/2014People are investing their life savings in financial products, for instance, to provide for their retirement, and in doing so they are making their future financial situation almost entirely dependent on the success of these investments. The financial sector promotes numerous investment opportunities with widely varying levels of risk - ...
16.06.2014
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Report
If you want to attend the SOEP 2014 Conference in Berlin (June 30 - July 1, 2014): don't forget to register!Please visit the conference Website at www.diw.de/soep2014 toget inspired by our short new video clip (conference teaser)study the scientific programm with 60 presentationsand register online (deadline is Monday, June 16, 2014)Hope to see you soon in Berlin.
13.06.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Kerstin Bernoth, Marcel Fratzscher, Philipp König in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2014Inflation in the euro area has been below the European Central Bank's target for almost a year now and it is also expected to remain at a very low level in the near future. On the one hand, such a low level of inflation is not in line with the ECB's objective. On the other hand, there is the risk that this situation ...
13.06.2014
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2014The ECB’s Policy of Low Interest Rates Is Indispensable for Now: Five Questions to Dorothea Schäfer
13.06.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Marius Kokert, Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2014Member states of the euro area have been struggling with the legacies of the severe financial and economic crisis for four years now. But debt ratios are still rising. Negative primary balances, low growth, and low inflation do not allow for a recovery similar to the one in the US after the Second World War. Between ...
13.06.2014
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Press Release
The crisis in the European currency area is not over yet. Although the situation in the financial markets is currently relatively calm, the economic crisis appears to be bottoming out in most countries. Nevertheless, fundamental design flaws in the Monetary Union continue to exist. If these are not fully addressed, it will only be a matter of time before a new crisis hits, and a partial or complete ...
12.06.2014