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Press Release
Housing rents in Germany have been rising for several years. Especially in major cities such as Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, the increases have recently been higher than the German average growth rate of rents that makes up roughly two percent. The German government would like to respond to this development by introducing caps on rents for new rentals. But are rent really necessary? The growth rates ...
09.04.2014
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Report
The Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM) started its work at the Humboldt-Universität (HU Berlin) in early April Situated in the heart of the capital city, the Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM) develops basic scientific principles and empirical data aimed at providing a factual basis for debate on integration issues ...
03.04.2014
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Report
The currently negotiated EU State aid guidelines require that member states provide aid to renewable energy solely in the form of a premium to the market price. Such market premiums risk however the efficiency of short-term, and the effectiveness of forward contracting, markets and increase the costs of financing for renewable projects. They advantage incumbents, create barriers to new entrants, and ...
02.04.2014
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Press Release
The daughter and son who take care of their parents or look after their neighbor who is no longer mobile while working at the same time: informal care is a central pillar of the German care system—particularly with regard to the aging population and the resultant increase in the demand for care. Between five and six percent of all adults regularly provide informal care according to DIW Berlin’s ...
02.04.2014
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Report
The SOEPnewsletter 104/ April 2014 is online.It gives information aboutthe meaning of SOEP-Core an update to the SOEP dataset v29new datasets ready for distributionthe potentials of the new SOEPinfo v2results of the SOEP User Survey 2013Call for Papers for the ISQOLS 2014 in Berlin interesting publications with the SOEP... and many more.
01.04.2014
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Personnel news
Daniel Schnitzlein received an appointment to a junior professorship in economics, in particular education economics, at the University of Hannover starting in summer semester 2014. Daniel has accepted the appointment, but will continue to work at the SOEP on a part-time basis. He has held a guest professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg since 2013. Daniel joined the ...
01.04.2014
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Personnel news
Carsten Schröder is new Head of the division Applied Panel Analysis at the SOEP since 1 March. He is one of three Deputy Directors of SOEP. Schröder was jointly appointedto Professor of Empirical Economic Research (W3) by DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.Before his engagement at the SOEP he was Assistant Professor at the university in Kiel. His main field of research is finance, ...
31.03.2014
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Personnel news
Gert G. Wagner is the new Chair of the Social Advisory Council to the German federal government. He was appointed to the 12-member advisory body by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Andrea Nahles, following a decision of the federal government. The Council’s primary task is to advise the German government and its legislative bodies on questions of pension policy and old-age security ...
30.03.2014
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Personnel news
Katharina Poschmann started working in the SOEP in mid-March. She will be covering for Simone Bartsch in the PIAAC-L project during her maternity leave as of May. Katharina studied sociology at the University of Bremen and worked for several years at Prognos AG as a research associate.
29.03.2014
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Personnel news
Maria Metzing has been working on a project as part of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) as a doctoral student since mid-January. Before this, she worked at DIW Berlin for one year as a student assistant in the SOEP-IS. In December, she completed her master’s degree in economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her master’s thesis, “Have the New Fathers Arrived Yet? ...
28.03.2014
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Personnel news
At the proposal of the Presidium of the Leopoldina and of the Standing Committee of Leopoldina, acatech and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Gert G. Wagner was appointed as a member of the Leopoldina's Working Group "Scientific and Socio-Political Importance of Population-Based Longitudinal Studies."
The Leopldina was appointed as the German National Academy of Sciences ...
28.03.2014
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Personnel news
Knut Wenzig has been working on the data and metadata management team in the Research Data Center SOEP since February. Knut has a Diplom degree in social sciences and worked previously in the National Educational Panel Survey (NEPS, University of Bamberg), where he was responsible for documentation and jointly responsible for development of a metadata system. His main field of interest is in metadata-driven ...
28.03.2014
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Personnel news
Simon Kühne joined the SOEP as a doctoral student in mid-February and is working in the area of survey research on the SAW project "SOEP-REC-LINK" with the IAB-SOEP migration sample. Simon Kühne studied sociology and completed his master’s degree in survey methodology in January at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Alongside his studies, Simon Kühne worked in the Chair of Empirical ...
27.03.2014
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Personnel news
Anita Kottwitz began working as a research associate on the project “Household and Family Structures as a Context for Employment Trajectories” (Project AP11 in the soeb3 research association) in mid-February. Anita is a doctoral student at the international Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE) and will complete her doctoral studies this summer.
27.03.2014
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Press Release
Three years after the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima one observes a certain momentum with regard to lifetime extensions as well as some interest in new building of nuclear power plants. Advocates of nuclear power argue in term of low-cost electricity generation, a secure supply as well as a contribution against climate change. The Reference Scenario of the European Commission - which sets the agenda ...
26.03.2014
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Personnel news
Nicola Jentzsch, Senior Researcher at the Department Competition and Consumers, has been reappointed by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) as expert on the economics of cyber security and privacy. ENISA is an agency of the European Union, founded in 2004, with headquarters in Crete. The agency is tasked to advise the European Union in the critical area of cyber security. ...
20.03.2014
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Press Release
Inflation 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 will lead to a slide into deflation. In view of the ECB's historically low policy rates, ...
19.03.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Elke Holst and Anja Kirsch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2014.The trend toward more women on the corporate boards of German companies continued in 2013, albeit on a small scale. The share of women on the supervisory boards of the 200 largest companies increased by more than two percentage points, and thus at a somewhat higher rate than in recent years, to just over 15 percent. The corresponding share ...
14.03.2014
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2014"Public Companies Could Play a Pioneering Role". Six Questions to Elke Holst
14.03.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Elke Holst and Anja Kirsch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2014.Last year, more women were appointed to the executive boards of major financial institutions. The share of women on the executive boards of banks and savings banks at the end of 2013 was a good six percent, which represents an increase of almost two percentage points over the previous year. This increase is primarily attributable to changes ...
14.03.2014