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Economic Bulletin
by Adrian Hille, Annegret Arnold and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. Young people's leisure activities are significantly different today than they were ten years ago. The obvious use of communication and entertainment electronics, such as cell phones, computers, and games consoles is only one aspect - there are also less visible changes: informal activities such as meeting with ...
24.01.2014
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SOEP datasets are now available for use in university teaching. Your first option is to run one of the following scripts for SPSS, Stata, or SAS to create the teaching version from the installed original data (SOEP v.29):Scripts for SPSSStataSAS Alternatively, you can order the SOEP teaching dataset in the format you need from our SOEPhotline at soepmail@diw.de. The procedure is nearly the same as ...
23.01.2014
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Press Release
As part of the energy transition process, the German government has set far-reaching energy efficiency targets, including doubling the annual energy-efficient refurbishment rate for existing residential buildings from one to two percent. DIW Berlin has estimated the additional energy-related investment required to meet these targets and analyzed the impact this could have on the economy. In the long ...
22.01.2014
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Press Release
The trend toward more women on the boards of directors 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 thereby at a somewhat higher rate than in recent years, to just over 15 percent. The corresponding share of women on executive boards virtually stagnated at a ...
15.01.2014
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Since mid-November, Florin Winter has been temporarily replacing Denise Saßenroth in the BASE II project during her maternity leave. He completed his master’s degree in social sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin this summer. In his master’s thesis “Möglichkeiten und Beiträge kollektiver gesellschaftlicher Akteure zum Schutz der Umwelt: Auswirkungen ...
02.01.2014
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Carsten Schröder has been offered an appointment (W3-Professur) in the Department of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin as “Professor of Economics, with a focus on Empirical Economic Research” in conjunction with a position as Head of the Applied Panel Analysis area in the SOEP at DIW Berlin. Carsten obtained his doctorate at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. ...
02.01.2014
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The SOEPnewsletter 103/ January 2014 is now available. We inform about the new SOEP dataset v29Families in Germany (FiD)the new studies PIACC-L and SOEP-ECEC News from Cornell and Ohio State University SOEP 2014 call for papersSOEP activities on happiness research in 2013SOEP SymposiumSOEPcampus@DIW Berlin 2014 1,000th SOEP-based publication in an (S)SCI Journal... and a lot more.
02.01.2014
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The DIW Berlin has raised the importance and visibility of gender research at DIW Berlin by making Gender Studies part of the Department of the Executive Board. No other member institute of the Leibniz Association in Germany has yet undertaken a similar initiative. To strengthen this research area further, the DIW has also announced a postdoctoral position opening in gender research. Gender Studies ...
02.01.2014
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In 2013, twelve doctoral students from the Graduate Center have successfully finished their study. Ten of them attended the Graduation Ceremony on December 13 in the Schumpeter Hall, together with DIW colleagues, thesis supervisors, friends and family members. The Celebration was accompanied with a violin concert by Benedikt Bindewald and Maria Jadziewicz. The DIW executive board handed over the graduation ...
30.12.2013
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With this year's data distribution, SOEP v29, the data now again are being provided in both the normal and "long" format (SOEP v29). "SOEPlong" is a highly compressed, easily analyzed version of the SOEP data that, according to numerous enthusiastic users, is much simpler to handle than the usual version. The data are no longer provided as wave-specific individual files but rather ...
20.12.2013
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Maximilian Podstawski has been granted a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) from December 2013 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates him on his success!
19.12.2013
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Press Release
In 2013 the German economy will grow at 0.4 percent which is below the growth rate of potential output. The output gap is 0.5 percent. In 2014 gross domestic product will expand at 1,6 percent and the output gap will nearly be closed. In 2015 the economy will grow above trend at a rate of 2 percent.
The pace of expansion of the world economy has accelerated in the third quarter. Advanced economies ...
18.12.2013
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The Stata version of the SOEP data download contains the labels in German and English language.Please have a look at the Stata command label language You could change the language by using label language EN
17.12.2013
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Now included: the documentation of the Biographie and History Data!The recent SOEP-Daten (v29, 1984-2012) for the first time are distributed by download (after signing a data distribution contract and via a server with special encryption method). To save space on these special server, the data documentation is not included in the data download. We kindly ask to download the documentation of the data ...
16.12.2013
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Press Release
The 54 million vehicles in Germany drove almost 720 billion kilometers in 2012. To date, alternative drive systems and fuels have not achieved any notable success in terms of vehicle numbers or vehicle use. However, the diesel engine, which has higher emissions of air pollutants, is gaining ground: diesel vehicles now constitute 29 percent of all passenger vehicles and 43 percent of all kilometers ...
16.12.2013
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From December 12 to 13, the annual Graduate Center Winter Workshop took place in the Schumpeter Hall of DIW Berlin. During the two day workshop, doctoral students presented their current research and received feedback from their supervisors and peers. The program consisted of 12 presentations that cover a large range of topics in economics and social sciences, including four by GC alumni. Please find ...
14.12.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by Marcel Fratzscher, Philipp König and Claudia Lambert in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/12 /2013. The debate about TARGET2, the payment system of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), has resulted in controversial discussions in Germany in recent years. The present study by DIW Berlin concludes that fears often expressed in this context of the risks to Germany are largely unfounded. ...
13.12.2013
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/12 /2013"Settling TARGET Balances after the Euro Crisis". Seven Questions to Claudia Lambert and Philipp König
13.12.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by Franziska Holz, Philipp M. Richter and Christian von Hirschhausen in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/12 /2013. The significance of natural gas is on the rise due to the restructuring and decarbonization of energy systems worldwide. Natural gas is widely available and flexible as it can be used in electricity generation, manufacturing, transport and private households. Compared to other fossil fuels, ...
13.12.2013
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Press Release
As of 2005, and since 2008 in particular, child care provision for under-three-year-olds in Germany has been expanded across the board. We examine whether this expansion of services using evidence of a reduced burden on mothers and fathers with children in this age group has significantly increased these parents’ satisfaction with various areas of their lives. To shed more light on this issue, ...
12.12.2013