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The SOEPnewsletter 100 / 2013 is ready for download.We inform you about... · the new IAB-SOEP immigrant sample (Comment) · several SOEPcampus workshops· our special: xelebrating our 100th issue of the SOEPnewsletter· 3rd wave of FiD (Families in Germany) data · a SOEP timeline ...
27.03.2013
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The data from the SOEP-related study “Familien in Deutschland” (FiD, Families in Germany) are now available for the first three waves, spanning 2010–2012. Each year, more than 4,000 household interviews are carried out with single-parent families, families with more than two children, low-income families, and families with small children. The survey also includes more than 7,000 personal ...
27.03.2013
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Press Release
The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in relation to respondents to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the survey year 2009 (2002 through 2012). ...
06.03.2013
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Press Release
Since last year, Germany has not even been runner-up in visible exports. It has been overtaken by China, and now the US, on the list of the most prolific global exporting nations. But does this mean losing more than just an attention-grabbing title? Are exports becoming less important to Germany? A closer look at structures and trade patterns shows that in fact the opposite is true. Exports have never ...
06.03.2013
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Personnel news
Das SOEP möchte sich im Bereich Empirische Bildungsforschung, Familienforschung sowie Arbeitsmarktforschung verstärken und sucht deswegeneine neue Kollegin, einen neuen Kollegen (Postdoc bzw. wiss. Mitarbeiter/in)die/der sowohl eigenständig Forschung auf den o.g. Gebieten betreibt als auch die Verantwortung für die Weiterentwicklung und Bereitstellung entsprechender Variablen übernimmt.Die ...
04.03.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Elke Holst and Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013. Despite the commitment that has been expressed by German companies to bringing more women into top management, at the end of 2012, only four percent of all seats on the executive boards and just under 13 percent on the supervisory boards of the top 200 companies in Germany were occupied by women. This corresponds to an increase of ...
01.03.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Elke Holst and Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013. In the German financial sector, the majority of employees are women, but it is still men who hold the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks, they were still vastly underrepresented at the end of 2012 (up 1 percentage point from the end of 2011). The story is similar ...
01.03.2013
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013 "Slight Rise in Number of Female Executives": Seven Questions to Elke Holst
01.03.2013
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Press Release
Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission) tasked with developing an alternative to the GDP for measuring growth, prosperity, and quality of life. This ...
01.03.2013
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The wrong signal is being sent at the wrong time, writes Marcel Fratzscher in: Financial Times (21st of February 2013) There is a lot of hype about the prospects of an EU-US free trade agreement, especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last week. Supporters point to the benefits such an agreement could bring to both economies. Yet the costs are likely to outweigh the ...
22.02.2013
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Press Release
Over the past two decades, the number of self-employed in Germany has risen dramatically. This is almost exclusively due to an increasing number of self-employed persons without employees (solo entrepreneurs). There has been a particularly marked escalation in the number of self-employed women. Although some solo entrepreneurs command high incomes, the average earnings of this section of the workforce ...
13.02.2013
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Press Release
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of retirement-aged people in Germany still in employment approximately doubled to almost 760,000. The over-65 age group rose faster than any other in the workforce during this period. DIW Berlin has examined the employment situation of older workers in Germany in an attempt to find the underlying causes of this sharp increase. The results: the reason for this significant ...
06.02.2013
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Personnel news
As of February 1, 2013, macroeconomist Marcel Fratzscher, former Head of the International Policy Analysis Division at the European Central Bank (ECB), will be assuming his new role as President of DIW Berlin. "I look forward to my new responsibilities and am committed to working with the entire staff of DIW Berlin to fulfill our mission of excellence in research and policy advice," said ...
05.02.2013
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The SOEPmonitors from the current data release (1984-2011) have just been published. In them, selected indicators have been used to trace changes in living conditions since 1984 in West Germany and since 1990 in East Germany. The "Household" SOEPmonitor contains figures on the home and living situation of households; the "Individual" SOEPmonitor covers the labor market, education, ...
02.02.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 02/2013. The significance of the manufacturing sector for the economies of both the European Union and the euro area has declined dramatically over the past ten years. However, development varied between the individual member states, which is particularly evident in a comparison between France and Germany. The manufacturing industry in Germany was able to maintain ...
01.02.2013
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Economic Bulletin
"Germany Needs Stronger Wage": Five Questions to Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 02/2013
01.02.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Georg Erber and Harald Hagemann in: DIW Economic Bulletin 02/2013The German economy recovered more rapidly than the majority of other developed countries from the severe slump that the global economic and financial crisis brought in its wake. Weak demand in the euro area was offset by robust growth in exports to countries outside the region. The German economy's strong competitive position ...
01.02.2013
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Press Release
Young people tend to smoke more, do less sport, and are more frequently overweight, the lower their mother's school-leaving qualifications. This has been shown by a study conducted by DIW Berlin using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). At least some of these health-related differences can be causally attributed to the mother's education. Social differences are already reflected ...
30.01.2013
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Press Release
For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. This is not a specifically German phenomenon. Based on a ...
23.01.2013
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Between August and September 2012, the American political magazine, Foreign Policy asked a total of 62 well-known US economists what they saw as the main reason for the slow recovery of the labor market. The most common response was "uncertainty" (31 percent). But what exactly does this term mean? And why might it play such an important role? A recent study conducted by DIW Berlin on the ...
23.01.2013