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Personnel news
Markku Lanne, Professor of Economics at the University of Helsinki, is a GC guest researcher from January to May 2013. His research topics are: Noncausal and noninvertible time series, unit root and stationarity tests, near unit roots, structural vector autoregression, volatility modeling, empirical finance and nonlinear time series models.
21.01.2013
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Press Release
Despite companies' commitment to more women in top-level management, at the end of 2012 only four percent of all seats on the executive boards and 12.9 percent on the supervisory boards of the top 200 companies in Germany were occupied by women. This corresponds to an increase of one percentage point on the previous year in both cases. Nevertheless, at the end of the year, the proportion of women ...
16.01.2013
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Report
In the financial sector, women represent the majority of employees, but it is still men who remain in the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks at the end of 2012, they are still very much underrepresented (up 1 percentage point from the end of 2011). The story is similar on the boards of the major insurance companies. The situation ...
16.01.2013
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Press Release
The German economy has recently lost momentum but is anticipated to accelerate markedly in the course of 2013. On annual average, real GDP will increase by 0.9 percent; the corresponding figure for 2012 is expected to be 0.8 percent. During the course of 2013, however, expansion will accelerate noticeably. The German economy will grow slightly over two percent in 2014. The temporary economic weakness ...
09.01.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Kerstin Bernoth and Philipp Engler in: DIW Economic Bulletin 01/2013. With the crisis in the euro area, the issue of the institutional structure of the monetary union has gained in significance. One problem with regard to the longer-term stability of the euro area is the absence of mechanisms to adequately absorb asymmetric cyclical shocks in the individual member states. Such an instrument is ...
04.01.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Sebastian Dullien and Ferdinand Fichtner in: DIW Economic Bulletin 01/2013. A European transfer system could contribute to stabilization of the euro area by synchronizing business cycles in the monetary union, thus simplifying the common monetary policy. Such a system is proposed here in the form of a European unemployment insurance scheme. Compared to other forms of fiscal transfer systems, ...
04.01.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 01/2013. The European Monetary Union brought with it a standardization of monetary policy and a system of fixed exchange rates. This was accompanied by disincentive effects which, in turn, resulted in serious economic distortions. Proposals are currently being made - not only by DIW Berlin - as to how compensatory payment mechanisms could be used to better ...
04.01.2013
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Economic Bulletin
"Harmonizing Europe's Business Cycles at no Additional Cost": Six Questions to Ferdinand Fichtner
04.01.2013
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Report
The DIW Graduate Center opened its application procedure for the 2013 intake by early January. Graduates in economics and related sciences are welcome to submit their application documents until March 31th. Interviews will be held in late April and early May. Successful candidates start the program on October 1st. Application and Admission
03.01.2013
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Report
The SOEPnewsletter 99 / 2013 is ready for download.We inform about... · SOEP research infrastructure rated “excellent” in major independent evaluation (Comment) · Call for Nominations: Best SOEP Publication Price 2013 · Shipped: SOEP 1984–2011 data (v28) · SOEP v28 via SOEPremote · ...
21.12.2012
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Press Release
Wochenbericht 51-52/2012 Interview mit Erika Schulz
The rise in the number of old and very old persons, contingent on demographic factors, and the substantial reduction in the number of people of working age present a major challenge to the care industry. Although many of those needing care today are looked after by family members at home, they are increasingly reliant on the support of out-patient ...
20.12.2012
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Report
Especially for analytical and didactic applications in university teaching, the SOEP provides a simple practice dataset in panel format free of charge. This dataset in STATA format is based on the original SOEP data, but provides them in a significantly altered and fully anonymous form, which allows the practice dataset to be used independently of data distribution contracts and user agreements. The ...
19.12.2012
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Report
The generation of user-friendly variables for the first wave of the SOEP Innovation Sample in 2011 is currently underway. The data on the core questions in SOEP-IS are set for distribution in April 2013. Documentation on the instruments used in the sample can be found in the SOEP Survey Paper 110.The data will be provided to all users who have signed a standard SOEP data distribution contract.
19.12.2012
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In Spring 2013, an important expansion of the SOEP core samples will take place. For the third time in the history of the SOEP, a subsample will be added that consists solely of households with t least one household member of foreign origin. In the first survey wave of 1984, subsample B was launched: this sample of individuals from five southern European countries was obtained from public registry ...
19.12.2012
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Report
DIW Berlin’s application to continue collection of data for the study Familien in Deutschland (Families in Germany, FiD) in the year 2013 was approved by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth just a few weeks ago, enabling this “SOEP-related study“ to continue. For 2014, it is planned that all of the households in FiD will be added to the SOEP core study and that ...
19.12.2012
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Report
As of late November 2012, the data from “Familien in Deutschland” (Families in Germany, FiD) became available in version 2.1. Along with small improvements, the most important change in this version is the provision of combined weighting factors for FiD and SOEP data for the years 2010 and 2011. This allows FiD and SOEP to be used together longitudinally for the first time. Further information ...
19.12.2012
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Report
For almost 30 years, more than 20,000 people have been answering questions about their lives in Germany each year. Without these people's willingness to participate, our research would be impossible. In this recent short film (just released in English on Youtube), we introduce our study to potential respondents.
19.12.2012
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Report
What is a better measure for the accomplishment of a doctoral program than its graduates? In this spirit, the DIW Graduate Center doctoral program truly is a success story!As many as seven participants of the GC’s structured training and research program successfully defended their doctoral theses in 2012. Five of them attended this year’s celebratory graduation ceremony on Friday, 14 December ...
19.12.2012
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The SOEP team would like to draw your attention once more to the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) (see also SOEPnewsletter 95 / January 2012) and encourage you to also consider using this instrument when developing new empirical research questions. The SOEP-IS is suitable for short-term experiments, but primarily also for long-term surveys which are not possible in the core ...
13.12.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Has Income Inequality Spiked in Germany?By: Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 12/2012.New analyses of personal income distribution in Germany, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), show that real market income in private households rose significantly from 2005 to 2010. An increase in real disposable income was also observed. At the same ...
10.12.2012