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Tony Muhumuza will attend the 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics to be held on 23-29 April 2012 in Buch, Lake Ammer, near Munich, Germany. He has been selected as one of the participants, out of a large pool of highly qualified applicants.
21.02.2012
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The InterAcademy Panel (IAP - the global network of science academies) has appointed Tilman Brück to serve on its Advisory Group for the next IAP policy statement on population. The Advisory Group includes 14 international experts on population and development and is chaired by Professor Charles Godfray of the University of Oxford.Marc Vothknecht is in Jakarta from January to April 2012. He is ...
21.02.2012
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Another new project funded by the BMBF is entitled "A System of Economic Indicators to Measure Security and Security Provision in Germany" (WISIND). The project aims to measure the state of insecurity in Germany by creating an indicator that tracks security threats and security provision in the country as well as their effects on the economy over the years. It will run from March 2012 to ...
21.02.2012
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The Department of Development and Security started a new research project on how nomads cope with climate shocks in Western Mongolia. The project will run from February 2012 to December 2015 and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is led by Tilman Brück and Kati Schindler. A project website will be launched shortly.
21.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Extent and Effects of Employees in Germany Forgoing Vacation TimeBy Daniel D. Schnitzlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent ...
03.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Add-On Premiums Increase Price Transparency : More Policy Holders Switch Health PlansBy Peter Eibich, Hendrik Schmitz, Nicolas R. Ziebarth in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.The German health care reform implemented in 2009 led to a considerable increase in price transparency within the statutory health insurance (SHI) (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) system and also made it more consumer-friendly ...
03.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"Poor Products at the Expense of Pension Policy Holders": Six Questions to Kornelia Hagen
03.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Ten Years of the Riester Pension Scheme: No Reason to Celebrateby Kornelia Hagen, Axel Kleinlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.Since their introduction, the Riester pension scheme and the individual Riester products have become less beneficial to savers. Contracts concluded today will often lead to lower returns compared to contracts concluded in 2001. From a social perspective, meaning pension ...
03.02.2012
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After sending out the SOEP data version 27 (Data 1984-2010) in some datasets bugs have been reported.COGDJ, SOEPlong and some labels in the $HBRUTTO files are affected.For more information please see the site Known Bugs/Fixes. We provide fixes for download. Please contact our hotline soepmail@diw.de to get a personalized link.
20.01.2012
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Who wants to contribute may apply from now on!The research infrastructure SOEP at DIW Berlin establishes a longitudinal Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) for particularly innovative research projects. The SOEP-IS should be primarily available for methodical and thematic research that involves too much of a risk of high non-response rates for the long-term SOEP study. Any scientist who wants to contribute ...
20.01.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Germany's Construction Industry: Strong Growth Followed by Stagnationby Martin Gornig and Hendrik Hagedorn in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2012.2011 was one of the construction industry's strongest years of growth since German reunification. For the year as a whole, a nominal increase in construction volume of almost eight percent is expected. The price increase is forecast at over 2.5 percent. Real construction ...
09.01.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"We Need Clarity on Financing Conditions": Five Questions to Hendrik Hagedorn
09.01.2012
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Nachrichten
German Industry - a Tower of Strength? by Dorothea Lucke in: DIW Economic Bulletin Nr. 1/2012.By the summer of 2011, Germany industry was back at levels last achieved before the economic crisis, thanks to continuous growth in production since early 2009. The recovery was driven by strong domestic and foreign demand for German capital and intermediate goods. However, the Ifo Business Climate Index, ...
09.01.2012
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Personnel news
Alexander Schiersch, since 2009 researcher in the department Innovation, Manufacturing, Service, has successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Essays on efficiency and competition of German manufacturing firms“ at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (summa cum laude). His thesis was examined by the professors Alexander Kritikos, DIW Berlin und Universität Potsdam and ...
05.01.2012
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PD Dr. Joachim R. FrickPhoto: DIW Berlin We mourn the loss of our colleague Joachim R. Frick. He died on the 16th of December 2011 at the age of 49. Joachim R. Frick was one of the directors of the internationally renowned Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. At the peak of his career, Joachim fell victim to an extremely virulent form of cancer. He fought bravely and valiantly and in the end found ...
19.12.2011
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PD Dr. Joachim R. FrickPhoto: DIW Berlin We mourn the loss of our colleague Joachim R. Frick. He died on the 16th of December 2011 at the age of 49. Joachim R. Frick was one of the directors of the internationally renowned Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. At the peak of his career, Joachim fell victim to an extremely virulent form of cancer. He fought bravely and valiantly and in the end found ...
19.12.2011
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The publication of one of the articles by DIW energy expert Claudia Kemfert, co-authored with colleagues Martin Banse (TU Braunschweig) and Giovanni Sorda (RWTH Aachen) in the well renowned international field journal Energy Policy „An overview of biofuel policies across the world" has been ranked in December 2011 on rank 2 of the most read articles. The journal evaluates on a regular basis ...
06.12.2011
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The SOEP Survey Committee welcomes new member Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bärbel-Maria Kurth. She is the Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Reporting at the Robert Koch Institute, and serves on both the Supervisory Board and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Helmholz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig on appointment by the Federal Minister of Education ...
05.12.2011
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Veronika Waue started work in the SOEP group on December 1, 2011. She has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Economics and completed a doctoral thesis on optimization processes. She will be working as part of the SOEP data base team.
05.12.2011
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The SOEP welcomes trainees Florian Griese and Janine Napieraj, who began their training in Market and Social Research on November 1, 2011. The three-year traineeship will take place largely in the SOEP at DIW Berlin as well as at a vocational school in Berlin. Experts in Market and Social Research take on organizational tasks in planning internal and external data collection processes. They conduct ...
05.12.2011