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Interview
Ms. Mollerstrom, isn’t the idea that women are less competitive than men a cliché?
It is a cliché—but one that, on average, holds true. Of course, there are a lot of women who are very competitive and a lot of men who are not. But research clearly shows that on average, women are less inclined to compete against others than are men.
31.05.2017| Johanna Mollerstrom
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Report
Algorithms and online platforms – how much governmental intervention do we need?
The German Federal Cartel Office has initiated competition proceedings against Facebook, the EU commission is investigating Google, and the EU courts are assessing the legal treatment and possible regulation of the online platform Uber. The potential for the development of market power and its abuse in dynamic ...
30.05.2017
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Economic Bulletin
For many years, only better-paid workers benefited from Germany’s real wage increases. In contrast, dependent employees with lower hourly wages suffered substantial losses, while the low-wage sector expanded. Around 2010, these trends came to an end. Now all wage groups benefit from wage increases—even if those in the middle of the distribution lag somewhat behind. At the very least, this ...
24.05.2017| Karl Brenke, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Report
The IAB, BAMF, and SOEP invite researchers to submit proposal for questions to be added to the questionnaire in 2018—the third wave of the survey. If you would like to suggest any additional questions or items on refugees that are relevant to your current or future research and that would benefit from the longitudinal character of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, we would be happy ...
24.05.2017
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Interview
Mr. Kritikos, you’ve investigated the development of gross hourly wages in Germany. How have these wages developed since Germany’s reunification?
Immediately after reunification, there were substantial hourly wage increases, up through 1997 or 1998. After that, growth was minimal through 2004, followed by wage losses until 2010. Since 2010, after the financial crisis, wages started picking ...
24.05.2017| Alexander S. Kritikos
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Economic Bulletin
Completely eliminating the sharp rise in the tax rate for middle income households in Germany by changing personal income tax rates would mean estimated annual losses in tax revenue of 35 billion euros, or 1.1 percent of GDP. Taxpayers with high incomes would also benefit from this type of relief. The ten percent of the population with the highest income would have a relief of around 10.4 billion euros—over ...
18.05.2017| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei
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Interview
Mr. Bach, there is growing criticism that the middle income segments are suffering from a tax and social contribution burden that is too heavy. Does the middle class pay a disproportionately high amount of income tax?
Actually, the middle class has a relatively low income tax burden. This is because we use the basic personal exemption to shield the subsistence level from taxation, and a range of deductions ...
18.05.2017| Stefan Bach
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Report
DIW Women’s Finance Summit Structural Change in the Financial Sector – Women’s Perspectives
Watch the conference via livestream. May 23, 2017 9:30 a.m. Venue: Deutsche Bank Berlin, Unter den Linden 13/15, 10117 Berlin With: Christine Lagarde, Viviane Reding, Sylvie Matherat, Axel A. Weber, Douglas Flint, Sandie O’Connor, Peter Grauer, Brenda Trenowden, Sir Philip Hampton, Marcel ...
15.05.2017
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Economic Bulletin
Is it common for central banks to intervene in foreign exchange markets in order to influence exchange rates? And if so, is it effective? From a German perspective, these questions seem surprising, since the European Central Bank (ECB) does not intervene in foreign exchange markets—rather, it lets the exchange rates float freely. The situation is very different in the emerging countries: according ...
04.05.2017| Tobias Heidland, Lukas Menkhoff
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Interview
Mr. Menkhoff, foreign exchange market interventions (FX interventions) can be used to influence international exchange rates. Where and how frequently are FX interventions implemented?
At present, these interventions take place predominantly in emerging and developing countries. In the countries that use them, an intervention takes place almost one out of every three days. [...]
04.05.2017| Lukas Menkhoff
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Personnel news
Cortnie Anne Shupe has been granted a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates her on her success!
02.05.2017
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Economic Bulletin
The presence of refugees in Germany and the challenges their integration poses have preoccupied the public for the past two years. According to the latest data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), many more people in Germany were concerned about migration and xenophobia last year than in 2013. The additional representative results of the Barometer of Public Opinion on Refugees in Germany in 2016 and ...
28.04.2017| Philipp Eisnecker, Jannes Jacobsen, Jürgen Schupp
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Interview
Mr. Eisnecker, have the population’s concerns about refugee migration grown or declined?
We can conclusively say that in 2015 and 2016, the population was markedly more concerned about migration – and xenophobia as well. This statement is based on data from the Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP), a longitudinal survey, which has collected data on the population’s concerns on a range of ...
28.04.2017| Philipp Eisnecker
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Statement
Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German institute for economic research, on today's meeting of the ECB council:
27.04.2017| Marcel Fratzscher
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Report
The data from the 2015 survey of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) have now been released and can be ordered by SOEP users. The current data distribution contains the data from the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 innovative modules.
More information
26.04.2017
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Personnel news
Jan Stede has been granted a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw) from October 2017 on. The dean of the GC, Prof. Weizsäcker, congratulates him on his success!
25.04.2017
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Personnel news
Daniel Schnitzlein has been appointed to the advisory board of the Thailand Vietnam Socio-Economic Panel (www.tvsep.de). The TVSEP is a panel survey of households in Thailand and Vietnam (partly based on SOEP) and is managed from Hanover and Göttingen. The project will receive long-term financing for ten years (2015-2024) from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Daniel has also become a member ...
24.04.2017
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Personnel news
Andreas Franken will be supporting the SOEP team as of April 1 with data preparation, in particular, the preparation and documentation of SOEPlong. Andreas most recently worked as a research assistant at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Hanover, and prior to this at the University of Bamberg Chair of Sociology, where he also earned his degree in sociolo ...
24.04.2017
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Report
We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 115, April 2017.
We like to inform about
the data release of the 2015 SOEP-IS data,
news on SOEPinfo 2.0,
results of the SOEP User Survey,
new SOEP-Core documentation documents,
and many more.
20.04.2017
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Press Release
Press release of the project group "Gemeinschaftsdiagnose": German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), ifo Institute, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
12.04.2017