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Personnel news
Michaela Schmälzle joined the SOEP group this January to support in survey management of the SOEP-related study PIAAC-L. Michaela studied Sociology at the Universities of Konstanz and Mannheim. In her master’s thesis, she examined the relationship between different pathways to retirement and retirement adjustment in Germany. Her research interests include the development of social inequalities ...
15.01.2017
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Report
International Conference, Paris, September 1 and 2, 2017
Call for Papers
This conference seeks to contribute to the ongoing research into financial regulation, combining approaches by economists, legal experts, political scientists, geographers and historians. It aims to adopt an empirical approach from a comparative and historical perspective to characterize public authority and its relationship ...
09.01.2017
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Personnel news
In January 2017, the DIW Graduate Center is happy to welcome its new dean, Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D.. He is professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin with research interests on experimental economics, financial decision-making, game theory, decision theory, and microeconomics. He's currently teaching as visiting professor at Stanford University in the winter term 2016/17 and will return to ...
06.01.2017
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Report
Graduate Center Dean Helmut Lütkepohl retires after five very successful years as of January 1st. We would like to express our gratitude to Helmut for always being a great boss, supervisor, advisor and Dean, and wish him a wonderful retirement time!
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01.01.2017
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Report
The surveyed persons of the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample, integrated into SOEP-Core as Sample M, have been asked for their consent to link their data to administrative data.
The Research Data Center of the Insitute for Employment Research (FDZ IAB) now provides a data set with the linked administrative data (IAB-SOEP-MIG-ADIAB). Data access is possible via on-site use at the FDZ IAB and subsequently ...
23.12.2016
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Report
The data of our main study SOEP-Core covering the years 1984-2015 are ready to use.
Please place your order online if you haven't done so (only for registered data users).
All users are required to sign a data distribution contract or to register with an existing contract. Please find more information on this site or contact our SOEP-Hotline.
23.12.2016
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Economic Bulletin
A comprehensive, microdata-based analysis of the German tax system’s distributional effects in 2015 shows that the total tax burden from direct and indirect taxes is slightly progressive on higher income segments, but regressive in the lower income deciles. Income and corporate taxes are distinctly progressive. They impose hardly any burden on lower- and middle-income households, but the average ...
21.12.2016| Stefan Bach
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Interview
Mr. Bach, DIW Berlin analyzed the distribution effects of the German tax and social security contribution systems in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin. Which income group in Germany makes the highest contribution to income tax revenues?
High-income households generate most of the income tax. The wealthiest ten percent pays almost 60 percent of total tax revenue. On the other hand, the ...
21.12.2016
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Last week, 16 PhD graduates received their certificates. With a festive ceremony, the new PhDs were honored by DIW Berlin President Marcel Fratzscher and outgoing Graduate Center Dean Helmut Lütkepohl.
We wish each and every one much success with their future careers!
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20.12.2016
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Press Release
German economy’s growth rate will drop next year, primarily due to calendar effects – labor market expansion losing some momentum – numerous risks for the global economy
According to a new forecast by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the German economy’s upward trend will continue through 2017 and 2018 – even though the current global economy is ...
20.12.2016
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Interview
Mr. Fichtner, the German economy’s growth rates have been quite favorable lately. What will next year look like?
For 2017, we’re expecting a marked slowdown in the growth rate for Germany. However, this is mostly due to a statistical effect: 2017 will have fewer workdays (and thus lower growth) due to the fact that more holidays will fall on weekdays than in 2016. On top of that, we are ...
16.12.2016
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Report
29 European economists address an open letter to European lawmakers emphasizing the importance of designing the European Emission Trading Scheme such that the carbon price will be reflected in basic materials.
The production of basic materials like steel, cement, and aluminum accounts for a significant share of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions (16%). For Europe to achieve its Paris climate ...
15.12.2016
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Personnel news
Andreas Harasser, who worked at the department of Competition and Consumers until June 2015, has successfully defended his dissertation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.The dissertation with the title „Essays on Information Asymmetry and Vertical Relations“ was supervised by Georg Weizsäcker (DIW Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Pio Baake (DIW Berlin, Technische ...
12.12.2016
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Economic Bulletin
On January 1, 2017, the parental leave benefit will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. Although its implementation was hotly debated, it has become a widely accepted family policy measure. Its impact on parental labor supply, the division of labor between parents, fertility, and indicators that reflect the well-being of parents and children have been examined from a variety of perspectives. A global ...
09.12.2016| Mathias Huebener, Kai-Uwe Müller, C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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Interview
Mrs. Wrohlich, at the beginning of next year the parental leave benefit is turning ten. To what extent has it been able to strengthen the financial situation of young families?
The parental leave benefit has actually been able to increase the net income of families significantly in the year after their child was born. But the reform also left some people behind – in particular, families ...
09.12.2016
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Report
On Wednesday, December 14, after a short introduction by Marcel Fratzscher, World Bank Group economists Mario Negre and Christoph Lakner will present the latest report from the Poverty and Shared Prosperity series, “Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality,” with a focus on its key findings.
The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Kati ...
09.12.2016
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Economic Bulletin
A new representative survey of a total of 4,500 recently arrived refugees to Germany conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ), and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has generated an entirely new database for analyzing forced migration and the ...
07.12.2016| Jürgen Schupp
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Interview
Mr. Schupp, more than 2300 refugees above the age of 18 have been interviewed in a representative survey. Which countries do these refugees come from?
For the first time, we have drawn a representative picture of the influx of refugees to Germany between January 2013 and January 2016. The large majority of refugees in our sample—about 60 percent—came from Syria, but we also have ...
07.12.2016
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Economic Bulletin
Today’s teenagers spend their free time very differently than they did 15 years ago: engagement with IT and communications technologies is now their most significant leisure activity. Representative statistics based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) longitudinal study indicate that Internet and computer-based recreation plays a major role for more than 95 percent of all 17-yearolds ...
07.12.2016| Sandra Bohmann, Jürgen Schupp
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Report
On Tuesday, December 13, the 3rd DIW Europe Lecture will be held on “The Populist Turn in American Politics: Implications for Europe”. In this lecture Professor Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, will trace the populist turn in American politics from the late 19th century to the present day.
The DIW Europe Lecture ...
06.12.2016