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Report
We happily announce that the doctoral students across all cohorts have elected their new 2016 Student’s Representatives. It was a tight race, with Marie LeMouel and Marica Valente coming out on top!
This is Marcia’s first term and Marie’s second – and we wish them all the best as they bring their keen sense of the issues important to the GC students, as well as continued good ...
10.02.2016
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Press Release
DIW Berlin experts estimate annual value of inheritances and gifts to be between 200 and 300 billion euros – high levels of inequality due to heavy concentration of wealth and largely tax-free transfers of big businesses – experts recommend reducing tax privileges and imposing limited tax rates for business transfers
In 2009, tax privileges for transfers of businesses were expanded; the ...
01.02.2016
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Report
by Stefan Bach and Andreas Thiemann
Compared to the rest of Europe, Germany exhibits an especially high concentration of wealth. According to estimates based on a microsimulation model, a German wealth tax could generate an estimated ten to 20 billion euros per year in revenue—even with high tax allowances—and slightly reduce the inequality of income distribution, as well. Collection ...
28.01.2016
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Interview
Dr. Bach, what is the real net worth of German households and how is this wealth distributed?
German households have a real net worth of 8.6 trillion euros. This massive wealth is very highly concentrated and is equivalent to around two and a half times the country’s GDP. We estimate that the richest one percent of the population own 32 percent of total assets and the wealthiest 0.1 percent ...
28.01.2016
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Report
by Elke Holst and Anja Kirsch
In 2015, the share of women in the top decision-making bodies of the financial sector increased once again but men remain in the overwhelming majority and thus continue to call the shots. At the end of 2015, women made up just under eight percent of executive board members of the 100 largest banks in Germany. The corresponding figure for the 59 largest insurance companies ...
21.01.2016
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Press Release
Researchers analyzed more than 500 companies – some are setting a good example, while others are lagging behind – vast majority of companies have yet to meet the 30-percent quota for women on supervisory boards
A balanced representation of women and men in Germany’s corporate leadership roles is still a long way off: At the end of 2015, the proportion of women on the executive boards ...
20.01.2016
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Interview
Dr. Holst, for ten years now, DIW Berlin has been studying the representation of women on corporate boards in the financial sector and the best-performing companies in Germany. To date, it has only been possible to very gradually achieve a slight increase in the low share of women. Did that change at all in 2015?
Progress is being made but only in small steps. There is still a long and difficult ...
20.01.2016
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Report
by Charlotte Bartels and Carsten Schröder
What share of total income in Germany is owned by the country’s top income earners and how has this share developed over the past decade? Answers to these questions can be found both in representative survey data such as the longitudinal Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and in administrative data on income taxation. After the statistics have been ...
14.01.2016
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Interview
Dr. Bartels, when is someone considered to be a top earner in Germany?
To answer this question, of course we first have to decide who we would like to be included in this group. We mainly define the top one percent as very high earners. This top one percent is made up of those with a gross annual income of 150,000 euros or more. [...]
The full interview with Charlotte Bartels is published ...
14.01.2016
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Report
On 11th of December 2015, seven junior scientists received their certificates at the 2015 Commencement Ceremony of the Graduate Center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). On hand to congratulate the students were DIW Berlin President Marcel Fratzscher, GC Dean Helmut Lütkepohl, and the new Chairman of the DIW Berlin Board of Trustees, Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber.Prof. Dr. Weber, ...
08.01.2016
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Personnel news
Roman Mendelevitch, a doctoral student of the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, was awarded the "Conference Presentation Award for Young Researchers" (Vortragsprämie) for his talk based on the paper "Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for Coal Export Taxes?”" at the EAERE Annual Conference 2015 in Helsinki.
The award is endowed by the German Bundesbank ...
06.01.2016
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Personnel news
Nils May, a doctoral student of the Climate Policy department, was awarded the "Conference Presentation Award for Young Researchers" (Vortragsprämie) for his talk based on his paper "The Impact of Wind Power Support Schemes on Technology Choices" at the EAERE Annual Conference 2015 in Helsinki.
The award is endowed by the German Bundesbank and was awarded by the Verein für Socialpolitik ...
06.01.2016
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Personnel news
Anja Bahr joined the SOEP in January, 2016, as a project coordinator. She will be providing organizational and administrative support for ongoing projects carried out in the SOEP with external funding. Anja Bahr is an administrative economist and worked previously in project administration in the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Halle (Saale) and most recently at the Berlin University of ...
04.01.2016
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Personnel news
On January 4, Diana Schacht will join the SOEP team as a research associate in the field of empirical migration and integration research. Diana holds a Diplom degree as a social scientist and is currently completing her doctoral thesis on “Social networks of migrants and their children” at the University of Bamberg.
01.01.2016
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Report
Carolin Stolpe recently received three honors for her outstanding work as a FAMS trainee in the SOEP. She received the Leibniz Award for Apprentices at the Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Association on November 26, 2015, by Stephan Weil, Minister-President of Lower Saxony and the President of the Leibniz Association, Matthias Kleiner. As the second-place winner of this award, Carolin will receive a ...
28.12.2015
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Report
Jürgen Schupp and Gert G. Wagner were appointed as members of the research group “Genetic and Social Causes of Life Chances” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld (2015 and 2016). Jürgen Schupp will spend a month-long research stay at the Center in Bielefeld in March 2016.
28.12.2015
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Personnel news
Jürgen Schupp was appointed to the Rat für Kulturelle Bildung (Council for Cultural Education) as an expert for the year 2016. The Rat für Kulturelle Bildung is an independent advisory board that analyzes the situation and quality of cultural education in Germany and makes recommendations based on exposés and studies for policy makers, researchers, and practical applications. ...
28.12.2015
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Interview
Matthias Pollmann-Schult has been a grant holder in the DFG’s Heisenberg Programme at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, since 2012. He was a student research assistant with the SOEP from 1997 to 2000. He is one of the few male sociologists doing research on fathers using the SOEP data. We talked to him about his findings on the new generation of “involved fathers,” on whether ...
28.12.2015
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Report
As reported in SOEPnewsletter 109, two international conferences organized by the SOEP team will be taking place in Berlin in Summer 2016.
Don’t miss the deadlines to submit your papers:
ESPE 30, June 15-18, 2015: deadline for submissions is February 1, 2016.More information at http://www.espe2016.de
SOEP 2016, June 22-23, 2016: deadline for submissions is February 29, 2016. More information ...
28.12.2015
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Report
New faces at the CNEF projectWe are pleased to introduce two new members of the OSU team. Laura Fumagalli (PhD economics University of Essex) is on temporary “loan” from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. At ISER Laura helps to impute missing data in Understanding Society. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. While at OSU, Laura ...
28.12.2015