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Interview
The interview with Prof. Karsten Neuhoff, Ph.D. is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 19/2015. It is available for download as pdf document.
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Picture: Daniel Bleyenberg / pixelio.de
06.05.2015
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Report
More than ever, Greece is in dire straits. Even after the Greek government underwent its fifth change since the start of the crisis, the Greek economy did not arrive at a path of sustainable growth. It has become clear that the economy will not achieve prosperity solely through the recommendations of the so-called Troika—now being renamed “the institutions”—which include cutting ...
30.04.2015
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Press Release
DIW Berlin expands empirical basis of G8 impact studies – data include Gymnasium graduation cohorts from 2002 to 2013 – Abitur graduation rates are not affected
Younger Gymnasium graduates, unaffected graduation rates, but more grade repetitions: These are the findings of a recent study conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), one of the leading economic research ...
29.04.2015
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Interview
The interview with Mathias Huebener is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 18/2015. It is available for download as pdf document.
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29.04.2015
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Interview
The interview with Wolf-Peter Schill is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 17/2015. It is available for Download as pdf-document.
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22.04.2015
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Press Release
Joint press release from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut)
Even if the use of electric road vehicles (EVs) were to increase significantly, the total annual power consumption of EV fleets would be small compared to overall power demand. However, uncontrolled charging, which involves the vehicle being fully recharged as ...
22.04.2015
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Remarks by Jason Furman, President Obama’s Chief EconomistFoto: DIW Berlin
On Monday, April 20, DIW Berlin and its president, Marcel Fratzscher, proudly hosted Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Obama’s Chief Economist, to discuss trade and free-trade agreements in a talk attended by about one hundred participants. The talk focused on both old and ...
21.04.2015
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Press Release
The German economy is experiencing a strong upturn driven by unexpected expansive impulses, especially the falling oil price and the sharp depreciation of the euro. Gross domestic product is expected to increase by 2.1 percent this year. The 68 percent projection interval ranges from 1.1 percent to 2.8 percent. Consumption is the driving force behind the upturn. The rest of the euro area is also expected ...
16.04.2015
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If you're a distributional or welfare economist seeking a post-doc position in an exciting research environment, the SOEP would like to meet you!
We offer an attractive academic environment for independent research in the social sciences, in particular economics, together with outstanding possibilities for using and designing household panel data.
For more information, please see here.
15.04.2015
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Press Release
Study conducted by DIW subsidiary DIW Econ examines whether copyright encourages innovation - technological development primarily responsible for the increasing number of new releases
Sales are going down, the number of new releases is going up: Although music industry revenues have plummeted by more than half since 2000, fresh content is still being released. Even in the film industry, the growth ...
15.04.2015
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Interview
The interview with Anselm Mattes is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 16/2015. It is available for Download as pdf-document.
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15.04.2015
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The Expert Commission appointed by Federal Minister of Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel proposes a 10-point plan to lay a new foundation for increasing investment, growth, and jobs in Germany. With this, both the existing investment opportunities in the public sector as well as the framework conditions for private investment should improve – including through an investment pact for municipalities, ...
13.04.2015
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We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 108, April 2015.
We have some interesting news about
SOEP-IS data distribution 2013
a note on regional and contextual data sources
SOEP questionnaire 2016
news from Ohio State University
some upcoming events, and some past conferences/workshops (e.g., on qualitative data and the SOEP)
and many more ...
We hope you'll ...
01.04.2015
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by Christian Westermeier and Markus M. Grabka
The analyses of wealth inequality based on survey data usually suffer from undercoverage of the upper percentiles of the very wealthy. Yet given this group’s substantial share of total net worth, it is of particular relevance. As no tax data are available in Germany, the largest fortunes can only be simulated using “rich lists.” For example, ...
01.04.2015
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Press Release
Few assets in comparison to the rest of the population—those living alone are particularly affectedSo-called “care households”—that is, households in which a person over the age of 60 and in need of long-term care resides—have similar household incomes to “non-care households,” in which no care-dependent person lives. But care-dependent individuals are more ...
01.04.2015
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Interview
The interview with Johannes Geyer is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 14/2015. It is available for Download as pdf-document.
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01.04.2015
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Report
SOEP Survey Committee members James Heckman and Janet Gornick finished their current appointment period at the end of 2014. We would like to again express our thanks to them for all of their much-appreciated work on behalf of the SOEP.
The Board of Trustees of DIW Berlin has formally appointed two new members in consultation with the DIW Executive Board and the SOEP Directors. Uwe Sunde and Susann ...
30.03.2015
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Personnel news
Simon Kühne recently won a 7,050 US dollar award from the Charles Cannell Fund in Survey Methodology for his research project "Attitude Inferences and Interviewer Effects: The Role of Interpersonal Perceptions in Face-to-Face Interviews." The project is part of Simon’s dissertation on "Determinants of Interviewer Effects in Face-to-Face Surveys" and is being supervised by Martin Kroh.
The ...
30.03.2015
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Personnel news
Anika Rasner has left the SOEP team. She took up her new position in the Federal Chancellery on March 1. She will be responsible for organizing and evaluating the Citizen Dialogs that Chancellor Merkel plans to hold.
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
Maximilian Priem started work in the SOEP in March. His responsibilities will include integrating the FID data into the data released to SOEP users. He just completed his MSc in Public Economics at the FU Berlin with an analysis of income trends in East and West Germany and is planning to start graduate studies in the fall.
28.03.2015