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Personnel news
Lukas Hoppe joined the SOEP team in mid-February to work on the project “Socio-Spatial Segregation in Germany: Scope and Trends,” which is financed by the BMAS in the framework of the government’s Poverty and Wealth Report. The project will analyze additional microm data in combination with SOEP data. In his dissertation at the Bremen International Graduate School for the Social Siences ...
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
Jan Goebel and Daniel D. Schnitzlein have been appointed by Federal Labor Minister Andrea Nahles to the Scientific Advisory Board for the German federal government’s Fifth Poverty and Wealth Report (Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung). Every four years, the German government submits a poverty and wealth report to the Bundestag. The report is produced under the oversight of the Federal ...
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
Peter Eibich left the SOEP on March 1. He is now working as a Senior Researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department for Population Health, University of Oxford (http://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/). The work there will focus initially on the ACHE study and the cost-effectiveness of knee and hip replacements.
28.03.2015
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Personnel news
The SOEP welcomes Sandra Bohmann, who joined the SOEP team in mid-February as a doctoral student. After completing a degree in European Business Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg and a BA in International Business Management at Oxford Brookes University, she shifted her focus slightly and completed an MA in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Her thesis was ...
28.03.2015
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Report
The selection process is currently underway for the next SOEPprize (official name: the VdF Best Publication Prize) for publications based on the SOEP data. Two years ago we made some changes in the decision-making process for the award, and now the final decision rests with the SOEP Survey Committee. The selection process is also no longer based solely on nominations but on all publications submitted ...
27.03.2015
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Report
The Economics of Education Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, one of the largest professional economics associations in Europe, awarded its 2013/14 Best Dissertation Prize in the Economics of Education for a dissertation that was based in large part on SOEP data. Pia Pinger received the prize for her dissertation “Essays on Skills, Health and Human Inequality” submitted to ...
27.03.2015
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Report
Elke Holst has been Research Director of Gender Studies at DIW Berlin since 2010; her position became part of the DIW Berlin Executive Board in 2012. According to the F.A.Z. ranking, Holst is considered one of Germany’s most influential economists. Elke Holst was a Senior Economist in the SOEP from 1990 to 2012. Her research in the SOEP focused primarily on gender gap on the labor market. We ...
27.03.2015
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Report
The fifth wave of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II), which used the SOEP questionnaire, surveyed 2,232 individuals in 1,536 households. The BASE-II sample was recruited successively and is now complete. There are five waves of BASE-II survey data available for 86 respondents; four waves for 51 respondents; three waves for 913 respondents; two waves for 1,028 respondents; and one wave for 1,236 respondents. ...
27.03.2015
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Report
Fieldwork for the 32nd wave of the SOEP survey is underway, and we would like to inform all our users—in particular longtime SOEP users—about our plans for survey content and special modules in 2016. In line with the “SOEP replication schedule”, which defines when and how often the various modules are repeated, we plan to repeat most of the in-depth questions from 2015 on introduction ...
27.03.2015
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Press Release
DIW Berlin examined the preconditions and probable effects of the quantitative easing in the euro area, and compared it to similar programs in other countries. The bottom line: Although there is heavy pressure on the ECB to take action, monetary policy should not remain isolated.According to the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the European Central Bank’s (ECB) asset purchase ...
25.03.2015
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Interview
The Interview with Prof. Dr. Kerstin Bernoth and Dr. Philipp König is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 13/2015. It is available for Download as pdf document.
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25.03.2015
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Report
The most common method of measuring subjective fear of crime in the general population has traditionally been through surveys. With the spread of digital technologies, however, data from social media and search engines could now help researchers learn more about people’s subjective perceptions of certain types of crime. The present article will show that although the analysis of data from social ...
25.03.2015
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Report
Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of unreported crime). No evidence was found to ...
25.03.2015
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Personnel news
Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and DICE), Annika Herr (DICE), and Moritz Suppliet (DICE) were awarded the 2015 Research Award of the German Association for Health Economics (dggö) for the best publication in health economic during 2014 for their paper "The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach applied to the German Market for Oral Antidiabetics" published in Health Economics. The ...
24.03.2015
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Interview
The interview with Prof. Dr. Martin Kroh is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 12/2015. It is available for Download as pdf-document
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23.03.2015
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Press Release
Although it has decreased slightly, the pay gap between women and men remains at a high level: In 2013, the gross salary of women employed full-time in leadership positions in the private sector was roughly 22 percent, or one-fifth, of the gross salary of men in such positions. In 2012, the so-called Gender Pay Gap stood at 24 percent; in 2002, it stood at 26 percent. These calculations are based on ...
20.03.2015
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Press Release
DIW economic experts are forecasting a growth of 2.2 percent in 2015, which should stand at 1.9 percent in 2016 - capacity utilization at nearly normal levels - foreign markets less important than before the crisis - primary growth driver is private consumption based on a good labor market - surpluses in public budgets remain high - international risks remain significant
The German economy, which ...
19.03.2015
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Interview
The interview with Dr. Ferdinand Fichtner is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2015. It is available for Download as pdf-document
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19.03.2015
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Personnel news
Alexander Eickelpasch, Research Associate of the Firms and Markets department, has become a member of the scientific advisory board for the research program "Interdisziplinärer Kompetenzaufbau" (interdisciplinary developing of competences) this year. The program is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for five years and enables young scientists to add new aspects to the ...
12.03.2015
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Report
To start the project 'Evaluating the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany (EVA-MIN)' a Summer School is organized at the University of Potsdam on September 21-24, 2015.
The aim of the summer school titled “Effects and Evaluation of Minimum Wages” is to discuss theoretical effects, evaluation approaches, and existing empirical evidence on minimum wages. Talented and interested ...
09.03.2015