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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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