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The Impact of Private Hosting on the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany

Amid the Ukrainian displacement crisis, private hosting of refugees in Europe has surged, yet its impact on integration remains understudied. This research examines the short- to medium-term effects of private hosting on Ukrainian refugee integration in Germany. Using data from one of the largest non-profit platforms that matches private hosts with refugees, we compare the multidimensional integration ...

Barbara Stacherl has successfully defended her dissertation

On September 9, Barbara Stacherl successfully completed her dissertation entitled “Spatial Healthcare Access: Measurement, Health-Related Outcomes, and Healthcare Utilization” with summa cum laude at Bielefeld University. Barbara submitted and defended her dissertation as part of the Public Health doctoral program. The committee consisted of Prof. Odile Sauzet (primary supervisor, Bielefeld University), ...

Stock Market Participation, Work from Home, and Inequality

Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 - in Germany by about 25 %. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...

EU Power Market Reform Toward Locational Pricing: Rewarding Flexible Consumers for Resolving Transmission Constraints

The ongoing expansion of wind and solar electricity generation alongside increasing electrification is leading to a considerable strain on transmission capacities and grid bottlenecks in the EU. Coping with this challenge requires increasing system flexibility, e.g. by exploiting the potential for demand-side flexibility. However, in the current market design, demand-side flexibility responds to zonal ...

Working group socio-ecological transformation

As part of their research on socio-ecological transformation (SET), researchers from various departments at DIW Berlin are examining the risks, costs, and benefits of this transformation for private households, businesses, and government actors in Germany and Europe. Building on the institute's previous focus areas, DIW Berlin researchers are particularly interested in economic and social science issues ...

Register now for the “2nd Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies”

SOEP/DIW Berlin (together with ZBW, WZB, and RWI) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the "2nd Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies", taking place on 27 October 2025 at the Leibniz-Association, Berlin.  This year’s keynote will be delivered by Prof. Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University). The program is now available and highlights the growing role of ...

Joint Economic Forecast Autumn 2025: Fiscal stimulus masks structural weakness

The German economy is emerging from the trough and is likely to regain some momentum over the next two years. Following stagnation in the first half of the year, the Joint Economic Forecast project group predicts gross domestic product growth of 0.2 percent for the current year in its fall report. In the next two years, an expansionary fiscal policy is likely to accelerate economic growth noticeably ...

Different narratives on the effects of climate policy have a measurable impact on populist attitudes across various population groups

Fiscal Capacity of German Federal States: East-West Gap Narrows, but Rich-Poor Divide Grows

Even now, 35 years after German unification, the economic power and fiscal capacity of the eastern German federal states remain below average. In Germany’s system of fiscal federalism, this leads to substantial financial transfers, a fact that repeatedly triggers political debate. Thereby, the low tax revenue of the economically weak states is also a consequence of the tax system—and by no means a ...