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Helke Seitz and Tim Kaiser contributed with the topic "Promoting financial inclusion: New policies and technological innovations through digital finance" to the Young Economic Summit 2018! The topic was chosen by the Berlin International School Team II. The team tackled this topic by suggesting a digital platform which they called "Virgo". The idea of Virgo is to increase the accessibility ...
10.10.2018| Tim Kaiser, Helke Seitz
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Current Members
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The SOEP Survey Committee advises the SOEP on survey development and service provision. It consists of up to ten scholars who are appointed by the DIW Board of Trustees.
Since 2009, the SOEP has been evaluated regularly by the DIW Berlin Scientific Advisory Board. The focus of these evaluations is on the quality of research conducted by the SOEP team.
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The Knowledge Transfer division provides a wide variety of services that is directed at three main target groups: survey respondents, (potential) data users, and the general public. The many formats and activities ensure information and documentation as well as mutual exchange through dialogue with external stakeholders.
Communication with survey respondents is managed through the study ...
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The team of the Survey Methodology and Management division is responsible for all aspects of data collection, ranging from sampling design for the individual subsamples and questionnaire development to research on selectiveness and measurement error in the data. Experts from the team work closely with the SOEP Survey Committee and with infas - Institute for Applied Social Science, that conducts the ...
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Purpose and Structure
Mission Statement of the SOEP
History of the SOEP
In memoriam
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is an independent research-based infrastructure facility and one of the most important research data infrastructures in the field of social, economic and life sciences in Germany. It is part of the national “Roadmap for Research Infrastructures” of the German Federal Ministry of Research, ...
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Graduate Center
First Year
Winter Term
Summer Term
Second to Fifth Year
Graduate Center Program Structure
During winter term of the first year, doctoral students will take the following core courses:
Preparatory Math Course
The Preparatory Math Course provides the general background in mathematics and statistics necessary for the first year courses and for research related work in economics in general. ...
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-innovative industries. Entries into the large-scale industries, including the innovative part of manufacturing, ...
In:
Journal of Business Venturing
33 (2018), 6, S. 742-761
| Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections to the legislative and the executive branches. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for the two branches, evaluate the effects of overlaps, and account for general year effects. We find sizable effects on expenditures before legislative elections and even larger effects before ...
In:
Public Choice
177 82018), 1-2, S. 1-27
| Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger, Mustafa Yeter
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Non-refereed Articles
In this paper, we study the employment of workers from Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) EU Member States in Austria after the Eastern enlargement of the European Union. To prevent a sudden rush of immigrants into the labor market, Austria opted for a transition period during which immigration remained restricted. We will show that these restrictions had the anticipated effect; while ...
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Focus on European Economic Integration
(2018), 3, S. 113-122
| Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
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DIW Discussion Papers 1760 / 2018
This paper studies the extent to which working couples can insure one another against cyclical fluctuations in the labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment rate. For this purpose, I provide a dynamic life-cycle model of households that make joint savings and job search decisions in the presence of aggregate shocks. I ...
2018| Haomin Wang