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DIW Discussion Papers 1900 / 2020
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show that tuition fees increased degree completion among incumbent students. Investigating mechanisms, we do not ...
2020| Jan Bietenbeck, Jan Marcus, Felix Weinhardt
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Report
From April to June 2020, the SOEP conducted the survey “The Spread of the Coronavirus in Germany: Socio-Economic Factors and Consequences” (SOEP-CoV) in cooperation with the University of Bielefeld and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (for a description of the methodology in German, see: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7748 ). For SOEP-CoV, ...
17.09.2020
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Research Project
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is the largest and longest-running longitudinal survey of households in Germany. Every year as part of the annual SOEP survey, around 30,000 individuals in 15,000 households provide comprehensive data on their social and economic conditions. The survey data are used by researchers worldwide.
The project SOEP-Transfer (scientific project name: “Sharing knowledge and...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Concerns about inequality and questions of social justice and cohesion have re-entered the public arena and animate debate, provoked by the recent rapid increases in cross-sectional inequality. While much has been learnt from the literature on inequality, Deaton (2015) has outlined in his Nobel lecture several imperatives that are key to understanding inequalities and formulating welfare-enhancing...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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DIW Weekly Report 38 / 2020
Work and family life arrangements differed greatly between the east and west before German reunification in 1990. Since reunification, however, the employment rates of mothers with children requiring childcare have converged. This trend is accompanied by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours remain. Mothers in the east ...
2020| Denise Barth, Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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SOEP Annual Report
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Graduate Center
Job Market Candidates, Job Placements. Below you find an overview with recent graduates from our GC program that are available on the job market., Overview with some of the placements of previous students completing the program since 2016: Universities & Research Institutes:
University of Bologna
University of Bonn
University of Bristol
California Institute of Technology
University of East ...
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DIW Weekly Report 36 / 2020
Societal acceptance of the LGBTQI* people has greatly improved over the past decades in Germany and legal equal treatment on the labor market has been improved by the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG). However, about 30 percent of those who identify as LGBTQI* report experiencing discrimination in their work life, according to the results of a survey conducted by ...
2020| Lisa de Vries, Mirjam Fischer, David Kasprowski, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, David Richter, Zaza Zindel
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DIW Discussion Papers 1892 / 2020
This paper discusses the potential role of fossil natural gas (and other gases) in the process of the energy transformation in Europe on its way to complete decarbonization. Mainstream conventional wisdom has it that natural gas, perhaps in combination with other gases, should maintain an important role in the energy mix, first, as a “bridge fuel”, and then through a gradual transition toward decarbonized ...
2020| Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert, Fabian Praeger
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DIW Discussion Papers 1893 / 2020
Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We develop a working definition that may inform additional research and policy discussion and provide data on the demographic and labor market composition of these workers. In a three-step ...
2020| Francine D. Blau, Josefine Koebe, Pamela A. Meyerhofer