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The Re-Emerging Privilege of Euro Area Membership

German Right-Wing Party AfD Finds More Support in Rural Areas with Aging Populations

This study examines in which setting the German political party Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) performed well in the 2017 parliamentary elections. The AfD’s popularity was relatively high in electoral districts with an above-average amount of craft businesses, a disproportionately high amount of older residents and workers in the manufacturing sector, and—applicable mainly ...

Mathias Hübener has successfully defended his dissertation

Mathias Hübener, who works at the department of Education and Family Research, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Essays on the Impact of Education and Family Policies on the Formation of Human Capital" was supervised by Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Regina ...

13th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP 2018)

The 13th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2018) was held in Berlin, July 19-20, 2018 at Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW).The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g., economics, demography, geography,...

EDDI18 – 10th Annual European DDI User Conference

EDDI18 is organized jointly by SOEP - The German Socio-Economic Panel, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and IDSC of IZA - International Data Service Center of the Institute for the Study of Labor. The conference will bring together DDI users and professionals from all over Europe and the world. Anyone interested in developing, applying, or using DDI is invited to attend and...

Income Inequality in Germany

Job Search with Subjective Wage Expectations

This paper analyzes how subjective expectations about wage opportunities influence the job search decision. We match data on subjective wage expectations with administrative employment records. The data reveal that unemployed individuals over-estimate their future net re-employment wage by 10% on average. In particular, the average individual does not anticipate that wage offers decline in value with ...

Nationale Energie- und Klimapläne nach der EU Governance-Verordnung: Wo steht der Prozess und was können die Pläne leisten?

Damit die EU ihre Klima- und Energieziele für 2030 erfüllt, hat die Europäische Kommission einen neuen Weg eingeschlagen: Alle Mitgliedstaaten sollen im Jahr 2018 umfassende Energie- und Klimapläne für die Dekade 2020 bis 2030 erarbeiten. Zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt sollen außerdem langfristige Dekarbonisierungsstrategien entwickelt werden. Die Gesetzesgrundlage...

Strengthening the Euro Area Architecture

The DIW Europe Lecture is a lecture series by leading policy-makers and academics on the future of Europe. The series aims at fostering and informing the debate on key European policy issues, and at bringing this debate to the heart of Germany's policy-making in Berlin.  Following an outstanding private sector career in which she had served as the first Chairwoman of the international law...

The Family Working-Time Model: Towards More Gender Equality in Work and Care

Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labour market behaviour of fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment and ...