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Adrian Hille has successfully defended his dissertation

Adrian Hille, who joined the DIW Graduate Center in October 2011 and worked at the SOEP until February 2016, defended his dissertation “Developing skills through non-formal learning activities: four essays in the economics of education” on July 19, 2016, at Freie Universität Berlin (Advisors: C. Katharina Spieß, FU Berlin, and Silke Anger, University of Bamberg). His recent ...

SOEPnewsletter 112 published

We are happy to presen our recent SOEPnewsletter 112, August 2016. We like to inform about the national dialogue on well-being and quality of life the Call for Proposals for the next round of the SOEP Innovation Sample and top-up funding from the DFG, an update of the 2014 release of the SOEP Innovation Sample (soep.is.2014.1), the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, how it has been on the conferences ...

Brexit decision could cost the German economy 0.3 percentage points of growth in 2017

Brexit putting a strain on trade and dampening investment across the globe – German economy likely to be affected – uncertainty about exports – investment will be restrained, and both income and consumption will lose momentum Due to the Brexit decision, the German economy is expected to grow by 0.1 percentage points less this year and by 0.3 percentage points less next year than ...

IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany

The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and the Research Centre on Migration, Integration, and Asylum of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) are working together on a project to survey people seeking protection in Germany from political persecution and violent conflicts. The influx...

Refugee Families in Germany (Geflüchtete Familien in Deutschland, GeFam)

Conception, Implementation, Preparation, Register Linkage, Analysis, and Data Provision/Distribution of a Representative Sample of Refugee Families (GeFam) The survey topics cover the refugees’ living situations; their schooling, higher education, and vocational training; and their current occupational situations and social participation. Participation in the survey is voluntary. The study is...

Brexit Decision Puts Strain on German Economy

As a result of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, global economic output is likely to grow at a somewhat slower pace than anticipated. The decision will have consequences for the UK and for the euro area in particular; this is also confirmed by simulations produced by the National Institute Global Econometric Model (NiGEM). An expected deterioration of economic relations—especially between the UK ...

Labour Markets, Institutions and Inequality: Buildng Just Societies in the 21st Century: Janine Berg (ed.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015, 432pp....

Comparing Wealth - Data Quality of the HFCS

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro-countries around the year 2010 (first wave). The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several aspects point to potential methodological constraints regarding cross-country comparability. Therefore the aim ...

The Market Value of Energy Efficiency in Buildings and the Mode of Tenure

Concerns about global warming and growing scarcity of fossil fuels require substantial changes in energy consumption patterns and energy systems, as targeted by many countries around the world. One key element to achieve such transformation is to increase energy efficiency of the housing stock. In this context, it is frequently argued that private investments are too low in the light of the potential ...

Labour market responses to taxes: a structural approach

We propose to investigate the long-run impact of taxes on employment, working hours and wages, contrasting these key labour market outcomes in France and Germany. Few studies have considered these margins jointly when assessing tax incidence. In order to do so, we offer to develop a realistic equilibrium model that draws on the most recent contributions in the microeconomic job search literature....