Vera Zipperer has been granted a scholarship from the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw) from June 2016 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates her on her success!
The sustainability of social security systems in many European countries is at risk due to population aging. Many suggestions to increase the share of working-age individuals deal with raising the age for full pension eligibility. A fundamental education reform in Germany extends the working life from the other side: A major education reform in Germany reduced the length of the academic high...
Andreas Thiemann, department of Public Economics, has successfully defended his dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title “Essays in Social Policy" was supervised by Peter Haan (DIW, Freie Universität Berlin) and Frank Fossen (Freie Universität Berlin). The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulates him on his success!
Professor Wagner, in the 1980s, sociologist Ulrich Beck posited in his book Risikogesellschaft (published in English as “Risk Society” in 1992) that working conditions would become increasingly complex. Employment subject to mandatory social security contributions would decline and precarious employment would increase. Has this happened? No, it hasn’t. Although precarious jobs have ...
Dear SOEP-users, In order to respond to many requests from our community for SOEP-training options, we have co-organized several Workshops in the upcoming months. Unfortunately, the international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis, based on SOEP data, to be held on June 22-24 in Ann Arbour at the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has been cancelled. Furthermore, we ...
BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
Recently women’s educational attainment and occupational status at the entry into the labour market increased toward closing the gap with men’s. Upon childbirth however, women’s career progression stagnates. Research has shown that while the differences in labour market success between men and women without children are minor, family formation seems to be a key process that...
Please note: this is a corrected version of the original press release. DIW Berlin study compares proportion of middle-class individuals over time in Germany and US - share declining in both countries - average income has dropped since 2000 The middle class in both the US and Germany is on the decline: according to a study conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the ...
