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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
23.05.2016| Alessandro Gavazza (LSE)
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Report
The data from the 2014 survey of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) have now been released and can be ordered by SOEP users. Up to now, they have been provided through a secure website. The current data distribution contains the data from the 2011, 2012, and 2013 innovative modules.
The SOEP-IS contained the following innovative modules in 2011:
Implicit Association Test (IAT) and corresponding ...
25.04.2016
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Interview
Katharina Mahne is a Sociologist and Director of the German Aging Survey (DEAS) at the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) in Berlin. She began her research career as a student assistant in the SOEP 10 years ago. Since then, she has been doing research on social relationships within families. Her current focus is on the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. She is one of the few researchers ...
25.04.2016
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Personnel news
Alexander Zerrahn, department of Energy, Transportation, Environment, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title “Essays in Electricity Economics - Empirical, Numerical and Theoretical Perspectives on Renewable Energy and Cross-Border Integration" was supervised by Christian von Hirschhausen (DIW, Technische Universität ...
25.04.2016
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This paper investigates the impact of extending disposable cash income of children by the monetary value of private and public childcare provision on economic inequality in Germany between 2009 and 2012. It takes account of the multidimensionality of children's well-being and access to economic resources. Combining survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and Familien in Deutschland (FiD)...
27.04.2016| Maximilian Stockhausen (Freie Universität Berlin)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Flaviana Palmisano is a lecturer at the University of Rome LUMSA. Before, she was FNR-Marie Curie fellow at the University of Luxembourg (2014-2016). She holds a PhD in Economics of the University of Bari (2008-2011). Her research interests are in the field of distributional analysis, with a focus on the measurement of the dynamics of poverty, inequality, income mobility and equality of...
26.05.2016| Flaviana Palmisano (University of Rome)
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Externe Working Papers
This paper sets out a framework for the analysis of public investments, tangible and intangible, at the level of detail needed for the economic analysis of impacts of public policies influencing economic growth. To do this, we broaden the concept of capital in the public sector from that which is mostly tangible (e.g. physical infrastructure) to that which also includes intangibles and long-lasting ...
Valencia:
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas,
2016,
39 S.
(SPINTAN Working Paper Series ; 9)
| Erika Schulz, Laura Beckmann
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Externe Working Papers
Organizational capital (OC) is important for economic performance. To determine the impact on the economic development, it is necessary to measure investment in OC just as well as depreciation of OC. Here we take closer look on the team value as part of the intangibles in the field of organisation capital.
Valencia:
Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas,
2016,
30 S.
(European Policy Brief SPINTAN ; 3)
| Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig
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Press Release
Current corporate investment levels hardly surpass pre-crisis levels – Experts Commission’s recommendations for strengthening investment still relevant – additional tax incentives should be considered
Businesses in Germany are still investing too little in their manufacturing facilities. As a new study conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) reveals, ...
22.04.2016
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Report
To begin the process of appointing the next generation of leadership for the SOEP, a job advertisement for the position of Director of the SOEP has been published. The new SOEP Director should, if possible, begin on October 1, 2017.
21.04.2016