On January 4, Diana Schacht will join the SOEP team as a research associate in the field of empirical migration and integration research. Diana holds a Diplom degree as a social scientist and is currently completing her doctoral thesis on “Social networks of migrants and their children” at the University of Bamberg.
The project identifies and analyzes regulatory options for a decarbonized, internationally competitive and secure energy system. We concentrate on potential deployment paths for conventional power plants, energy use of electricity intensive manufacturing firms, interdependences and coupling of different energy sectors and international cooperation within the European “Energy Union”.
Carolin Stolpe recently received three honors for her outstanding work as a FAMS trainee in the SOEP. She received the Leibniz Award for Apprentices at the Annual Meeting of the Leibniz Association on November 26, 2015, by Stephan Weil, Minister-President of Lower Saxony and the President of the Leibniz Association, Matthias Kleiner. As the second-place winner of this award, Carolin will receive a ...
Compliance with principles of ethical research is a fundamental prerequisite for all scientific work. As a research institution, DIW Berlin has a responsibility to protect scholarly research and itself from falsifications and to take appropriate action against the abuse and manipulation of scholarly findings. The ombudsmen Jan Marcus and Johannes Geyer will introduce the principles of...
Social marginal cost pricing requires bottom-up calculations of social marginal costs for all circumstances. Because this is not practicable for policymaking, we suggest an approach to generalize available cost estimates and present results from this for two case studies. We conclude that in the peak period congestion costs are the most important externality of road use, and that accidents, wear and ...
The DIW Graduate Center offers a top-class economic doctoral program in Berlin, an exciting city for graduate studies. Every year, many young and promising economic researchers from around the world are attracted by our well-designed program, our internationally renowned faculty, and our partnerships with some of the best research institutions and universities in Germany.
Compared to the rest of Europe, Germany exhibits an especially high concentration of wealth. According to estimates based on a microsimulation model, a German wealth tax could generate an estimated ten to 20 billion euros per year in revenue—even with high tax allowances—and slightly reduce the inequality of income distribution, as well. Collection costs would range from four to eight percent in relation ...
