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Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation

Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation on October 8, 2024 at the Technische Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization" was supervised by Professor Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin) and Professor Dr. Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen). Jonas was a PhD student at the Firms and ...

Weather-Related Disasters and Inflation in the Euro Area

This article investigates the impact of weather-related disasters on inflation in the euro area over the period 1996–2021. Using a panel structural vector autoregression approach, we explore whether weather-related disasters have a significant and persistent effect on inflation, as well as the role that demand-side and supply-side channels play as drivers of inflation. We also analyse the heterogeneous ...

Wealthy, Wealthier, Wealthiest – The Role of Inheritances and Parental Background for the Structure of the Wealth Distribution and Top Wealth

How is wealth created and reproduced within the German society? What role do inheritances and parental background play for top wealth holdings? SOEP-P is a new and worldwide unique sample of wealthy individuals in Germany. It comprises more than 1,100 millionaires (with the richest person having a net wealth of more than 130 million Euros) and is fully integrated into the general SOEP household...

Equal Waiting Times for All? Empirical Evidence for Elective Surgeries in the Austrian Public Healthcare System

Objectives This study analyses waiting times for elective surgeries and potential determinants, including supplementary private health insurance, visits in the operating physician's private practice and informal payments for faster treatment. Study design Retrospective patient questionnaire survey. Methods The survey was conducted in eleven Austrian rehabilitation centres in 2019. Data was analysed ...

Female entrepreneurs have an influence on the gender pay gaphaben Einfluss auf den Gender Pay Gap

First study of the relationship between the gender of entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap – Finnish data shows: wage gap in companies owned by women more than two percentage points lower than in companies owned by men – In many service industries, the gender pay gap is close to zero when companies are owned by women In companies owned by women, the earnings gap between female and male employees is ...

Measuring Historical Inequality in Germany

This article surveys the measurement of historical wealth and income inequality in Germany. We discuss the underlying data sources, the challenges they pose, and the opportunities they create. We also identify two promising avenues for future research. First, we argue that the geographic granularity of German historical statistics provides researchers with the opportunity to investigate the causes ...

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Carbon Pricing: Swift Introduction of a Climate Dividend Needed, Reduce at Higher Incomes

With the transition from the German national emissions trading system to the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS2) from 2027, final consumer prices for fossil motor and heating fuels are likely to rise significantly. This increase will affect low-income households more noticeably, as they spend a larger share of their income on energy than high-income households. Existing relief measures, such ...

Moral Bandwidth and Environmental Concerns During a Public Health Crisis: Evidence from Germany

Did the COVID-19 pandemic crowd out environmental concerns, as one might expect if ‘‘pools of worry’’ were finite or ‘‘moral bandwidth’’ was limited? We use Chancellor Angela Merkel’saddress to the German nation on 18 March 2020 as the threshold in a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) to evaluate the effects of an increase in COVID-based economic and health concerns on the climate and environmental ...

SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now

All registered data users can order the latest data immediately via our online order form.In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder Important news for v39: New samples: With the refreshment sample R and the migration sample M8b, two new samples were added to the SOEP data. Currently, there is only a preliminary weighting, as the marginal distributions for ...