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The new SOEPinfo not only contains documentation on SOEP-Core, but also on the new data format SOEPlong, our innovation panel SOEP-IS, 13 pretests from past years, and the Berlin Aging Study II (Base II). In the coming weeks and months we plan to activate further functions that will help users in their work with the data.A first prototype for the new basket and script generator has to be tested that ...
12.07.2014
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PIAAC-L stands for the extension of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)—which was conducted as a cross-sectional study in 24 European countries in 2011/12 on behalf of the OECD—now as a longitudinal study. PIAAC-L is a cooperation project between the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) at ...
11.07.2014
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Report
Since financing of the study Families in Germany (Familien in Deutschland, FiD) through the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs (BMFSFJ) has ended after four waves, the households surveyed in FiD will be included in the SOEP as of 2014. To justify this, the sensitivity of the combination of the samples was tested, comparing the distributions of selected variables in the SOEP with their distributions ...
11.07.2014
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Report
Background There is an increasing trend among surveys worldwide to connect respondent data with information from (governmental) administrative records. By using these linked data, researchers hope to validate, increase and specify their item sets and to lessen respondent burden. The SOEP has joined this promising development and seeks to connect the elaborated respondent data from the new SOEP Migration ...
11.07.2014
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In 2012, the SOEP again collected individual wealth information. The original data are stored in the file BCP. In the meantime, the generated wealth information has been updated to include wealth information from 2012. The files PWEALTH and HWEALTH are now available for download. If you are interested in obtaining these files, please contact Michaela Engelmann (soepmail@diw.de). The process of imputing ...
11.07.2014
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The innovative modules for the 2014 SOEP-IS data collection have now been selected. We will be able to include 16 out of a total of 41 proposals submitted. In the process of data collection for SOEP-IS 2014, we will also be purchasing 111 smart phones for further research on the well-being and life satisfaction of SOEP-IS respondents. For this, we will use the experience sampling method (ESM), a ...
11.07.2014
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Externe Monographien
Zur Bekämpfung des Klimawandels haben politische Entscheidungsträger auf europäischer, nationaler und regionaler Regierungsebene CO2-Reduktionsziele formuliert, die erhebliche Investitionen erfordern. Studien haben zahlreiche Marktbarrieren ermittelt, die diese Investitionen verhindern. Zur Überwindung dieser Barrieren wurden regulatorische, preis- und informationsbasierte Politikinstrumente implementiert. ...
Berlin:
TU Berlin,
2014,
X, 102 S.
| Anne Schopp
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In this paper, we derive a new effect of trade liberalization on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms, the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced by a reallocation effect resulting from an increase in the relative size of more productive firms. The relative importance of this reallocation effect and the scale effect well-known from the literature ...
In:
Review of International Economics
22 (2014), 2, S. 209-225
| Udo Kreickemeier, Philipp M. Richter
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On July 8, 2014 the team of the research project "RESOURCES - Resource Markets under Climate Constraints" together with participants of the project "Green Paradox" of PIK and ifo Institute organized a workshop on the topic "Modeling advances of resource markets in times of the fossil renaissance". Both projects are supported by the BMBF program "Economics of Climate ...
10.07.2014
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Press Release
One of the key tasks of this legislative period is to restructure the federal fiscal equalization system by 2020. There is a lot of money involved: in 2013, nearly 14 percent of ultimate tax revenue from the Länder was redistributed. The existing system has developed over time, is highly complex and convoluted. Thus, there is a high demand for modifications and fundamental adjustments would be ...
09.07.2014