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Externe Working Papers
This paper investigates the gender wealth gap using wealth recorded in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ranking women and men by their individual wealth reveals that the average gender wealth gap is driven by the large gap in the top tail. We find that the gender wealth gap widens during working age and closes during retirement. This is associated with men receiving higher inheritances and inter-vivos ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2023,
29 S.
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schroeder
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Externe Working Papers
By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20 percent of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical lifecycle model of wealth accumulation, this paper examines the extent to which regional differences in destruction can explain differences in wealth today” – at the beginning of the 21st century. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2023,
80 S.
| Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schroeder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We analyse variation in firm performance as a function of the international diversification of ICT imports by firms. Drawing on administrative data from 2010 and 2014 on nearly 4000 German manufacturing firms, we find that firms with ICT sourcing that is diversified across multiple countries perform better than similar, less-diversified firms. This finding holds true for two performance metrics (value ...
In:
Economics of Innovation and New Technology
34 (2025), 1, S. 94-116
| Alexander Schiersch, Irene Bertschek, Thomas Niebel
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Externe Working Papers
Background The first wave of the Corona Monitoring Nationwide (RKI-SOEP) Study drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel proved a low pre-vaccine SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the German adult population of 2.1%.Methods In this second wave of the study (RKI-SOEP-2, November 2021-March 2022), we used combined serological and self-reported data on infection and vaccination to estimate the prevalence ...
Berlin:
RKI,
2023,
21 S.
(medRxiv Preprint)
| Elisabetta Mercuri, Lorenz Schmid, Christina Poethko-Müller, Martin Schlaud, Cânâ Kußmaul, Ana Ordonez-Cruickshank, Sebastian Haller, Ute Rexroth, Osamah Hamouda, Lars Schaade, Lothar H. Wieler, Antje Gößwald, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Markus M. Grabka, Sabine Zinn, Hans W. Steinhauer (et al.)
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Externe Working Papers
While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is scarce to non-existent. This is problematic because both theoretical and empirical evidence show that the position in the wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge. We measure ex-ante IOp in net wealth for Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2023,
54 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 16488)
| Daniel Graeber, Viola Hilbert, Johannes König
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Personnel news
* The 5th of January 1953 in Kelsterbach – † The 28th of January 2024 in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, the long-time director of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), passed away unexpectedly on January 28, 2024. Alongside the founding father of the SOEP, Hans-Jürgen Krupp, Gert G. Wagner was the face and intellectual stimulus for the development of the SOEP for decades, which is celebrating ...
02.02.2024
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Personnel news
* The 5th of January 1953 in Kelsterbach – † The 28th of January 2024 in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, the long-time director of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), passed away unexpectedly on January 28, 2024. Alongside the founding father of the SOEP, Hans-Jürgen Krupp, Gert G. Wagner was the face and intellectual stimulus for the development of the SOEP for decades, which is celebrating ...
02.02.2024
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Externe Monographien
Die Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Forschungspraxis in den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Um geeignete Daten zu finden, brauchen Forschende funktionierende Suchangebote. Eine übergreifende Suche nach Daten wird jedoch durch eine uneinheitliche oder fehlende semantische Erschließung erschwert, weil verschiedene Erhebungsprogramme jeweils eigene Terminologien ...
2023,
11 S.
| Andreas Daniel, Jan Goebel, Dagmar Kern, Daniel Klein, Antonia May, Fakhri Momeni, Jana Nebelin, Claudia Saalbach, Pascal Siegers, Knut Wenzig, Benjamin Zapilko
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DIW Discussion Papers 2082 / 2024
The transition of the steel sector to carbon neutrality requires significant investment. In this study, we aim to better understand the scale of investment required for a transition to hydrogen-based steelmaking and the ability of listed steelmakers to finance this investment. First, we analyze how capital expenditures are estimated in the academic literature and compare them with reported investment ...
2024| Alexandra Hüttel, Judith Lehner
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Newspaper coverage of firms’ CEOs is highly gendered. This presents a bias in itself but it might also have consequences for investments into the firm. In a survey experiment (N=tbd), we identify the causal impact of differential newspaper coverage for female and male CEOs on four outcomes: expected firm performance, investment into the firm, expected CEO ‘survival’, and expected performance in...
30.04.2024| Lavinia Kinne, Virginia Sondergeld