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Peer Reviews on the Fight against Terrorism a Hidden Success of EU Security Governance?

This paper provides a first study on use of professional peer reviews by the EU to strengthen the European fight against terrorism. The first part outlines two theoretical approaches to assessing the outcome effectiveness of such peer reviews, namely compliance and learning. Peer reviews can serve both ends and have been increasingly touted as an effective tool to address transnational threats. The ...

Daniel Schnitzlein new in the SOEP team

In August, Daniel Schnitzlein has begun a post-doc position at the SOEP, after completing his doctoral degree in Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg at the Chair of Regina Riphahn. At SOEP, he will work on generating user-friendly variables and analyzing dimensions of intergenerational mobility and inequality.

Parental Unemployment and Young People's Extreme Right-Wing Party Affinity: Evidence from Panel Data

The paper investigates the extent to which parental unemployment affects young people's far right-wing party affinity. Cross-sectional estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel show a positive relationship between growing up with unemployed parents and support for the extreme right. The paper uses differences in parental unemployment experience during childhood across siblings to investigate a ...

German R&D-intensive Industries : Value Added and Productivity Have Recovered Considerably After the Crisis

German R&D-intensive Industries : Value Added and Productivity Have Recovered Considerably After the Crisis by Heike Belitz, Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011No large industrialized nation is as strongly specialized in the production of R&D-intensive goods as Germany. In the crisis year 2009 these export-oriented industries had to pass a crucial test. The slump ...

"Leading position maintained". Six Questions for Alexander Schiersch

"Leading position maintained". Six Questions for Alexander Schiersch in in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011

Japan at the Crossroads - State Budget Remains the Achilles' Heel

Japan at the Crossroads - State Budget Remains the Achilles' Heelby Georg Erber, Mechthild Schrooten in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011The natural and nuclear disaster on the 11th of March 2011 pulled Japan into a renewed recession. Projected on the annual basis, the gross domestic product nosedived by 3.5% in the first quarter of 2011. Indeed the consequences of the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent ...

After the Crisis: German R&D-intensive Industries in a Good Position

After the Crisis: German R&D-intensive Industries in a Good Position by Heike Belitz, Marius Clemens, Martin Gornig, Florian Mölders, Alexander Schiersch, Dieter Schumacher in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011The strong reliance of the German economy on the industry sector has been a point of criticism for years now. Germany is too strongly focused on export, making it susceptible to crises and ...

Exports: Orientation Towards Emerging Markets

Exports: Orientation Towards Emerging Markets by Marius Clemens, Florian Mölders, Dieter Schumacher in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2011Nearly 60 percent of globally traded industrial goods are R&D-intensive. Two fifths are goods with very high research intensity (cutting-edge technology), while the remaining three fifths are goods with high research intensity (high-level technology). Up until ...

After the Crisis: German R&D-Intensive Industries in a Good Position

The strong reliance of the German economy on the industry sector has been a point of criticism for years now. Germany is too strongly focused on export, making it susceptible to crises and fluctuations in demand and exchange rates, the critics allege. A non-critical look at the numbers during the recent economic crisis seems to reaffirm these old concerns: Industrial productivity shrank significantly ...

Leading Position Maintained: Six Questions for Alexander Schiersch