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  • Workshop

    16th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime

    The 16th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime will be held in Berlin at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) on September 26-27, 2025. The event will be jointly organized by Anna Bindler (DIW Berlin & University of Potsdam) and Christian Traxler (Hertie School). We aim to bring together researchers from both sides of the Atlantic to present and discuss their...

    26.09.2025| Paolo Pinotti, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
  • Berlin Macro Seminar

    Berlin Macro Seminar

    15.04.2025| Holger Strulik (University of Göttingen)
  • Infographic

    Poverty risk decreases - especially in eastern Germany and among single parents

    21.02.2025
  • Research Project

    GENELLI

    Gender inequality remains a pressing issue in our society. Women are underrepresented in many decision-making positions and the gender pay gap remains at 16%. Whether or how language contributes to forming and transporting gender stereotypes has sparked intense scientific and public debate. In German, masculine role nouns are still often used in a generic sense to address people of unknown gender ...

    Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics
  • Research Project

    Gender gaps in the labour market

    This project investigates the underlying causes of gender gaps in the labor market, emphasizing skill mismatches, task divisions, social norms, and implicit gender biases. By employing quasi- and survey-experimental methods with data from Germany and OECD countries, the research examines policies like parental leave and public child care. It explores the effects of these factors on skill...

    Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Lifting Women Up: Gender Quotas and the Advancement of Women on Corporate Boards

    Research Question/Issue The introduction of gender quotas on corporate boards can disrupt the status quo, resulting in externalities that affect women's advancement within the company. This study investigates whether boardroom quotas contribute to promoting women further up the corporate ladder and facilitate access to a broader spectrum of positions. Research Findings/Insights Using legislative changes ...

    In: Corporate Governance (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-08-24] | Anna Gibert, Alexandra Fedorets
  • DIW Weekly Report 5/6 / 2025

    Loneliness in Germany: Low-Income Earners at Highest Risk of Loneliness

    Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of loneliness (aloneness, isolation, exclusion) as well as regional differences and high-risk groups. The results ...

    2025| Theresa Entringer, Linda Kumrow, Barbara Stacherl
  • SOEPpapers 1217 / 2025

    The Diverging Trends of Male and Female Bottom Earnings in Germany

    Men at the bottom quintile of the German male earnings distribution had lower average earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. What explains these diverging trends and how did they translate into changes in net income? Data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) reveal that the drop in bottom male earnings is mostly due to a decrease in work ...

    2025| Eliana Coschignano, Robin Jessen
  • DIW Weekly Report 7/8 / 2025

    Income Distribution: Signs of a Trend Reversal In the Poverty Risk; Single Parents Less Frequently at Risk of Poverty

    Despite high inflation, the real gross hourly wages of employees grew by around 15 percent from 1995 to 2022. In particular, the lowest wage decile caught back up to all other deciles following a sharp drop in real wages. At the same time, the low-wage sector has shrunk by nearly five percentage points since 2007, and by even more in the east of Germany (14 percent). In 2022, 18.5 percent of employees ...

    2025| Markus M. Grabka
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Long-Term Implications of Destruction During the Second World War on Private Wealth in Germany

    By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20% of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical life-cycle model, this paper examines the persistent consequences of the war for individual wealth across generations. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the levels of wartime destruction in 1739 West German cities with micro data on individual ...

    In: Journal of Economic Growth 30 (2025), S. 161–235 | Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schröder
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