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Press Release
A job loss has considerable negative consequences for those hit by unemployment. This is all the more relevant if families are affected. It not only relates to a family's financial situation: a mother losing her job can also impact on child development. A study conducted by DIW Berlin using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) shows that this is indeed the case as far as non-cognitive ...
14.08.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Daniel Schnitzlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 05/2013. For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. ...
13.05.2013
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 05/2013 "In Germany, Equal Opportunities Are Almost as Bad as in the US and Much Worse Than in Denmark". Nine Questions to Daniel Schnitzlein
13.05.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Marco Giesselmann, Richard Hilmer, Nico A. Siegel, Gert G. Wagner in: DIW Economic Bulletin 05/2013.Plenty of people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society’s prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete Kommission) ...
13.05.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Moritz Heß, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner in: DIW Economic Bulletin 04/2013. Politics and business often involve making risky or dangerous decisions whose outcomes can be predicted only with difficulty, if at all. As attitudes toward risks and dangers vary between individuals, it is reasonable that people with different attitudes are active in areas requiring ...
12.04.2013
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Press Release
The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in relation to respondents to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the survey year 2009 (2002 through 2012). ...
06.03.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Elke Holst and Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013. Despite the commitment that has been expressed by German companies to bringing more women into top management, at the end of 2012, only four percent of all seats on the executive boards and just under 13 percent on the supervisory boards of the top 200 companies in Germany were occupied by women. This corresponds to an increase of ...
01.03.2013
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Economic Bulletin
By: Elke Holst and Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013. In the German financial sector, the majority of employees are women, but it is still men who hold the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks, they were still vastly underrepresented at the end of 2012 (up 1 percentage point from the end of 2011). The story is similar ...
01.03.2013
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 03/2013 "Slight Rise in Number of Female Executives": Seven Questions to Elke Holst
01.03.2013
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Press Release
Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission) tasked with developing an alternative to the GDP for measuring growth, prosperity, and quality of life. This ...
01.03.2013
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Press Release
Young people tend to smoke more, do less sport, and are more frequently overweight, the lower their mother's school-leaving qualifications. This has been shown by a study conducted by DIW Berlin using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). At least some of these health-related differences can be causally attributed to the mother's education. Social differences are already reflected ...
30.01.2013
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Press Release
For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. This is not a specifically German phenomenon. Based on a ...
23.01.2013
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Press Release
Despite companies' commitment to more women in top-level management, at the end of 2012 only four percent of all seats on the executive boards and 12.9 percent on the supervisory boards of the top 200 companies in Germany were occupied by women. This corresponds to an increase of one percentage point on the previous year in both cases. Nevertheless, at the end of the year, the proportion of women ...
16.01.2013
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Report
In the financial sector, women represent the majority of employees, but it is still men who remain in the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks at the end of 2012, they are still very much underrepresented (up 1 percentage point from the end of 2011). The story is similar on the boards of the major insurance companies. The situation ...
16.01.2013
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Economic Bulletin
Has Income Inequality Spiked in Germany?By: Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 12/2012.New analyses of personal income distribution in Germany, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), show that real market income in private households rose significantly from 2005 to 2010. An increase in real disposable income was also observed. At the same ...
10.12.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"Slight Decline in Income Inequality in Western Germany" Five Questions to Markus Grabka
10.12.2012
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Report
Abstract:In Germany, those from affluent households have a significantly higher further life expectancy at the age of 65 than those with low incomes (males: 5 years, females: 3.5 years). The present analysis, which is based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), indicates that the lower life expectancy of women in low-income households is associated with psychological pressure caused by a ...
19.09.2012
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Report
Abstract: The present study investigates the extent to which cognitive abilities and personality traits are passed on from parents to their children during adolescence and young adulthood in Germany. Representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) indicate a higher level of intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities than of personality traits. The older children become, ...
18.07.2012
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Report
This year’s Lecture series of the Berlin Network of Labour Market Researchers (BeNA) took place on 23 and 24 April with support from the DIW Berlin and in particular the Socio-Economic Panel. The lecture was held by Professor Joseph Altonji (Yale University) on the topic „Dealing with Selection on Unobservables“. Most of the more than 70 participants came from Berlin (students, PhD-students, ...
07.06.2012
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Report
Die wichtigsten Methoden zur Analyse von Paneldaten stellt das neue Lehrbuch des SOEP-Forschers Marco Giesselmann und seines Co-Autoren Michael Windzio (Direktor EMPAS an der Universität Bremen) vor. Es ist das erste deutschsprachige Lehrbuch zu diesem Thema (Giesselmann, Marco/Windzio, Michael (2012): Regressionsmodelle zur Analyse von Paneldaten. Wiesbaden: Springer VS).Die Autoren präsentieren ...
21.05.2012