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Economic Bulletin
Top-Level Management in Large Companies: Persistent Male-Dominated Structures Leave Little Room for WomenBy: Elke Holst, Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2012.The aim of recruiting more women into top-level management positions in business is attracting increasing interest among the general public and policy-makers alike. Calls for a quota for women and the widely publicized appointment ...
13.04.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"It Seems Only Sanctions Will Help": Six Questions to Elke Holst
13.04.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Passed Over for Promotions: Women Still Severely Underrepresented on Financial Sector BoardsBy: Elke Holst, Julia Schimeta in: DIW Economic Bulletin 4/2012.Opportunities to increase the proportion of female board members in Germany's financial sector were missed during post-crisis period of management shakeups. As of 2011, the proportion of women on executive boards was still as low as in previous ...
13.04.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Extent and Effects of Employees in Germany Forgoing Vacation TimeBy Daniel D. Schnitzlein in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent ...
03.02.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Add-On Premiums Increase Price Transparency : More Policy Holders Switch Health PlansBy Peter Eibich, Hendrik Schmitz, Nicolas R. Ziebarth in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2012.The German health care reform implemented in 2009 led to a considerable increase in price transparency within the statutory health insurance (SHI) (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) system and also made it more consumer-friendly ...
03.02.2012
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Report
PD Dr. Joachim R. FrickPhoto: DIW Berlin We mourn the loss of our colleague Joachim R. Frick. He died on the 16th of December 2011 at the age of 49. Joachim R. Frick was one of the directors of the internationally renowned Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. At the peak of his career, Joachim fell victim to an extremely virulent form of cancer. He fought bravely and valiantly and in the end found ...
19.12.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Social and Economic Characteristics of Financial and Blood Donors in Germanyby Eckhard Priller and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin Nr. 6/2011Surveys of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) have shown that Germans donated around 5.3 billion euros in 2009- right in the middle of the financial and economic crisis. The type and amount of donations made is well documented in Germany. ...
02.12.2011
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Economic Bulletin
"At Least in Germany People Get a Second Chance": Five Questions to Ingrid Tucci
04.11.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Success Despite Starting Out at a Disadvantage: What Helps Second-Generation Migrants in France and Germany?by Ingrid Tucci, Ariane Jossin, Carsten Keller, Olaf Groh-Samberg in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2011. The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young ...
04.11.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Child Care Choices in Western Germany Also Correlated with Mother's Personalityby Liv Bjerre, Frauke H. Peter, C. Katharina Spieß in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2011.The expansion of formal child care, particularly for children under the age of three, has resulted in more and more children from this age group attending day care facilities. This formal child care setting is frequently combined with ...
04.11.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Alliance `90/The Greens at the Crossroads : on Their Way to Becoming a Mainstream Party?by Martin Kroh, Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011The Greens have been riding high in the polls for months now. In Baden-Württemberg, a stronghold of the Christian-Democratic Party (CDU), Winfried Kretschmann became the first Green party candidate to be elected Minister-President of any German ...
02.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
"Germans Are Less Worried About Immigration." Six Questions to Ingrid Tucci in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011
02.09.2011
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Economic Bulletin
Who Can Become German? Xenophobia and Attitudes Towards Naturalization by Claudia Diehl, Ingrid Tucci in: DIW Economic Bulletin 3/2011Germans are opening up to the topic of immigration: According to the representative data of this report, less and less Germans without a migration background feel threatened by immigration. Also, their attitude towards naturalization has changed. The question "What ...
02.09.2011
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Press Release
Differing methods of calculation explain recent discrepancies between OECD/DIW Berlin poverty figures According to recent estimates by DIW Berlin, children and young adults were the group most severely affected by poverty in Germany in the year 2009. DIW Berlin rejects claims that it manipulated or withheld statistical data on poverty. “These accusations are false,” said Gert G. Wagner, ...
24.05.2011
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18.03.2011
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Personnel news
On February 11, the DIW Board of Trustees appointed Gert G. Wagner to serve as Chairman of the Executive Board for the next almost two years. Prof. Dr. Wagner's previous Deputy Heads, PD Dr. Joachim Frick and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp, will take over as Interim Heads of the SOEP during this period. Since Joachim Frick is currently ill, Jürgen Schupp will initially carry this responsibility ...
11.02.2011
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13.01.2011
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Personnel news
We are pleased to welcome a new member of the SOEP team: Anika Rasner will be working on the project LAW (Lebenswandel und Alterssicherung im Wandel, lifestyle and retirement provisions in changing times), financed by the VW Foundation, in which DIW Berlin is working together with the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) and the German Pension Insurance Fund. Her main activities will be to perform ...
21.12.2010
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Personnel news
Jens Ambrasat is currently working with the SOEP survey group for three months as a research associate. After completing his Magister in Philosophy, Sociology, and Economics, he worked from 2007 to 2010 as a research associate in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Jens Ambrasat worked in the SOEP previously, from June to October 2010, as a guest researcher. ...
21.12.2010