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Recently, the number of immigrants to Germany, especially from the eastern and southeastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 or 2007, has risen sharply. In addition, migration from southern Europe has regained importance. Many migrants have come to take up some training, the vast majority, however, for employment. These migration flows are having distinct effects on the recent development ...
05.12.2013
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There is an ongoing discussion about whether the German electricity market offers sufficient incentives for investment in power plants and for keeping them connected to the grid, thus ensuring sufficient security of supply. Recommendations for further securing power supply include payments, some of them comprehensive, to power plant operators - in addition to energy revenues and based on their generating ...
29.11.2013
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We would like to ask you to complete a short questionnaire. By doing so, you will help us continue improving the SOEP data and our services to the international SOEP user community.If you did not receive a personal invitation, please register at https://fragebogen.diw.de/limesurvey2/index.php/659595/lang-en(This link will be active only up to Dec. 20,2013)The entire survey will take only 10 ...
25.11.2013
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Today, Germany's citizens are happier on average than at any other point in time since reunification. Even though more than 20 years have passed, the average level of happiness in eastern Germany is still significantly lower than that in western Germany. This is demonstrated by the most recent long-term Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) data gathered by TNS Infratest Sozialforschung in collaboration ...
21.11.2013
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Following a decline last year and stagnation in 2013, the construction industry's economic prospects for 2014 are looking noticeably brighter. DIW Berlin expects more than six percent nominal growth for construction in Germany, or four percent in real terms, primarily as a result of persistently brisk residential construction activity and recovery in public-sector building. The core construction industry ...
20.11.2013
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According to current survey results the reconciliation of family and work is still very difficult for a lot of parents. Most parents seek to share gainful employment and family duties more equally. Yet, financial incentives often favor the conventional single- or one and a halfearner model. In a study commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Hans Bockler Foundation DIW Berlin has investigated ...
13.11.2013
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OPEC countries has benefited from the increase of oil prices in the past few years. Except the worldwide crisis 2008/2009 the demand of oil from OPEC countries was high stabilizing the cohesion within the OPEC. However, this might change in the future: Worldwide demand may not grow as fast as assumed in actual projections due to reduction of subsidies for oil consumption or other demand restricting ...
06.11.2013
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Several interesting SOEP Survey Papers have been published recently. One of the most noteworthy of these is the SOEP Scales Manual, which provides a brief theoretical background of every scale used in the SOEP and a description of its development. The manual also includes the most important references from the literature as well as the wording of all of the items and answer options in the scales ...
04.11.2013
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Since the beginning of the crisis, large Target 2 positions developed on the balance sheets of the national central banks in the euro area. At the height of this development in the middle of 2012, the German Bundesbank disclosed Target-claims vis-à-vis the ECB amounting to around 750 billion euro. Since then, the balances decreased and currently amount to 570 billion Euro, which is still considerably ...
30.10.2013
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We are pleased to announce the 10th anniversary "International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium", March 20-21, 2014, Delmenhorst (Bremen), Germany.The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) to present empirical research ...
29.10.2013
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Friederike Lenel has been granted a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) from October 2013 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates her on her success!
25.10.2013
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Nathan Fiala, Ph.D. was selected to participate and present at the Falling Walls Lab and the Falling Walls Conference on November 8./9. Falling Walls is a unique international platform for leaders in science, business, politics, the arts, and the society and aims at finding an answer to the question “Which walls will fall next?" This question is inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall in ...
21.10.2013
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Project Group Joint Economic Forecast
Completed in Essen on 15 October 2013
Economy Picking Up – Put Budget Surpluses To Good Use
The German economy is on the verge of an upturn driven by domestic demand. The improving global economic climate and decreasing uncertainty are fuelling investment. Private consumption is benefitting from favourable employment and income prospects. Real gross domestic ...
17.10.2013
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The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past three decades. The data also indicate ...
17.10.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by C. Katharina Spieß in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2013. Investments in education are of great importance for the competitiveness of the German economy. In particular, early childhood education programs promise high returns - because children can benefit from them even years later and find it easier to acquire new skills. These are the results of research in the field of the economics of education ...
12.10.2013
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2013"The Quality of Early Education and Care Must Be Improved". Five Questions to C. Katharina Spieß
12.10.2013
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Economic Bulletin
by Uwe Kunert and Heike Link in: DIW Economic Bulletin 10/2013.A quantitatively and qualitatively efficient transport infrastructure is a fundamental requirement for the success and prosperity of the German economy, with its high degree of labor division, its many exchange relationships, and its central European location. The transport infrastructure represents a considerable economic capital stock ...
12.10.2013
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Kati Schindler, Acting Head of the Department of Development and Security, was accepted into the Mentoring Programme of the Leibniz Association. The programme aims at supporting female researchers in obtaining a professorship or a leading position in the private sector or public administration. Specifically, the mentoring programme helps to strengthen academic networks and acquire soft skills.
10.10.2013
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The newly founded Development Economics Network Berlin (DENeB) organizes the new Seminar Series for Development Economics in Berlin. The seminar takes place every second Thursday at 5:30 pm at DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Room, 5th floor). The first meeting will take place on 24 October 2013 with Rajshri Jayaraman (ESMT) presenting her current work. All information on the seminar series and the current ...
10.10.2013
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The Chinese model for economic growth is further transforming. While the rise in output was heavily based on investment and export activities in recent decades, private consumption is expected to become a driver for growth in the period ahead. However, the conditions for higher consumer demand of private households are not optimal: The savings rate is high, particularly driven by the low level of social ...
09.10.2013