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Economic Bulletin
Targeted Support for New Photovoltaic Installations Requires Flexible and Regular AdjustmentsBy: Thilo Grau in: DIW Economic Bulletin 6/2012.Feed-in tariffs have proven to be an effective instrument in supporting renewable energies. As a result of the dynamic price trend of photovoltaics, the actual number of systems installed has repeatedly exceeded initial government targets. Therefore, the support ...
01.06.2012
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Economic Bulletin
The proposed Adjustment of Germany's Renewable Energy Law: a Critical AssessmentBy: Jochen Diekmann, Claudia Kemfert, Karsten Neuhoff in: DIW Economic Bulletin 6/2012.Support through the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) has led, in the past few years, to an unexpectedly wide expansion of systems for generating solar power (photovoltaics) because the system prices for photovoltaic (PV) systems ...
01.06.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"We should not overshoot the target." Six Questions to Jochen Diekmann
01.06.2012
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Tilman Brück attended the second general assembly of the Global Young Academy, which is the voice of young scientists around the world. Tilman is a co-founder of the GYA and had hosted the first general assembly at DIW in Berlin in early 2011. This year's assembly was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was supported by the German-South African year of science. Keynote speakers included Naledi ...
29.05.2012
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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
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For this year’s student intake, the Graduate Center received a record number of outstandingly high qualified applications. After a careful selection process of evaluating paper applications and conducting personal interviews, the selection committee agreed on 14 candidates to be accepted as new doctoral students into the Graduate Center. The program starts on 1 October 2012. We welcome all successful ...
16.05.2012
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Kati Schindler, Olaf de Groot and Uuriintuya Batsaikhan will be in West Mongolia from 20 May to 3 June to collect household panel data on Nomad Households for the research project "Coping with climate shocks in Mongolia: Vulnerability, Assets and Migration", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
15.05.2012
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Antje Kröger is working as a short-term consultant in survey design and statistics for the World Bank. She is supporting the World Bank to run a household and a firm survey in Hargeisa/Somaliland and will mostly work from Nairobi and Hargeisa. She will return to DIW Berlin this fall.Tilman Brück is among the 25 selected researchers to be part of the "Voice of researchers", ...
15.05.2012
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Economic Bulletin
Engineers in Germany: No Shortage in SightBy: Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2012.There is no let up in complaints about a potential lack of engineers in Germany. The Association of German Engineers (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, VDI) recently declared that because of the high average age of engineers working in Germany (50 to 51), there will soon be a huge demand for a new generation of engineers. ...
04.05.2012
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Economic Bulletin
"University Graduates Alone Meet Demand" Six Questions to Karl Brenke
04.05.2012
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Economic Bulletin
German Manufacturing Withstands the Rise of Emerging EconomiesBy: Martin Gornig and Alexander Schiersch in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2012.Between 2000 and 2009, China became the second largest industrialized nation, while manufacturing industries in other emerging and many Eastern European countries also experienced very strong growth. However, Germany was largely able to maintain its share of global ...
04.05.2012
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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/limesurvey/index.php?sid=15655&lang=en(This link will be active only up to May 31.)The entire survey will take only 10 ...
04.05.2012
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We're pleased to announce that our new SOEP Facebook page has gone online at: http://www.facebook.com/soepnet.de To get up-to-the-minute news on our activities, publications, TV interviews, SOEPpapers, conferences, and much more, please "like" us! If you have any ideas or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you at soepnet@diw.de.And don't forget to keep sending ...
02.05.2012
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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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The new SOEPnewsletter 96/April 2012 is publishedWe provide information about: *** SOEP Data- The SOEP 1984-2010 data (v 27) - 2012 SOEP User Survey- Bugfixes in SOEP 1984-2010 data (v27)- FiD data now available*** Comment: New Data on Families in Germany (FiD)
30.03.2012
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“Familien in Deutschland” (FiD) is a survey focusing on young families and families in challenging circumstances (low-income, single-parent, and large families). The FiD data are now available to the scientific community. The process of obtaining the data is fairly simple, although slightly more involved than for the SOEP data: additionally to the application form an abstract must be ...
30.03.2012
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Our SOEP colleague Thomas Siedler, Ph.D., was appointed to a W3 professorship at the University of Hamburg in the Department of Economics, focusing on microeconometrics. His position there begins April 1, 2012. He will remain closely associated with the SOEP and DIW Berlin and will continue collaborating on the BMBF-funded project BASE II (Berlin Aging Study II).
30.03.2012
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Personnel news
In 2012, Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl is the new Dean of the DIW Graduate Center.Helmut Lütkepohl is an internationally renowned econometrician and former professor at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2011 he has been voted the no. 1 German Economists Abroad in a ranking published by the newspaper Handelsblatt. While strengthing the GC's portfolio, Helmut Lütkepohl also ...
07.03.2012