Dr. Jürgen Schupp has accepted an invitation to take on a fellowship at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. While holding this position, he will be completing his project „About Measuring and Analyzing Trust, Fairness and Reciprocity”. Dr. Jürgen Schupp is a survey manager and Deputy Director of the Socio-Economic Panel’s (SOEP) longitudinal study at DIW Berlin.
On the occasion of the German-French Council of Ministers, today the Group of German-French Experts convened at the French Ministry of Economics and Finance in Paris. The Group, established in January 2003, is headed by Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann (President of the German Institute for Economic Research and Director of IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), Bonn) and Prof. Christian Stoffaës (President ...
In the course of 2004, world economic growth has decelerated. The growth momentum, however, remained substantial due to favorable financing conditions, high corporate profits and increasing asset prices which supported private demand in the global economy. Several factors have been responsible for the slowdown. The strong increase in commodity prices reduced purchasing power in the industrial countries. ...
At the annual meeting of the Association of German Economic Research Institutes (ARGE) on 14 April 2005, Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann, President of DIW Berlin and Director of the Research Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn was elected director. Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann succeeds Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar, who was not available for this office anymore
The dramatic labor market situation clearly shows that economic revival is still urgently needed in Germany. However, large-scale structural reforms cannot take place overnight. For this reason, Professors Michael Hüther (Institute for Economic Policy at the University of Cologne), Thomas Straubhaar (HWWA- Institute for Economic Research in Hamburg) and Klaus F. Zimmermann (German Institute for Economic ...