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Report
The SOEP Conference 2022 took place from June 30 to July 1, 2022 and was a great success. We were very happy to finally hold our bi-annual conference at DIW Berlin again after being postponed due to the pandemic. Events like this conference are an important part of scientific life and we are pleased that all participants were there to help make it a success.
Of the about 80 participants from 9 different ...
26.07.2022| Janina Britzke, Monika Wimmer
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Statement
Marcel Fratzscher, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), comments on the results of today’s meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB):
21.07.2022| Marcel Fratzscher
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
Which SOEP projects were launched in 2021? What have researchers found out with our data? What additional data do we offer to our users? And what is new since we started working with the fieldwork institute infas?
The report is available online free of charge. We would also be happy to send you a hard copy on request (soepmail@diw.de).
Please download here
15.07.2022| Janina Britzke, Monika Wimmer
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Publication
Which SOEP projects were launched in 2021? What have researchers found out with our data? What additional data do we offer to our users? And what is new since we started working with the fieldwork institute infas?
The report is available online free of charge. We would also be happy to send you a hard copy on request (soepmail@diw.de).
Please download here
15.07.2022| Janina Britzke, Monika Wimmer
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Publication
The expansion of natural gas infrastructure jeopardises energy transition, as natural gas is not a bridge technology towards a 100% renewable energy system as defined by the Paris Climate Agreement. This is the result of a study conducted by an interdisciplinary German research team and published in the journal Nature Energy on 4 July 2022. The researchers have examined the natural gas issue from five ...
04.07.2022| Claudia Kemfert
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DIW focus
The European Union has increased pressure on Russia by enacting a coal embargo. Following a transition period, Russian coal imports will end in August 2022. Recent studies show that Germany will be able to substitute Russian supplies with imports from other countries by summer 2022. However, with the looming threat of a Russian gas supply stop, plans must be developed to ensure security of supply....
01.07.2022
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Press Release
Survey of 100 medium-sized and large companies in Germany examines the integration of refugees into the labor market – Employing refugees improves employee satisfaction, company attractiveness, and business development – Potential for self-employment remains largely untapped among refugees
Employing refugees has made them more attractive as employers. This is reported by 80 percent of the companies ...
18.05.2022
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In the media
This text was originally published on BSE INSIGHTS.
On February 24, 2022, Russian forces began their first attacks in a war on Ukraine. Since then, more than 5 million refugees have left Ukraine, and among those, more than 90% fled into the EU (UNHCR, 2022). A recent survey of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior among 1,936 refugees arriving from Ukraine finds 92% of all respondents had been ...
21.04.2022| Jana Hamdan
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DIW focus
The Russian war on Ukraine and Germany’s dependence on Russian gas require a rethink of German energy supplies. While there is a heated debate about an immediate energy embargo, Russia could also stop its supplies at any time. To date, Germany has purchased around 55 percent of its natural gas from Russia. DIW Berlin has developed scenarios for how the German energy system could become...
13.04.2022
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Press Release
The German economy is steering through difficult waters and faces the highest inflation rates in decades. In their spring report, the leading German economic research institutes revise their outlook for this year significantly downward. The recovery from the COVID-19 crisis is slowing down as a result of the war in Ukraine, but remains on track. The institutes expect GDP to increase by 2.7 and 3.1 ...
13.04.2022
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Report
All registered data users can order the data using our online order form. In English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellung
In 2020 three new samples were added as part of the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees: A current refugee sample (Sample M6), a migration sample with migrants from Poland, Romania and Bulgaria (Sample M7) and ...
08.04.2022| SOEP Community Management
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In the media
The debate about making investments and the financial sector more sustainable often focuses on a narrow distinction between "green" and "brown" assets that does not match the situation in the real economy, writes Franziska Schütze from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). The sustainable finance expert says journalists need to read between the lines and make the many colours visible to ...
04.04.2022| Franziska Schütze
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Press Release
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) will enrich the science location Berlin. The founding partners now signed the partnership agreement for the new SHARE Berlin Institute. SHARE will in future be embedded in a collaboration of four leading research institutions: the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Charité ...
29.03.2022
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Publication
The department Energy, Transportation, Environment has published the report „Decarbonisation of energy“ jointly with the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. In the report, several options for the energy system in 2050 are discussed. The report was prepared for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and was presented to the Committee in March 2022. The report can be found online here: ...
28.03.2022
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Report
The practice dataset can be downloaded from our website and used without signing a data distribution contract. The data are provided under a CC-BY-SA license.The updated dataset uses original variables from SOEP-Core version 36 in longitudinal format. It contains a total of 15 variables covering the last four survey years, 2015-2019. In addition, the range of variables contained in the practice ...
15.03.2022
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Report
The call for papers on our SOEP2022 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online.
Conference date: June 30-July 1, 2022, in Berlin!
Please submit electronic versions of abstracts (up to 300 words) no later than FEB 9, 2022 to: soep2022@diw.de
Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract.The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "The ...
03.02.2022
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Publication
The SOEPnewsletter January 2022 in it's html version.
Enjoy reading
01.02.2022
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Nachrichten [Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt]
As COP26 drew to a close earlier this month, almost 200 nations agreed to “phase down” coal power in the coming years. How this is done, for coal and other fossil fuels, will have implications for individuals and communities that depend on these resources for their livelihoods.
The case study conducted by DIW Berlin focuses on Germany and the efforts it has undertaken to support ...
29.11.2021| Claudia Kemfert
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
At its meeting in early November 2021, the DIW Board of Trustees appointed five new members to the SOEP Survey Committee. In the coming years, they and the rest of the Survey Committee will advise the SOEP team on the content and methodology of the surveys, as well as on SOEP’s research and services.
Economist Conchita D’Ambrosio is a professor at the University of Luxembourg. She conducts ...
24.11.2021
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Personnel news
Congratulations to Adrian Santonja for receiving the doctoral scholarship from the German Environmental Foundation. Being one of Europe's largest foundations, it promotes innovative exemplary projects in the field of environmental protection. Overall up to 60 PhD scholars are funded per year for a period of 36 months.
24.11.2021