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Our most recent data release (v34) mistakenly included the previous version of the migspell dataset rather than an updated version. Those interested can reorder this dataset by sending an e-mail to soepmail or calling the SOEPhotline.
27.05.2019| Philipp Kaminsky
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Press Release
An increased willingness to take risks, reciprocating friendliness, and a conviction that they are in control of their own lives lead to refugees gaining a foothold in Germany faster.
Refugees who are more willing to take risks, who tend to reciprocate friendliness, and who are more strongly convinced than others are that they are in control of their lives integrate into society faster. This ...
21.05.2019
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Personnel news
Theresa Entringer completed her doctorate with Prof. Gebauer at the University of Mannheim. Her dissertation, entitled “The Sociocultural Motives Perspective: Personality and the social motive for assimilation versus contrast”, investigates why and to what degree sociocultural contexts moderate the relationship between the self-concept and socially and individually relevant variables such ...
17.05.2019
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We are pleased to present our new SOEPtutorial series! SOEPtutorials are designed both for first-time users of the SOEP data and for users who would like a quick refresher to bring them back up to date. SOEPtutorials can be watched sequentially for a step-by-step introduction to working with the data, or individually for answers to specific questions.
SOEPtutorials at the DIW Mediathek or SOEP Yo ...
16.05.2019
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The SOEP-IS Release 2017 provides household data from 1998 to bis 2017 and the data from the innovative modules 2011 to 2016.
We will be happy to receive your order. Please use our online form.
More information on data access, sample development, innovative modules and the data files included you will find here.
16.05.2019
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Weekly Report
by Jan Philipp Fritsche and Patrick Christian Harms
Twenty years after the introduction of the euro, this Weekly Report uses an empirical analysis to assess the performance of monetary policy in the EMU founding states. It is often claimed that the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) cannot outperform its national predecessors, as the euro area countries experience different business ...
15.05.2019| Jan Philipp Fritsche
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Personnel news
Dominique Hansen joined the SOEP team in April. He is taking over the development of paneldata.org from Marcel Hebing with a focus on user experience, software quality, and data quality. In his studies of information science, he explored the quality of research software, reproducibility, open science, and good scientific practice.
13.05.2019
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Weekly Report
by Michael Ribers and Hannes Ullrich
Improving physicians’ prescription practices is a primary strategy for countering the rise in resistance to antibiotics. This would prevent physicians from incorrectly prescribing antibiotics, one of the main causes of antibiotic resistance. The increasing availability of medical data and methods of machine learning provide an opportunity to generate ...
07.05.2019| Michael Allan Ribers, Hannes Ullrich
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We have integrated the SOEPlong metadata into the SOEP-Core metadata on paneldata.org in the process of updating the information on the current wave of SOEP-Core (v34). We have also made a few additional improvements:
Improved presentation of topics. This makes it even easier to search for variables that are relevant to a particular research topic.
All questionnaires from 2016 and 2017 are now ...
06.05.2019
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Press Release
Around 20 DIW Berlin economists present solutions to European challenges - Uniform conditions can make the EU more resilient - Better incentive systems ensure more convergence - Europe must be united in countering global economic risks such as the US tariff dispute
Growth and progress towards equal living conditions across the European Union continues, but the crises of recent years have shown that ...
02.05.2019
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**Update**
Just published: a new journal article to describe and refer to the SOEP data.
Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Stefan Liebig, Martin Kroh, David Richter, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp. 2019. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Journal of Economics and Statistics 239(2), 345-60. doi: 10.1515/jbnst-2018-0022 ...
16.04.2019
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Weekly Report
by Jule Adriaans, Stefan Liebig and Juergen Schupp
Representative survey results have shown a stable approval rate for implementing unconditional basic income of between 45 and 52 percent in Germany since 2016/17. In European comparison, this approval rate is low. Younger, better educated persons, and those at risk of poverty support the concept of unconditional basic income in Germany. But ...
10.04.2019| Jule Adriaans, Stefan Liebig, Jürgen Schupp
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Personnel news
Hans Walter Steinhauer joined the SOEP team on April 1. He will be working in the Survey Methodology and Management research area on sampling, weighting, and imputation. He will support the research area by contributing his experience from work on the National Educational Panel (NEPS) and other studies of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). Hans holds a doctorate in survey statistics. ...
09.04.2019
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Personnel news
SOEP Director and DIW Executive Board Member Professor Stefan Liebig has been appointed Professor of Empirical Social Structure Analysis and Survey Methodology at FU Berlin, where he began work on April 1, 2019. His position is a joint professorship between FU Berlin and DIW Berlin.
Stefan Liebig conducts research on social inequality and social structure analysis with a focus on attitudes towards ...
07.04.2019
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Press Release
Press release of the project group "Gemeinschaftsdiagnose": German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association, ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich in cooperation with the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), ...
04.04.2019
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Weekly Report
by Markus M. Grabka and Carsten Schröder
The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on secondary employment, show that there were around nine ...
03.04.2019| Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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Weekly Report
by Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Michelle Harnisch and Niklas Isaak
The ecological tax reform that Germany implemented between 1999 and 2003 increased energy tax rates—especially on gasoline and diesel. Today, the ecological tax hikes yield an annual revenue of around 20 billion euros or 0.6 percent of GDP. The money is used to finance a higher federal grant to the public pension scheme. Calculations ...
28.03.2019| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei
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Australian Political Scientist Bruce Headey was not only one of the first SOEP data users—he was one of the first researchers in the world to discover the value of the SOEP for research on happiness. Headey is a Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in the University of Melbourne. He is a specialist in welfare and distributional issues and at the ...
22.03.2019
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Based on extensive positive feedback from our users, we have decided to send the SOEPnewsletter in a simple and easily readable HTML format from now on. We would be glad about your feedback.
It will then mainly receive links to the news and content available on our website.
Please visit the current SOEPnewsletter
in our common web design
as a one page pdf document
20.03.2019
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Press Release
According to DIW Berlin estimates, the German economy will continue its solid growth performance in 2019 and 2020. Overall, however, the economy is cooling noticeably and production capacity utilization is returning to normal. This is primarily due to the global economy weakening; it has been strained by China’s weakening economy, trade conflicts, and political uncertainties such as Brexit. The ...
14.03.2019