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Research Project
Conceptual and organizational planning and implementation of workshops on current financial and economic policy issues in close coordination with staff members at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF).
Current Project| Macroeconomics
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Research Project
The project will analyze how to deploy the first wave of near-zero emission primary steel plants, leading to the point where industry perceptions shift to considering late mover risk in the transition more dangerous than first-mover risk. We will identify unilateral policy approaches that avoid putting clean primary steel producers at a disadvantage in international trade, and plurilateral...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The Future Power Market Platform brings together consists of experts and decision-makers from both public and private sector across Europe who are prioritizing market design and regulatory mechanism development in their working agendas.
You can find more information on the events and reports here
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
This project investigates the underlying causes of gender gaps in the labor market, emphasizing skill mismatches, task divisions, social norms, and implicit gender biases.
By employing quasi- and survey-experimental methods with data from Germany and OECD countries, the research examines policies like parental leave and public child care.
It explores the effects of these factors on skill...
Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics
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Research Project
Gender inequality remains a pressing issue in our society. Women are underrepresented in many decision-making positions and the gender pay gap remains at 16%. Whether or how language contributes to forming and transporting gender stereotypes has sparked intense scientific and public debate. In German, masculine role nouns are still often used in a generic sense to address people of unknown gender ...
Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics
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Research Project
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin and the University of Bremen are working together to develop a household panel study on the topic of social cohesion. The survey is being conducted by the infas Institute for Applied Social Science under the name “Zusammenleben in Deutschland,” or “Living Together in Germany.”
The University of Bremen is taking part in the project as a participant in...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The aim of the project is the empirical investigation of the differential life expectancy of different socio-economic groups. In particular, it will be analyzed whether there are systematic differences in life expectancy according to occupation, industry or position in the occupation. The study will also work out the heterogeneous effects within the groups according to different individual...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
This research project examines the design and efficiency of electricity markets in which power is traded sequentially through forward and spot markets. Its empirical focus is on European electricity markets, where the growing share of renewable energy is changing firms’ incentives, trading strategies, and exposure to price risk.
The project investigates how renewable energy support schemes and...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and the Research Centre on Migration, Integration, and Asylum of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) are working together on a project to survey people seeking protection in Germany from political persecution and violent conflicts. The influx...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
In cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has carried out the largest expansion in the number of respondents with a migration background in its 30-year history. In early summer 2013, more than 2,500 households were interviewed by specially trained interviewers from the survey institute TNS Infratest Sozialforschung. These...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The report looks at the following pension reforms:
The “mother's pension” (Mütterrente I and II), which extends benefits for child-rearing periods for births prior to 1992 by two and a half years per child (one additional earnings point from the mother's pension I and a further 0.5 earnings points from the mother's pension II).
The basic pension (Grundrente). The aim is to...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The project “Implementing the local heating transition: Future initiatives for the energy transition in Lüneburg (Wärme-ZIEL)” investigates feasible strategies to support the shift toward a climate-neutral heat supply in the Lüneburg region. The goal is to accelerate the implementation of municipal heat plans, gather feedback from local stakeholders, and develop recommendations and strategies that...
Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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Research Project
The objective of HouseInc is to analyse interlinked dimensions of housing inequalities in the context of marginalized communities. HouseInc will empirically examine economic, social, and ecological drivers and assess impacts of various indicators on housing inequality to derive policy recommendations that foster the adoption of effective measures addressing housing inequality across Europe....
Current Project| Macroeconomics
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Research Project
While wealth and income inequality are on the rise in many countries over the past decades, European Welfare States have come under pressure in a context of persistent economic difficulties and increasing globalization. Adopting a Franco-German perspective, EQUITAX aims to contribute to this issue by shedding light on the most effective tax-and-transfer instruments to fight income and wealth...
Current Project| Macroeconomics
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Research Project
The research group is concerned with time policy as one element of social policy. Time policy allows individuals and households to cope with time conflicts during critical phases in their employment biographies. Time policy includes measures and benefits that enable employees to use their time resources according to their preferences, irrespective of their income. We identify critical phases in...
Current Project| Public Economics
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Research Project
KonsortSWD - Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational and Economic Sciences in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)Researchers in the social, behavioral, educational, and economic sciences work with different types of data that are considered particularly sensitive due to legal or ethical restrictions and that were not originally collected for research purposes.
KonsortSWD...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Lab2 (Lab Square) is a hub for replicability and meta-science.
Its mission is to enhance the credibility of scientific findings in economics and to support the field in conducting collaborative research grounded in best scientific practices.
To achieve this, the project group engage in research, education, and knowledge transfer. These activities are carried out in close collaboration with a...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Promoting consumers’ rights, prosperity, and wellbeing are core values of the European Union. A wide array of laws, institutions, and regulations – which can be generally termed as consumer policies – aim at protecting consumers by ensuring adequate and truthful information in the marketplace as well as preventing firms from engaging in unfair and competition-impairing practices. While some of...
Current Project| Firms and Markets
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Research Project
The rapid loss of biodiversity and ongoing climate change are also the result of intensive agriculture. At the same time, they jeopardize agriculture and food security. The Leibniz Lab "Systemic Sustainability" brings together relevant knowledge in science and society on this fundamental challenge in order to promote the development and implementation of systemic solutions.
The current socio...
Current Project| Climate Policy
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Research Project
In cooperation with the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), SOEP data are used to monitor changes in living conditions over time both within and outside the regions undergoing structural change. The basis for this work is the Structural Development Act for Coal-Mining Regions (Strukturstärkungsgesetz Kohleregionen), which entered into force...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study