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Starting in January 2015, researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) research infrastructure at DIW Berlin will, together with colleagues from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and the University of Potsdam, be making data available for evaluation of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. They will not only be analyzing the data themselves but also providing them for ...
21.12.2014
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Follow up with the household questionnaires
We would first like to thank everyone who took time to take a critical look at our proposed deletions and changes in the different blocs of questions included in the individual questionnaire at periodic intervals. These changes are still under discussion so it is not too late for you to submit comments if you have not done so already. To involve our English ...
18.12.2014
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The SOEP data remain an interesting start point for research from many areas. The high number of presentations with SOEP data on national and international conferences show proof for that. On the following website you can see a composition of presentations held on basis of the SOEP data: Please click here
01.12.2014
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The SOEP questionnaires appear to have an almost insatiable thirst for knowledge. This can be seen, on the one hand, in the multidisciplinarity and topicality of the questionnaires, and, on the other hand, in the SOEP’s attempt to provide the same data over longer periods of time (longitudinally), which in turn makes it difficult to keep the questionnaires a reasonable length. When we started ...
27.10.2014
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We would like to remind you of the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) and encourage you to consider using this instrument in developing new empirical research questions. SOEP-IS is well suited to short-term experiments, but it is particularly useful for long-term surveys that are not possible in the framework of the core SOEP—whether because the instruments are not yet established ...
27.10.2014
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In summer 2014, the German government passed legislation to gradually introduce a mandatory minimum wage across all sectors. The revision of SOEP questionnaires reported on above offers the chance to include additional questions on this “natural experiment”. Our focus is on the SOEP questions about contractually stipulated working hours, paid working hours, the number of hours actually ...
27.10.2014
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Interview
John Haisken-DeNew is Professor of Economics and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He previously held a position as Professor of Economics and Chair in “Economic Policy: Competition Theory and Policy” at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, he came to Germany in 1988 first as a ...
27.10.2014
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We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 106, October 2014.
With a little delay, but with some interesting news about
SOEP data distribution soep.v30 (what's new in the data set, pre-order form)
our plans to revise our individual questionnaire
our offer to bring your research question into the SOEP Innovation Sample
new study distributions: FiD 4.0 and the IAB-SOEP ...
17.10.2014
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Doi: 10.5684/soep.iab-soep-mig.2013Both the RDC SOEP and the RDC of the IAB provide the data of the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample as a separate study in advance of the data distribution soep.v30.
The study contains the survey data as well as generated variables and the design weights. Unfortunately, the weighting factors are not currently available, but will be included in our main data distribution soep.v30. ...
17.10.2014
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To improve our SOEP user services, we are again conducting a user survey up to November 14. We are very interested in both the fresh viewpoints of new SOEP users and the insights of our longtime users. This year—among other subjects of the survey—we would like your opinions about our new metadata portal SOEPinfo v.2. If you have not yet participated in our online survey, we invite you to ...
17.10.2014
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It’s now even easier to order the data from the SOEP-related study “Familien in Deutschland” (FiD, Families in Germany), now available in its fourth wave. All SOEP users with a valid contract can order the FiD data in the usual ways (SOEPhotline, online form, fax form) without needing to sign any additional data distribution contracts. The dataset is available upon request for free ...
16.10.2014
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The Joachim R. Frick Memorial Prize honors the best paper and poster presented at the biennial SOEP User Conference. In 2014, the Joachim R. Frick Memorial Prize for the best paper went to Christoph Wunder, and the Joachim R. Frick Memorial Prize for the best poster went to Wouter Zwysen.Further information can be found here.
08.09.2014
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At this year's SOEP conference, the Felix Büchel Award was presented for the fifth time in the history of the SOEP. The Felix Büchel Award honors longtime SOEP users who have done important work with the SOEP data. In 2014, Jenny Hunt and Thomas Klein received the award.Further information on the 2014 Felix Büchel Award can be found here.
08.09.2014
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We are pleased to present highlights of the 11th SOEP User Conference in this short video. SOEP2014 Video Report
06.08.2014
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The SOEP’s 2013 Wave Report has just been published. It provides an overview of the SOEP’s activities in 2013, a year filled with numerous activities marking the SOEP’s thirtieth survey wave. These included a timeline series tracing the development of the SOEP survey and life in Germany in the context of broader global events, the SOEP Anniversary Colloquium on Happiness Research, ...
21.07.2014
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The new SOEPinfo not only contains documentation on SOEP-Core, but also on the new data format SOEPlong, our innovation panel SOEP-IS, 13 pretests from past years, and the Berlin Aging Study II (Base II). In the coming weeks and months we plan to activate further functions that will help users in their work with the data.A first prototype for the new basket and script generator has to be tested that ...
12.07.2014
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PIAAC-L stands for the extension of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)—which was conducted as a cross-sectional study in 24 European countries in 2011/12 on behalf of the OECD—now as a longitudinal study. PIAAC-L is a cooperation project between the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) at ...
11.07.2014
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Since financing of the study Families in Germany (Familien in Deutschland, FiD) through the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs (BMFSFJ) has ended after four waves, the households surveyed in FiD will be included in the SOEP as of 2014. To justify this, the sensitivity of the combination of the samples was tested, comparing the distributions of selected variables in the SOEP with their distributions ...
11.07.2014
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Background There is an increasing trend among surveys worldwide to connect respondent data with information from (governmental) administrative records. By using these linked data, researchers hope to validate, increase and specify their item sets and to lessen respondent burden. The SOEP has joined this promising development and seeks to connect the elaborated respondent data from the new SOEP Migration ...
11.07.2014
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In 2012, the SOEP again collected individual wealth information. The original data are stored in the file BCP. In the meantime, the generated wealth information has been updated to include wealth information from 2012. The files PWEALTH and HWEALTH are now available for download. If you are interested in obtaining these files, please contact Michaela Engelmann (soepmail@diw.de). The process of imputing ...
11.07.2014