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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp

Senior Research Fellow of the

German Socio-Economic Panel study Research Infrastructure

Research Topics and Working Areas
Jürgen Schupp studied Economics and Sociology in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main, completing his diploma in Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1983. He then took over a position as Junior Research Associate at the University of Frankfurt in the German Research Foundation's Special Research Unit "Microanalytic Foundations of Social Policy" (Sfb 3) At the end of 1984, he transferred within the Special Research Unit into the project "Socio-Economic Panel", located at DIW Berlin under then-president Hans-Jürgen Krupp, and thereafter made a series of longer research visits to the USA and Great Britain. In 1994, he completed his doctorate at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He has worked closely with the Free University Berlin for many years as a visiting lecturer at the Institute for Sociology. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2000. In March 2006 Jürgen Schupp has been appointed Honorary Professor for Sociology in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University. 2009 to 2013 Vice-Dean of Graduates Studies at the DIW Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research. From 12/2005-03/2006 and 08-09/2006 Jürgen Schupp worked as Research Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Delmenhorst. As survey manager and deputy director of the longitudinal socio-economic panel study (SOEP), Jürgen Schupp has been responsible for planning the further development of SOEP as a survey instrument for many years. From February 2011 to December 2012 he served as Interim Head of Research Unit Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). From February 2013 to December 2017 he was appointed as Director of Research Unit Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Currently he is Senior Research Fellow at SOEP at DIW Berlin. Since September 2013, Jürgen Schupp has held the position of Full Professor of Sociology with a focus on empirical social research Freie Universität Berlin.

Publications

Sozialer Fortschritt

Klima der Angst oder Respekt auf Augenhöhe? Erfahrungen von Hartz IV-Beziehenden mit Jobcentern im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie

2021 | Beckmann, Fabian, Rolf G. Heinze, Dominik Schad & Jürgen Schupp
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik

Growing Potentials for Migrant Research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study

2021 | Jacobsen, Jannes, Magdalena Krieger, Felicitas Schikora & Jürgen Schupp
Journal of Economic Perspectives

Risk Preference: A View from Psychology

2018 | Mata, Rui, Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp & Ralph Hertwig
European Sociological Review

The Individual in Context(s): Research Potentials of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in Sociology

2019 | Giesselmann, Marco, Sandra Bohmann, Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Elisabeth Liebau, Diana Schacht, David Richter, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp & Stefan Liebig
DIW Weekly Report 21 / 2023

Strong Support for a Universal Basic Income, in Particular among Those Who Would Benefit

2023| Marius R. Busemeyer, Adrian Rinscheid, Jürgen Schupp
DIW Wochenbericht 21 / 2023

Hohe Zustimmung zu bedingungslosem Grundeinkommen – vor allem bei den möglichen Profiteur*innen

2023| Marius R. Busemeyer, Adrian Rinscheid, Jürgen Schupp
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Schärfere Bürgergeld-Sanktionen? Darin steckt eine große Chance

In: Focus (29.01.2024), [Online-Artikel] | Jürgen Schupp
Weitere externe Aufsätze

Bürger- und Klimageld als Wende zu einer generationengerechteren Sozial- und Klimapolitik?

In: Paula-Irene Villa (Hrsg.) , Polarisierte Welten : Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2022
Essen: DSG
S. 1-9
| Rolf G. Heinze, Jürgen Schupp
Externe Monographien

Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State

Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023, XIV, 275 S. | Rolf G. Heinze, Jürgen Schupp
Refereed essays Web of Science

Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (2022), 44, e2203150119, 8 S. | Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Tomasz Żółtak, Jule Adriaans, Philipp Lersch, Lea-Maria Löbel, Katja Schmidt, Jürgen Schupp, Jannes Jacobsen ...

Lectures

Vortrag

Die soziale Sicherung in Deutschland und das Pilotprojekt Grundeinkommen

Jürgen Schupp
Berlin, 02.07.2022
| Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, DIW Berlin
Diskussionsteilnahme

Podiumsdiskussion

Jürgen Schupp
[Online], 27.04.2022
| Kindergrundsicherung, Bürger- und Energiegeld – ist Deutschland bereits auf dem Weg zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen? [Online]
Vortrag

RCT Basic Income Pilot Study in Germany

Jürgen Schupp
[Online], 20.12.2021
| International Symposium: CaixaForum Barcelona [Online]
Vortrag

Ehrenamt in Deutschland – „Systemrelevant“ oder nur ein „Sahnehäubchen“ für die Demokratie?

Stefan Liebig, Jürgen Schupp
[Online], 09.11.2021 - 10.11.2021
| Menschen stärken Menschen: 6. BBE-Fachkonress [Online]
Vortrag

Basic Income Experiment in Germany

Jürgen Schupp
[Online], 23.09.2021
| Basic Income Pilots and Experiments around the World: What Can Be Learned for European Welfare States?: 1st Online BABEL Conference

Research Projects

Research Project

Basic Income Pilot Project

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development (BRISE)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

KonsortSWD

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Longitudinal Aspects of the Interaction between Health and Integration of Refugees in Germany (LARGE)

Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Affective and cultural dimensions of integration following forced migration and immigration (AFFIN)

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Cross-national Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Leibniz Network "Non-Cognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences"

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Mentoring of Refugees (MORE)

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Neighbourhood Effects: The Analysis of individual rational behaviour in a social context

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

PIAAC-L: Cooperative project for the new longitudinal study PIAAC-L in Germany

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Refugee Families in Germany (Geflüchtete Familien in Deutschland, GeFam)

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

Social Closure and Hierarchization

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

SOEP-LEE: The Linked Employer-Employee Survey of the Socio-Economic Panel Study

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
Research Project

The “Discovery” of Youth’s Learning Potential Early in the Life Course

Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study

In the media

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