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Exploring Integration and Migration Dynamics: The Research Potentials of a Large-Scale Longitudinal Household Study of Refugees in Germany

Forced migration has intensified in the 21st century, driven by conflicts, persecution, and political instability in regions such as the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and, most recently, Ukraine. Germany has become a primary destination for refugees within the European Union and one of the largest among the OECD countries. The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, ...

Assessing the Pre-implementation Cost-Effectiveness of Very Brief Advice for Adolescent Tobacco-Smoking Cessation in Kyrgyzstan: A FRESHAIR4Life Modeling Study

Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs and the Size of Their Firms

Personality research in entrepreneurship often focuses on venture entry and survival, leaving personality traits associated with firm size underexamined. Using novel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel that include a sample of owner-managers running larger firms, we investigate the relationship between personality—measured by the Big Five traits and risk tolerance—and firm size captured by the ...

SOEP-LEE2: Data Updates and New Research Opportunities

The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer–Employee Survey, Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2), provides linked information on employees, establishments, and self-employed individuals in Germany. An earlier Data Observer article (Matiaske, Wenzel, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, M. Maas, D. Holtmann, C. Schröder, et al. 2024. “SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany.” Jahrbücher ...

Policy Change and Women’s and Men’s Earnings Around Divorce: Evidence from the German Maintenance Reform

This paper analyses the impact of divorce on the gross earnings of women and men and investigates how differences in social policy contexts influence these relationships. In particular, it focuses on a policy reform enacted in Germany in 2008 that overturned previous ex-spousal support rules. Data come from the administrative records of the German Public Pension Fund. Drawing on a fixed-effects panel ...

Behavioral Responses to Inheritance Taxes: Evidence from Brazil

In this paper, I examine behavioral responses to inheritance and gift taxes using administrative microdata from Brazil, in a context where taxpayers knew three months in advance that tax rates would increase. I document four findings. First, gifts surge by about 300% just before the reform takes effect. Second, estate filings fall by 30%, largely because small estates become exempt. Third, taxable ...

The Distribution of National Income in Germany, 1992–2019

This paper estimates and analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since reunification, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. We find that pre-tax national income inequality has increased since the 1990s, though to a lesser extent than suggested by previous studies. Our results draw parallels in top income structure ...

Intragenerational Mobility in Wealth in Germany, Norway, and Britain: Descriptive Evidence

We study intragenerational wealth rank mobility, investigating three dimensions: (i) wealth mobility over the life cycle, (ii) heterogeneity in mobility among subgroups and wealth components, and (iii) commonalities and differences across divergent country contexts. We use data from Germany (SOEP, N= 12,380 individuals), Norway (administrative register data, N=3,460,602), and Britain (BHPS, N=7,910; ...

The Mediating Role of School Absenteeism in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap

Socioeconomic disparities in children's academic achievement are well established, but the underlying mechanisms are less well understood. We test the hypothesis that socioeconomic disparities in children’s achievement in early primary school are partially mediated via school absences. We used linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS, birth cohort 2000/01) and the National Pupil Database (NPD) ...

The DIW Women Executives Barometer (DIW Managerinnen Barometer): Data on the Gender Composition of Corporate Boards in Germany

This article describes the DIW Women Executives Barometer (“DIW Managerinnen Barometer”), an annually updated dataset on the gender composition of executive and supervisory boards in large German companies. The panel covers the 200 largest nonfinancial companies, all DAX-listed firms, the 100 largest banks and 60 largest insurance companies, and all companies with federal participation. It records ...