SOEP-LEE2 Compare

The study “Establishments and Working Life in Germany” (SOEP-LEE2-Compare) is jointly conducted by the Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin (SOEP) and the IPA Institute for Personnel and Work (IPA) at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (HSU). The study is part of the SOEP-LEE2 project, which draws on primary data from establishments and self-employed individuals. An important component of this project is SOEP-LEE2-Compare. SOEP-LEE2-Compare consists of representative establishment surveys based on samples drawn from the establishment database of the German Federal Employment Agency. It is therefore independent of SOEP-Core with respect to employer sampling, and the surveyed establishments cannot be linked to SOEP-Core respondents.

SOEP-LEE2-Compare comprises four waves of establishment surveys conducted between 2022 and 2026. The 2022, 2023, and 2024 waves have already been released. The 2022, 2023, and 2026 waves contain the same questions as the SOEP-LEE2-Core surveys, that is, surveys of the employers of dependent employees who participated in SOEP-Core, conducted in 2022, 2024, and 2026 (see SOEP-LEE2 data).

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