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Report
Prof. Kroh, DIW Berlin analyzed 2013 survey data on refugees who, for the most part, came to Germany between 1990 and 2010. How many of those refugees were employed in Germany at the time of the survey?
In the group we analyzed, approximately two thirds of all male refugees reported finding a job within the first five years of their arrival in Germany. This share was considerably smaller among female ...
07.09.2016
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Report
Academic and vocational qualifications play a crucial role when it comes to successfully integrating refugees and other migrants into society. What qualifications did migrants already acquire in their country of origin and which did they obtain in Germany? And to what extent are qualifications gained abroad recognized in Germany? The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample shows that the majority of the migrant ...
07.09.2016
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Report
Whether they’re looking to participate in social life, enter the German labor market, or obtain relevant training certificates, learning German is a critical part of integration for the majority of refugees—and yet only a handful of studies have examined their language acquisition patterns and skill levels. The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample, which was collected by the Institute for Employment ...
07.09.2016
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Report
It has taken longer for refugees who have been living in Germany for some time, particularly those who arrived between 1990 and 2010, to take up gainful employment than other migrants. These findings are based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. In addition, these refugees show a higher rate of unemployment and earn lower incomes by comparison even years ...
01.09.2016
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Report
In Germany, the majority of people tend to find work through friends, acquaintances, and relatives when they first enter the labor market or switch jobs. The same applies to immigrants and their offspring. Integrating refugees into the labor market is considered crucial to their overall integration into society, yet little is known about how they land their first jobs. The present paper attempts to ...
01.09.2016
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Personnel news
Max von Ungern-Sternberg will support the SOEP team in the documentation of data generation processes. This includes SOEPcore and SOEPlong.He has finshed his Master of Science in Economics at the Freie Universität in April (Master thesis: The effect of tuition fees on study duration) and will be part of the team until the end of the year 2016.
09.08.2016
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Personnel news
Marvin Petrenz passed his final exam as Specialist in Market and Social Research (FAMS) on July 11, 2016.
Congratulations to Marvin, who will continue working on the SOEP team in the area of data management.
09.08.2016
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Personnel news
Adrian Hille, who joined the DIW Graduate Center in October 2011 and worked at the SOEP until February 2016, defended his dissertation “Developing skills through non-formal learning activities: four essays in the economics of education” on July 19, 2016, at Freie Universität Berlin (Advisors: C. Katharina Spieß, FU Berlin, and Silke Anger, University of Bamberg).
His recent ...
09.08.2016
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Personnel news
Nina Vogel worked in the SOEP up to April 2016 under a scholarship from the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE). She successfully defended her dissertation on "Contextual Effects on Individual Development of Subjective Well-being in the Second Half of Life" on July 10, 2016 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Advisor: Denis Gerstorf).
09.07.2016
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Personnel news
Marcel Hebing successfully defended his dissertation at the University of Bamberg, Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics, and Business Administration, on May 17, 2016. In his dissertation entitled "A Metadata-Driven Approach to Panel Data Management and its Application in DDI on Rails," he presents a generic framework for the development of a metadata-driven infrastructure for panel studies developed ...
09.06.2016
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Personnel news
Elisabeth Bügelmayer, department of German Socio-Economic Panel, has successfully defended her dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title “Survey and Experimental Evidence on the Development of Children's Preferences and Skills" was supervised by Katharina Spieß (Freie Universität Berlin).
The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulates ...
03.06.2016
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Press Release
The SOEP’s Barometer of Public Opinion on Refugees in Germany examines the population’s attitudes, expectations, and fears—most respondents supported the rights of refugees to remain in the country in accordance with EU law and the 1951 Refugee Convention—but the majority are in favor of refugees returning if the situation improves in their country of origin
The majority of ...
25.05.2016
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Interview
Professor Schupp, in Germany, public debate on the refugee issue has sometimes been quite heated. Is the population really as concerned as it often appears?
If we are talking about granting refugees the right to remain in Germany in accordance with the 1951 Refugee Convention, it’s clear that the vast majority of the population are in favor of granting temporary asylum. This particularly applies ...
25.05.2016
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Press Release
Please note: this is a corrected version of the original press release.
DIW Berlin study compares proportion of middle-class individuals over time in Germany and US - share declining in both countries - average income has dropped since 2000
The middle class in both the US and Germany is on the decline: according to a study conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the ...
06.05.2016
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Press Release
Correction to the press release from May 6, 2016
Please note: The original version of Wochenbericht 18, which compares the decline of the middle class in Germany and with that of the United States, contained a calculation error that came about while adjusting standard German reference values to the basis used by the reference study for the US. We apologize for the oversight.
We have ...
06.05.2016
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Interview
Dr. Grabka, you conducted a study of the share of middle-income group in the US and Germany. Why did you choose these two countries for your comparison?
In December 2015, the Pew Research Center in the US published findings on the development of the middle-income tier which triggered a broad public debate beyond the borders of the US. This prompted us to conduct similar analyses using comparative ...
06.05.2016
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Press Release
DIW study: in several European countries prior to 2010, between 27 and 40 percent of households received inheritances or gifts – German tax policy regarding inheritances and gifts riddled with exceptions
High-income individuals are more likely to inherit wealth than are low-income individuals; they also receive significantly larger amounts. Those from privileged social backgrounds are also able ...
03.05.2016
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Interview
Mr. Westermeier, in which European countries do we see assets being inherited more frequently and in which countries is this a less frequent occurrence?
Overall, the frequency of inheritances and gifts is quite similar across all European countries. Between 30 and 40 percent of households benefited from an inheritance. However, the figures depend on the age structure and/ or when exactly intergenerational ...
27.04.2016
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Personnel news
Sarah Dahmann, a doctoral student of the German Socio-Economic Panel department, was awarded the "Sir Alec Cairncross Award" for her paper "How Does Education Improve Cognitive Skills? Instructional Time versus Timing of Instruction" at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Scottish Economic Society.
The prize was handed over to Sarah by nobel lauterate Sir Christopher Pissarides.
19.04.2016
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Report
by Charlotte Bartels and Carsten Schröder
What share of total income in Germany is owned by the country’s top income earners and how has this share developed over the past decade? Answers to these questions can be found both in representative survey data such as the longitudinal Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and in administrative data on income taxation. After the statistics have been ...
14.01.2016