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*April 15, 1933 – †July 29, 2024
The founder of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) passed away on July 29, 2024, at the age of 91. Following his studies in industrial engineering, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Policy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1969 and headed the university from 1975 to 1979. From 1972, he headed the ...
06.08.2024
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The SOEPnewsletter July 2024 in it's html version is now availabe in English. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list.
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30.07.2024
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What is the state of poverty and social cohesion in Germany? What about the integration of Ukrainian refugees? How has people's mental health developed over the last 20 years? In 2023, researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) once again used its long-term panel data to conduct research on a wide range of topics relating to social change in Germany.
In the 2023 annual report, SOEP looks back ...
10.07.2024| Verena Neumann
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Immediately following its 40th anniversary ceremony at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, SOEP held a two-day user conference entitled “The individual and collective responses to a changing world.”
With 15 sessions and 64 presentations, the conference impressively demonstrated the wide range of topics covered by research on SOEP data. One of the keynote speakers at the conference, ...
08.07.2024| Janina Britzke, Verena Neumann
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The IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany" examines diverse aspects of Ukrainian refugees’ lives—the circumstances surrounding their departure from Ukraine, comprehensive socio-demographic characteristics, and information on housing, school, vocational and university degrees, employment, German language skills, life satisfaction and worries, family constellations before and ...
01.07.2024| SOEP Community Management
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Personnel news
On April 10, David Kasprowski successfully completed his dissertation entitled "'Queering' Social Class. On the connection between sexual orientation, gender identity and social class" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
David submitted and defended the dissertation as part of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS).
The committee consisted of Ellen Heidinger (SOEP and BGSS), Prof. Dr. ...
23.04.2024
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Dr. Jule Adriaans was awarded the Peter A. Berger Prize 2024 for her dissertation on “Distributive Justice: Definition, Determinants, and Consequences of the Justice of Earnings.” After Adriaans, a SOEP doctoral candidate (2018-2022), completed her PhD at the University of Bielefeld, she accepted a postdoc position at its Faculty of Sociology. Her work focuses mainly on income inequality and justice, ...
17.04.2024
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The Leibniz Association has announced the funding of seven ScienceCampuses. The existing campus “SOEP RegioHub” (“Regional Development Dynamics and their Social, Economic and Political Consequences”) – a cooperation between SOEP and Bielefeld University in Bielefeld – will be funded for a further four years.
Leibniz ScienceCampuses serve the strategic networking of Leibniz institutes with universities ...
27.03.2024| Jan Goebel
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The new Leibniz Lab „Pandemic Preparedness: One Health, One Future” links excellent inter- and transdisciplinary research from 41 Leibniz institutes. For the first time in Germany, pathogen-oriented sciences (virology, bacteriology, mycology and immunology) are collaborating with other life sciences such as ecology, health technologies, health economics, and educational research.
The Socio-Economic ...
27.03.2024| Sabine Zinn
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* The 5th of January 1953 in Kelsterbach – † The 28th of January 2024 in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner, the long-time director of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), passed away unexpectedly on January 28, 2024. Alongside the founding father of the SOEP, Hans-Jürgen Krupp, Gert G. Wagner was the face and intellectual stimulus for the development of the SOEP for decades, which is celebrating ...
02.02.2024
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Gert G. Wagner passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on January 28, 2024, at the age of 71. He led the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) for many years and later served as the Chairman of the Executive Board (President) of DIW Berlin.
“DIW Berlin owes a great deal to Gert G. Wagner. For over 30 years, he made irreplaceable contributions to the development ...
30.01.2024
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Report
SOEP Senior Research Fellow Philipp Lersch was granted one of the highest endowed research grants of the European Commission, the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. He successfully competed with his project “WEALTHTRAJECT: Understanding Trajectories of Wealth Accumulation and Their Variability.” From December 2024, the project will receive approximately two million Euros over the next ...
23.01.2024| Philipp M. Lersch
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Report
Last year, the SOEP innovation sample (SOEP-IS) received numerous proposals for new and innovative modules. After selecting the best modules, we are pleased to report that we were able to significantly expand the potential of the data. The SOEP-IS team is currently conducting an exceptionally high number of inspiring projects, collaborations, and longitudinal innovation modules. Due to the many new ...
10.01.2024| Carina Cornesse
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The leadership of both SOEP and “Understanding Society” (The UK Household Longitudinal Study) announced that they will intensify their long-standing collaboration in the future. They intend to coordinate closely on current challenges that large panel studies face, thereby pooling their comprehensive expertise. In addition, the employees of both studies will benefit from mutual exchange on all topics ...
12.12.2023| Sabine Zinn
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The two-day spring meeting "The Power of Where: Spatial Insights from Survey Data" will take place in person at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus on February 29 to March 1, 2024. The meeting is jointly organized by the Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR), Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), and SOEP-RegioHub at Bielefeld University and is conceived as a lunch-to-lunch ...
06.10.2023| Jan Goebel
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The call for papers for the 15th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. SOEP 2024 will take place from July 4-5, 2024, in Berlin, and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "individual and collective responses to a changing world." Keynote speakers will be Simon Jäger from IZA/MIT and ...
12.09.2023| Janina Britzke
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The first Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available
The SCP is a newly established longitudinal study that captures multiple aspects of social cohesion in Germany. It is based on a representative population sample drawn from the German population registers and was carried out for the first time in 2021. The annual survey is directed not only at the selected individuals ...
28.07.2023| Julian B. Axenfeld, Carina Cornesse
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All registered data users can now order the current data via our online order form.
In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder
Due to a change of the survey institute, there was a delay in the data transfer this year. Unfortunately, we still could not include all information in this data delivery. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Key information ...
18.07.2023| SOEP Community Management
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Press Release
Second survey wave of around 7,000 Ukrainians on their life situations and progress in social participation
For the second time, Ukrainians who fled because of the Russian war of aggression were interviewed about their life in Germany. Key results are: At the beginning of 2023, almost half of the respondents intend to stay in Germany in the longer term. The number of people in employment has increased ...
12.07.2023
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New data, new projects, new faces: In 2022, a lot of new things happened at the Socio-Economic Panel.
Last year's annual report provides again a compact and clear insight into all the SOEP's activities on topics such as forced migration, wealth, new samples, pension data, and mental health as well as on the fieldwork carried out by infas.
The report is available online free of charge. We would ...
11.07.2023| Janina Britzke