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Weekly Report
by Jan Philipp Fritsche and Patrick Christian Harms
Twenty years after the introduction of the euro, this Weekly Report uses an empirical analysis to assess the performance of monetary policy in the EMU founding states. It is often claimed that the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) cannot outperform its national predecessors, as the euro area countries experience different business ...
15.05.2019| Jan Philipp Fritsche
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Personnel news
Dominique Hansen joined the SOEP team in April. He is taking over the development of paneldata.org from Marcel Hebing with a focus on user experience, software quality, and data quality. In his studies of information science, he explored the quality of research software, reproducibility, open science, and good scientific practice.
13.05.2019
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Weekly Report
by Michael Ribers and Hannes Ullrich
Improving physicians’ prescription practices is a primary strategy for countering the rise in resistance to antibiotics. This would prevent physicians from incorrectly prescribing antibiotics, one of the main causes of antibiotic resistance. The increasing availability of medical data and methods of machine learning provide an opportunity to generate ...
07.05.2019| Michael Allan Ribers, Hannes Ullrich
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Report
We have integrated the SOEPlong metadata into the SOEP-Core metadata on paneldata.org in the process of updating the information on the current wave of SOEP-Core (v34). We have also made a few additional improvements:
Improved presentation of topics. This makes it even easier to search for variables that are relevant to a particular research topic.
All questionnaires from 2016 and 2017 are now ...
06.05.2019
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Press Release
Around 20 DIW Berlin economists present solutions to European challenges - Uniform conditions can make the EU more resilient - Better incentive systems ensure more convergence - Europe must be united in countering global economic risks such as the US tariff dispute
Growth and progress towards equal living conditions across the European Union continues, but the crises of recent years have shown that ...
02.05.2019
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Report
**Update**
Just published: a new journal article to describe and refer to the SOEP data.
Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Stefan Liebig, Martin Kroh, David Richter, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp. 2019. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Journal of Economics and Statistics 239(2), 345-60. doi: 10.1515/jbnst-2018-0022 ...
16.04.2019
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Weekly Report
by Jule Adriaans, Stefan Liebig and Juergen Schupp
Representative survey results have shown a stable approval rate for implementing unconditional basic income of between 45 and 52 percent in Germany since 2016/17. In European comparison, this approval rate is low. Younger, better educated persons, and those at risk of poverty support the concept of unconditional basic income in Germany. But ...
10.04.2019| Jule Adriaans, Stefan Liebig, Jürgen Schupp
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Personnel news
Hans Walter Steinhauer joined the SOEP team on April 1. He will be working in the Survey Methodology and Management research area on sampling, weighting, and imputation. He will support the research area by contributing his experience from work on the National Educational Panel (NEPS) and other studies of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). Hans holds a doctorate in survey statistics. ...
09.04.2019
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Personnel news
SOEP Director and DIW Executive Board Member Professor Stefan Liebig has been appointed Professor of Empirical Social Structure Analysis and Survey Methodology at FU Berlin, where he began work on April 1, 2019. His position is a joint professorship between FU Berlin and DIW Berlin.
Stefan Liebig conducts research on social inequality and social structure analysis with a focus on attitudes towards ...
07.04.2019
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Press Release
Press release of the project group "Gemeinschaftsdiagnose": German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association, ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich in cooperation with the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), ...
04.04.2019
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Weekly Report
by Markus M. Grabka and Carsten Schröder
The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on secondary employment, show that there were around nine ...
03.04.2019| Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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Weekly Report
by Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Michelle Harnisch and Niklas Isaak
The ecological tax reform that Germany implemented between 1999 and 2003 increased energy tax rates—especially on gasoline and diesel. Today, the ecological tax hikes yield an annual revenue of around 20 billion euros or 0.6 percent of GDP. The money is used to finance a higher federal grant to the public pension scheme. Calculations ...
28.03.2019| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei
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Report
Australian Political Scientist Bruce Headey was not only one of the first SOEP data users—he was one of the first researchers in the world to discover the value of the SOEP for research on happiness. Headey is a Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in the University of Melbourne. He is a specialist in welfare and distributional issues and at the ...
22.03.2019
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Report
Based on extensive positive feedback from our users, we have decided to send the SOEPnewsletter in a simple and easily readable HTML format from now on. We would be glad about your feedback.
It will then mainly receive links to the news and content available on our website.
Please visit the current SOEPnewsletter
in our common web design
as a one page pdf document
20.03.2019
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Press Release
According to DIW Berlin estimates, the German economy will continue its solid growth performance in 2019 and 2020. Overall, however, the economy is cooling noticeably and production capacity utilization is returning to normal. This is primarily due to the global economy weakening; it has been strained by China’s weakening economy, trade conflicts, and political uncertainties such as Brexit. The ...
14.03.2019
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Weekly Report
by Claire Samtleben
Paid and unpaid work are still distributed very unequally between men and women in Germany. Regardless of time restrictions imposed by gainful employment, there is a gender- specific gap in time spent on housework and child care (gender care gap). The total volume of paid and unpaid work on weekdays is roughly the same for men and women (approx. 11 hours), although women perform ...
11.03.2019| Claire Samtleben
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Weekly Report
by Aline Zucco
The gender pay gap of 21 percent in Germany is partly due to the fact that men and women work in different occupations. However, considerable pay gaps between men and women can also be observed within occupations, although the gap is not constant across occupations. In particular, there is a substantial gender pay gap in occupations with non-linear earnings, i.e. earnings increase non-linearly ...
11.03.2019| Aline Zucco
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Personnel news
We are happy to announce Dennis Gaus and Jana Hamdan (both GC class 2017) as the new GC Student Representatives in 2019!
We thank Felicitas and Daniel for their excellent work last year and look forward to a continued great collaboration with the new representatives.
The two Student Representatives serve as spokespersons for the doctoral students. They facilitate communication between the GC staff ...
11.03.2019
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Personnel news
Valeriia Heidemann joined the SOEP team on March 1. She will be responsible for preparing data from the Survey of Refugees while Jana Nebelin is on leave. Valeriia holds a master’s in sociology from Freie Universität Berlin. While completing her degree, she worked as a student assistant at the SOEP and gained experience with SOEP data preparation. She will now be working as part of a team ...
09.03.2019
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Report
The new wave of SOEP-Core data (v34, 1984-2017) has been released! With this wave, we have completely revised our data provision process. To read more about the improvements awaiting you, click here.
If you haven’t ordered the v34 data yet, the SOEP hotline staff will be happy to take your order online in English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder or German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellung
SOEPhelp: ...
09.03.2019