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Interview
Matthias Pollmann-Schult has been a grant holder in the DFG’s Heisenberg Programme at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, since 2012. He was a student research assistant with the SOEP from 1997 to 2000. He is one of the few male sociologists doing research on fathers using the SOEP data. We talked to him about his findings on the new generation of “involved fathers,” on whether ...
28.12.2015
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Report
As reported in SOEPnewsletter 109, two international conferences organized by the SOEP team will be taking place in Berlin in Summer 2016.
Don’t miss the deadlines to submit your papers:
ESPE 30, June 15-18, 2015: deadline for submissions is February 1, 2016.More information at http://www.espe2016.de
SOEP 2016, June 22-23, 2016: deadline for submissions is February 29, 2016. More information ...
28.12.2015
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Report
New faces at the CNEF projectWe are pleased to introduce two new members of the OSU team. Laura Fumagalli (PhD economics University of Essex) is on temporary “loan” from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. At ISER Laura helps to impute missing data in Understanding Society. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. While at OSU, Laura ...
28.12.2015
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Report
The following topical modules were part of the SOEP-Core survey last year:
Control beliefs and reciprocity
Friends networks
Joint income
At the household level: household energy use
Last year’s SOEP survey was also the first to include detailed questions about the minimum wage. To give you an idea what data to expect in fall 2016, we have published the questionnaires on our website together ...
28.12.2015
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Report
An update of the recent SOEP-IS data distribution 2013 is available (DOI: 10.5684/soep.is.2013.2).
What’s new?
Household and person weights are now included for 2013 in data sets hhrf and phrf.
What’s changed?
Variables on unemployment, partnership status, and nationality (plb0021, pld0132, pld0133 plj0014, plj0025, plk0001) in dataset p now include information on new respondents ...
28.12.2015
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Report
We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 110, January 2016.
We have some interesting news about
our plans regarding an IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Sample (see 'A note on ...' and a report about a workshop)
an update of the SOEP-IS Release 2013
an update of the Cross-national Equivalent File (CNEF) data and new faces at the CNEF project
the current composition of ...
23.12.2015
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Report
The 2015 GC Winter Workshop was hosted by DIW Berlin on December 10th and 11th.
Five alumni and four PhD candidates presented their research, receiving valuable feedback. Topics ranged from environmental economics to public finance and macroeconomics, with discussions – sometimes heated – from GC students.
Serving as an opportunity students and alumni to meet in order to discuss research ...
23.12.2015
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Personnel news
DIW GC almunus Nicolas Ziebarth was awarded the 2015 “Regionalisierte Versorgungsforschung” Science Award, together with co-author Peter Eibich. Their paper, “Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models,” received the 5,000€ prize.
The investigation of Peter Eibich and Nicolas Ziebarth addresses the modeling and estimation ...
17.12.2015
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Press Release
DIW Berlin’s economic forecast: GDP growth will remain stable over the next two years – domestic economy benefiting from favorable labor market situation and expenditure on asylum seekers – public sector has surpluses, but margins are tightening The German economy is expected to continue in its upward growth over the next two years: According to the latest economic forecasts from ...
17.12.2015
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Interview
Mr. Junker, what kind of growth figures are you expecting for the German economy?
The growth of the German economy will be slightly above average over the next few quarters. But this is also connected with special factors like higher consumption due to, among other things, the increasing number of refugees. The German economy is expected to grow by about 1.7 percent this year, and will be somewhat ...
16.12.2015
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Report
We would like to remind you of the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) and encourage you to consider using this instrument in developing new empirical research questions to use the SOEP Innovation Sample for your innovative research projects.
Please contact SOEP Survey Management (soepsurveymanagement@diw.de) as soon as possible, to present your proposal. If the project is determined ...
09.12.2015
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Personnel news
Christoph Große Steffen sucessfully defended his dissertation on December 3rd at FU Berlin.
Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate him on his success!
04.12.2015
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Personnel news
Sören Radde sucessfully defended his dissertation on November 27th at TU Berlin.
Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate him on his success!
02.12.2015
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Personnel news
Veronika Bertram-Hümmer sucessfully defended her dissertation on November 25th at Leibniz University of Hannover.
Prof. Dr. Gerd G. Wagner and Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulate her on her success!
02.12.2015
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Press Release
DIW Berlin’s construction volume calculations: construction industry remains a key pillar of the German economy—need for action in energy-efficient refurbishment and in accommodating refugees
The construction industry remains a key pillar of the German economy: buildings worth a total of around 338 billion euros will have been constructed or modernized in Germany by the end of this year—2.7 ...
02.12.2015
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Interview
Dr. Michelsen, how important has the construction industry been for the German economy in recent years?
After the construction industry hit rock bottom in the first decade of this century, it has recovered considerably since 2010. It is now an important pillar of the German economy and contributes significantly to growth in the country. Since 2010, we have seen a sharp increase in the volume of construction. ...
02.12.2015
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Report
Veronika Bertram-Hümmer has been honored for her research with the University Meets Microfinance Award. The outstanding section of her doctoral dissertation was also published as a DIW Discussion Paper in collaboration with Kati Krähnert, Head of Development and Security. Their research demonstrates that an index-based weather insurance can help households in developing countries, such as ...
26.11.2015
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Report
by Franziska Holz, Hanna Brauers and Thorsten Roobeek
Two years ago, DIW Berlin introduced “Familienarbeitszeit”, which offers wage replacement for families in which both partners decide to take on reduced full-time employment (working hours amount¬ing to roughly 80 percent of a full-time job, henceforth referred to as “three-quarters employment”). This study investigates ...
25.11.2015
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Interview
Dr. Holz, what’s the link between the earthquakes that have occurred in the Netherlands and natural gas production?
In the past two or three years, the Netherlands has experienced a very high number of increasingly powerful earthquakes which have also had an impact on property. People are concerned that these earthquakes are triggered by Dutch natural gas extraction destabilizing geological ...
25.11.2015
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Report
Veronika Bertram-Hümmer, has been honored for her research with the University Meets Microfinance Award. The outstanding section of her doctoral dissertation was also published as a DIW Discussion Paper in collaboration with Kati Krähnert, Head of Development and Security. Their research demonstrates that an index-based weather insurance can help households in developing countries, such ...
24.11.2015