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Publication
“Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany? Publications use Socio-Economic Panel data
The “Sozialbericht 2024,” produced in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Panel, is being presented today. It is published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).
The ...
06.11.2024| Verena Neumann
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
All registered data users can order the latest data immediately via our online order form.In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder
Important news for v39:
New samples: With the refreshment sample R and the migration sample M8b, two new samples were added to the SOEP data.
Currently, there is only a preliminary weighting, as the marginal distributions for ...
22.10.2024| SOEP Community Management
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
All registered data users can order the latest data immediately via our online order form.In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder
Important news for v39:
New samples: With the refreshment sample R and the migration sample M8b, two new samples were added to the SOEP data.
Currently, there is only a preliminary weighting, as the marginal distributions for ...
22.10.2024| SOEP Community Management
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Report
The application portal for the doctoral program of the DIW Graduate Center is now open!
Graduates can apply until January 15, 2025 for the 2025 cohort (start: October 2025). The program offers structured doctoral training with a full scholarship in the first year and employment in a department in subsequent years. Applicants should have a Master's degree in economics or related subjects.
More information ...
15.10.2024| Laura Starck
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Personnel news
We congratulate Johannes Seebauer on successfully defending his dissertation on November 19, 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics’ and he was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos.
We wish him much success and all the best for his future career!
11.10.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
We congratulate Jonas Hannane on successfully defending his dissertation on 08 October 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization’ and he was supervised by Tomaso Duso and Hannes Ullrich.
We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
11.10.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
We congratulate Mats Kröger on successfully defending his dissertation on 26 September 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Does a fair transition reduce efficiency? Essays on the distributional effects of energy and climate policy’ and he was supervised by Karsten Neuhoff and Chloé Le-Coq.
We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
11.10.2024
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Personnel news
Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation on October 8, 2024 at the Technische Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization" was supervised by Professor Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin) and Professor Dr. Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen).
Jonas was a PhD student at the Firms and ...
09.10.2024
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Press Release
First study of the relationship between the gender of entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap – Finnish data shows: wage gap in companies owned by women more than two percentage points lower than in companies owned by men – In many service industries, the gender pay gap is close to zero when companies are owned by women
In companies owned by women, the earnings gap between female and male employees is ...
02.10.2024
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Report
On December 5, the Institute and DIW GC celebrated the graduation of 15 of our graduates with a festive ceremony. After an opening speech by Marcel Fratzscher and an inspiring speech by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth, Helmut Lütkepohl was also bid farewell to his well-deserved retirement. The Executive Board and Kerstin Bernoth thanked him warmly for his important work in doctoral training and at the GC. ...
30.09.2024
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Report
We are excited to welcome the new 2024 cohort of PhD students, with some joining through the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE) and others directly through our program. All of them will conduct their research at DIW Berlin, marking the start of their academic journey with us.
We wish them all the best as they embark on the path toward earning their doctorates and look forward to supporting their research ...
30.09.2024| Arianna Antezza, Lukas Barner, Dominik Patrick Bursy, Alexander Grawe, Jonas Jungehülsing, Andreea-Maria Stoica
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) is designed to enable innovative data collection for the research community. It is particularly well suited to establishing new and target-group-specific measurement instruments in long-term surveys, to conducting short- and long-term experiments, and to collecting non-survey data (such as biomarkers).
Researchers who are interested in submitting a proposal for ...
26.09.2024| Mariel McKone Leonard
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) is designed to enable innovative data collection for the research community. It is particularly well suited to establishing new and target-group-specific measurement instruments in long-term surveys, to conducting short- and long-term experiments, and to collecting non-survey data (such as biomarkers).
Researchers who are interested in submitting a proposal for ...
26.09.2024| Mariel McKone Leonard
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Press Release
The Joint Economic Forecast Project Group forecasts a 0.1% decline in Germany's gross domestic product in 2024. Looking further ahead, the institutes expect a weak recovery with growth of 0.8% (2025) and 1.3% (2026). Compared to the spring forecast, this represents a downward revision of 0.2 (2024) and 0.6 (2025) percentage points. “In addition to the economic downturn, the German economy is also being ...
26.09.2024
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
The 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) and the 15th Conference of the Austrian Psychological Society (ÖGP) will be held jointly from September 16 to 19, 2024 at the University of Vienna, Austria, under the theme “Menschen, Mitwelt, Medien” - several SOEP employees will also be on site to present their research with SOEP data:
Emilija Meier-Faust will give a presentation on ...
05.09.2024
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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
We congratulate Fabian Seyrich on successfully defending his dissertation on 9 July 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Five Essays in Macroeconomics’ and he was supervised by Prof Dr Alexander Kriwoluzky and Prof Dr Christian Bayer. Fabian will remain with DIW and the Macroeconomics Department for part of the time. From 15 August 2024, he will also take up a new position as Assistant Professor at the ...
14.08.2024
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
In October 2024, the online workshop series "SOEPcampus: Learn to Use the SOEP Over Lunch" returns. This workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) study on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation.
To ...
09.08.2024| Sandra Bohmann, Janina Britzke
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Personnel news
*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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Personnel news
*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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Nachrichten [Graduate Center]
Andreas Leibing, who works at the Public Economics Department, has successfully The dissertation with the title "Education, Expectations, and the Economy: Four Essays in Education and Labor Economics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Katharina Spieß and Prof. Dr. Jan Marcus.
We congratulate Andreas on his success and wish him all the best for his future career.
31.07.2024