Research Projects

SET-Nav

‘SET-Nav – Navigating the Roadmap for Clean, Secure and Efficient Energy Innovation’ is an EC-funded project which intends to support strategic decision enhancing innovation towards a clean, secure and efficient energy system for Europe's energy sector. The project started in April 2016 and is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. It is being implemented by a consortium of...

Short and longterm impacts of the renewable energy expansion on the labour market

Seeking for reliable empirical foundation for the assessment of the gross-net employment effect of the expanding renewable energy sector.

Short-term economic effects of a 'Brexit' on the German economy

The scientific report summarizes the state of the literature on the subject of short-term Brexit consequences and carries out quantitative simulations of the economic effects of a hard Brexit on the German economy using suitable macro-econometric methods.

Short-time work, unemployment and gender inequalities

In this project, we will evaluate and compare the impact of unemployment, parental leave and short- time work on the careers of men and women, as well as on the gender division of unpaid care work within families. In particular, we address the question of whether involuntary paid leave in form of short-time work affects gender gaps in the labor market as well as the existing gender division of...

Smart Public Intangibles (SPINTAN)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 612774. The SPINTAN project aims at discovering the theoretical and empirical underpins of public intangible policies. It widens previous work carried out by Corrado, Hulten and Sichel including the public sector in their...

SME Performance Review 2012

The full report is available at: SME Performance Review

SME Performance Review 2013/2014

The SME Performance Review is one of the main tools the European Commission uses to monitor and assess countries' progress in implementing the Small Business Act (SBA) on a yearly basis. With an emphasis on the measures from the SBA Action Plan, the review brings comprehensive information on the performance of SMEs in EU Member States and other 9 partner countries. It consists of two parts –...

Social Closure and Hierarchization

Contextual Conditions of Unequal Developmental Opportunities in Early Phases of Life Project A1 of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 882 "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities" This project extends research on the genesis and effects of individual heterogeneity to cover psychological characteristics and their interplay with socioeconomic characteristics. It looks at cognitive and non...

Social-ecological transformation index

This project assesses the sustainability of the German economy by recognizing that environmental degradation is not limited to carbon emissions or confined by national borders. It complements existing sustainability indicators by combining environmentally-extended input-output (EE-IO) tables with national-level sustainability thresholds based on the planetary boundary framework introduced by...

SOEP Record Linkage: longitudinal survey of migrants from the social insurance statistics (SOEP-REC-LINK)

There is currently a lack of reliable empirical data in two areas of growing importance for future migration and integration research: a) data on the integration of German-born children and grandchildren of immigrants, and b) data on the integration of immigrants from countries that have joined the EU since 2004. In cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, the...

SOEP-LEE: The Linked Employer-Employee Survey of the Socio-Economic Panel Study

There is increasing consensus in the economic and social sciences that the workplace plays a crucial role in individual life outcomes. This is true in the economic and sociological labor market research, network and social capital research, health research, the research on educational and competency acquisition processes, wage information, and the work-life interface, as well as in the inequality...

SOEP-Transfer: Research Data for Journalists and Contemporary Historians

The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is the largest and longest-running longitudinal survey of households in Germany. Every year as part of the annual SOEP survey, around 30,000 individuals in 15,000 households provide comprehensive data on their social and economic conditions. The survey data are used by researchers worldwide. The project SOEP-Transfer (scientific project name: “Sharing knowledge and...

Start-up Subsidies for Entrepreneurs out of Unemployment

The OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) monitors and reports on the state, development and impact of inclusive entrepreneurial activity in European Union and OECD countries, and related public policies and actions. It focuses on how public policy can create jobs through self-employment and...

Strengthen national climate policy implementation: Comparative empirical learning & creating linkage to climate finance – SNAPFI

About Our Project The project researches the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Brazil, Germany/EU, India, Indonesia and South Africa, by research-based policy advice and capacity building. The project will especially analyse policy and financial instruments that support the just transition to a climate-friendly pathway and that can contribute to the mobilization of...

Stromspeicher als zentrales Element der Integration von Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien (StoRES)

In this project, we carry out model-based economic analyses of different strategies for renewable energy integration in Germany, with a focus on storage technologies. Quantitative, numerical power market models are used to analyse the demand for storage capacities, the interaction between storage and transmission expansion, and the use of storage in oligopolistic markets. Moreover, we investigate...

Structural Data on Production and Employment in the Construction Industry - Calculations for the Years 2016 - 2019

Structural Data on Production and Employment in the Construction Industry - Calculations for the Years 2020 - 2023

Structural Development of the EU ETS post-2020

The project provides scientific advice to the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA/DEHSt) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment in evaluating, implementing nationally, and further developing the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Central topics of the analyses are the interaction of the EU ETS with energy and climate policies, the structural development of the EU ETS post-2020 and its...

Studies on Consumption Taxation 

The Public Economics Department develops and operates microsimulation models on consumption taxation. The models are based on representative scientific use files of the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS) and the Continuous Household Budget Survey for Germany (LWR). The data allows for assessing the consumption tax burden of private households. The models take into account behavioral responses in...

Studies on Ecological Tax Reform

The ecological tax reform integrates both economic incentives of environmental policy and tax reform issues. DIW Berlin participated in the policy debate since the early 90ies in Germany with several studies.