In March/April 2026 our online over lunch seminar series returns with one last workshop this year. The workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) 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 ...
The call for papers for the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. SOEP 2026 will take place from July 8-9, 2026, in Berlin, and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. We particularly welcome contributions addressing meta-science, robustness, replicability, reproducibility, and open science. This includes, but is not limited to, studies ...
The European Union and India have agreed on a free trade agreement. Sonali Chowdhry, trade expert at DIW Berlin, comments on the significance of this agreement:
The SCP is a 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 (n=17,027). In addition to randomly selected anchor persons, the annual survey also targets their adult household members. The SCP is funded by the Federal Ministry of ...
The proportion of women on the executive and supervisory boards of Germany's largest companies has risen considerably since data collection for the DIW Women Executives Barometer began 20 years ago. While it was just over one percent on the executive boards of Germany's 200 highest-revenue companies in 2006, it is now around 19 percent. The proportion of women on supervisory boards in the top 200 group ...
The aim is to examine how the introduction of a guaranteed pension affects people with low net incomes, broken down by East and West, women and men, and year of birth.
The Pension Commission has the task of examining, by 2026, “a new indicator for an overall level of old-age provision across all three pension pillars.” This debate will also shape pension policy in 2026. With a study, we aim to contribute to this discussion. We examine which replacement rates insured persons aim for and how large the gap is between the target replacement rate and the replacement...
