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DIW Energy Transition Monitor: Large-Scale Batteries Make a Leap Forward, While Renewables and Electric Mobility Are Progressing Too Slowly

Energy Transition Monitor: Momentum Is Still Insufficient for the Expansion of Renewables, Electrification, and Storage

Electricity generation from solar and wind energy is set to expand massively in Germany in order to replace fossil fuels through electrification across all sectors. The DIW Energy Transition Monitor paints a mixed picture for the first half of 2026: Renewable energy is expanding, but must be accelerated further to meet 2030 targets. This includes photovoltaics: Despite earlier successes, it is currently ...

Industrial Relations and Working From Home in Germany During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2020 to 2023 and a special COVID sample (SOEP-CoV) for 2020 and 2021, we examine how collective bargaining and plant-level co-determination are associated with the incidence and frequency of working from home. Controlling ...

Confidence-Based End-to-End Extraction of Large Historical Economic Tables with LLMs

Optical document recognition has made great progress in recent years. However, large historical tables still pose substantial challenges because of poor scan quality, irregular layouts, and the sheer number of table cells. Table transcription tools perform well on small tables but struggle with large ones. Most publications report transcription quality on benchmark data sets. From a practical perspective, ...

SOEP-Core – 2015-2016: CAMCES (M1/M2)

SOEP-Core – 2017-2019: CAMCES (M1/M2)

SOEP-LEE2: Data Updates and New Research Opportunities

The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer–Employee Survey, Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2), provides linked information on employees, establishments, and self-employed individuals in Germany. An earlier Data Observer article (Matiaske, Wenzel, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, M. Maas, D. Holtmann, C. Schröder, et al. 2024. “SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany.” Jahrbücher ...

Following mass layoffs: income losses among manufacturing workers are high when they switch both to the services sector and to a service occupation

Employment in the Context of Structural Change: Same Occupations, Different Sectors

The loss of manufacturing jobs in Germany is often viewed with great concern. While many manufacturing jobs are being lost in the manufacturing sector, new jobs with similar profiles are appearing in service firms. These new jobs offset about two-thirds of those lost in manufacturing industries between 1975 and 2019. If laid-off workers can switch to a new job involving similar tasks, their loss of ...

Does an Aging Capital Stock Adversely Affect Productivity?

The capital stock in Germany and other advanced economies has been aging persistently since 1970s, raising concerns about its implications for productivity, economic growth, and resilience. This study investigates the relationship between capital stock modernity and productivity dynamics using a panel dataset covering 24 European countries between 1997 and 2020. We employ a panel local projections ...