To improve our SOEP user services, we are again conducting a user survey up to November 14. We are very interested in both the fresh viewpoints of new SOEP users and the insights of our longtime users. This year—among other subjects of the survey—we would like your opinions about our new metadata portal SOEPinfo v.2. If you have not yet participated in our online survey, we invite you to ...
It’s now even easier to order the data from the SOEP-related study “Familien in Deutschland” (FiD, Families in Germany), now available in its fourth wave. All SOEP users with a valid contract can order the FiD data in the usual ways (SOEPhotline, online form, fax form) without needing to sign any additional data distribution contracts. The dataset is available upon request for free ...
John Haisken-DeNew is Professor of Economics and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, he came to Germany in 1988 first as a research assistant, then as a doctoral student. In 1996, he joined the Socio-Economic Panel at DIW Berlin and remained until 2002. His research interests range from...
We here present the earliest input–output table of Germany: It covers forty economic branches, five final demand categories, and five primary inputs. The symmetric table for 1936 is completely based on original statistical data and does not rely on separate supply and use tables. The core of our endeavor is based on the German industrial census of 1936. The input–output table offers a new benchmark ...
The use of log-transformed data has become standard in macroeconomic forecasting with VAR models. However, its appropriateness in the context of out-of-sample forecasts has not yet been exposed to a thorough empirical investigation. With the aim of filling this void, a broad sample of VAR models is employed in a multi-country set up and approximately 42 Mio. pseudo-out-of-sample forecasts of GDP are ...
In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household market income inequality in Germany in the second half of the 2000s. We analyse to what extent the increasing relevance of capital income as well as the rising share of atypically employed persons have affected the development of income inequality over the last two decades. We use household data from the German ...
Using both household and linked employer-employee data for Germany, we assess the effects of non-union representation in the form of works councils on (1) individual sickness absence rates and (2) a subjective measure of personnel problems due to sickness absence as perceived by a firm's management. We find that the existence of a works council is positively correlated with the incidence and the annual ...
