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SOEPprize 2015: Is your publication eligible?

Best publications with SOEP data in 2013 and 2014Please check if your publications are registered in our database and send the missing ones. The "Society of Friends of DIW Berlin" (Vereinigung der Freunde des DIW Berlin, VdF) sponsors a prize to honor the best publications based on SOEP-data. This prize honors the very best scientific publication, the best scientific publication by a junior researcher ...

SOEP User Survey 2014 - Thank you for your participation

Between October 17 and November 14, 2014, a number of SOEP users were kind enough to participate in this year’s SOEP User Survey and give us feedback about our services and infrastructure work. We would like to again thank all those who took the time to support our efforts at continually improving our services. We are very pleased to be able to rely on a stable user community for our annual ...

SOEP-IS: ESM now in the field

As a new technical feature, the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) is now being tested with 111 smart phones that were purchased for use in the 2014 SOEP-IS survey. In the current fieldwork phase, the ESM is being used with around 250 respondents, who are asked questions about how they are currently feeling seven times a day on seven subsequent days. Respondents are given the smart phones for this period ...

Jürgen Schupp appointed to the advisory board of ZBW

SOEP Director Jürgen Schupp was appointed to the advisory board of the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. As a service infrastructure of the Leibniz Association, the ZBW runs the German National Library of Economics, the world’s largest information center for economic literature, online as well as offline at its locations in Kiel and Hamburg. During the 2015 – 2017 appointment ...

SOEP and IAB create database to evaluate minimum wage

Starting in January 2015, researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) research infrastructure at DIW Berlin will, together with colleagues from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and the University of Potsdam, be making data available for evaluation of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. They will not only be analyzing the data themselves but also providing them for ...

GC Application Procedure Started

The link to the GC Online Application Form has been activated! From now on, the GC welcomes outstanding students from around the world to apply for our doctoral program. Please note the application deadline is March 31. If you have any inquiries concerning the application, please feel free to contact our colleague Nadin Gahrns (gradcenter@diw.de). We will inform candidates on interview appointments ...

Sovereign Risk, Interbank Freezes, and Aggregate Fluctuations

This paper studies the bank-sovereign link in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with strategic default on public debt. Heterogeneous banks give rise to an interbank market where government bonds are used as collateral. A default penalty arises from a breakdown of interbank intermediation that induces a credit crunch. Government borrowing under limited commitment is costly ex ante as bank ...

Demographic Change and Welfare State Restructuring

Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on investment (usually defined as medium and long-term consumption, such as education, or investment into housing or business), on average leads to an increase in short-term consumption, mostly food. In this paper, a simple household-level model determining the migration decision is developed ...

Is Car Drivers' Response to Congestion Charging Schemes Based on the Correct Perception of Price Signals?

This paper deals with the question of whether the capability of car drivers to estimate the cost of a new hypothetical, highly differentiated congestion charge influences their decision to change travel behaviour. The analysis makes use of an integrated choice and latent variable model (ICLV) which merges classic choice models with the structural equation approach (SEM) for latent variables. This hybrid ...