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Broadband and Productivity: Structural Estimates for Germany

We employ a control function methodology, complemented by various identification strategies, to causally estimate the heterogeneous effects of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) across 46 two-digit manufacturing and service industries in Germany from 2010 to 2015. Throughout this period, the availability of broadband, defined as access to transmission rates of at least ...

Lab² Incubator for Collaborative and Transparent Economic Sciences

Lab2 (Lab Square) is a hub for replicability and meta-science. Its mission is to enhance the credibility of scientific findings in economics and to support the field in conducting collaborative research grounded in best scientific practices. To achieve this, the project group engage in research, education, and knowledge transfer. These activities are carried out in close collaboration with a...

Active pension provides tax relief for working pensioners

Active Pension Mainly Relieves Higher-Earning Pensioners; Employment Effects Are Uncertain

The new German federal government coalition is planning a significant tax break for workers of retirement age: the active pension (Aktivrente). With the active pension, workers who have reached the statutory retirement age may earn up to 2,000 euros a month tax-free, a move that the government is hoping will motivate more pensioners to work longer to counteract the skilled worker shortage. Microsimulation ...

Policy Change and Women’s and Men’s Earnings around Divorce: Evidence from the German Maintenance Reform

This paper examines the gendered impact of divorce on earnings and the role of the social policy context in shaping this relationship. In particular, it focuses on a policy reform enacted in Germany in 2008 that overturned previous ex-spousal support rules. Data come from the administrative records of the German Public Pension Fund. Drawing on a fixed- effects model, we study the behaviour of women ...

Laura Pagenhardt has successfully defended her dissertation

Laura Pagenhardt, Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Policy in Practice: Communication, Rules, and Income Inequality - Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics” on June 26, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Alexander Kriwoluzky and Marcel Fratzscher. Congratulations!

Hannah Seidl has successfully defended her dissertation

Hannah Seidl, Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Essays in Macroeconomics” with summa cum laude on June 26, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Lutz Weinke and Marcel Fratzscher. Congratulations!

SOEP-Core-Daten 1984–2023 (v40) ab jetzt erhältlich 

All registered data users can now order the latest data v40 (DOI: 10.5684/soep.core.v40eu) via our online order form. In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder Important news for v40: New samples: With the migration sample M8c and the refugee sample M9, two new samples were added to the SOEP data in cooperation with IAB and BAMF. Several data set errors ...

New Dataset: SOEP-Core Data 1984-2023 (v40) available now

All registered data users can now order the latest data v40 (DOI: 10.5684/soep.core.v40eu) via our online order form. In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder Important news for v40: New samples: With the migration sample M8c and the refugee sample M9, two new samples were added to the SOEP data in cooperation with IAB and BAMF. Several data set errors ...