The workshop emphasizes empirical research using survey and linked data on firms, employees, and households. New data resources from the SOEP research infrastructure will also be presented.

Submissions from economics, sociology, business administration, political science, and related disciplines are welcome until 1 September 2026.

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The variables will be included as a standard component of the upcoming SOEP-Core v42 release and will no longer need to be ordered separately.

With mighist, SOEP adopts the migration history concept used in Germany’s Microcensus, facilitating international comparability. Under this definition, a person is considered to have a migration history if either the person themselves or both parents immigrated to present-day Germany since 1950.

SOEP-RV is a joint project of the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance (FDZ-RV) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). The project was initiated and funded by the Research Network on Old-Age Security (FNA). It links data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with anonymized administrative records provided by the FDZ-RV.

Because the social security records cover long periods of individuals’ lives, the linked data offer unique opportunities for researchers to study issues such as long-term social inequality and the effects of policy reforms over the life course.

Further information on the datasets and data access is available from the FDZ-RV.