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Application Portal for the GC PhD Program 2023 Is Now Open

Start of the next application period for our PhD programm (cohort starting in 2023) began on November 14, 2022. The deadline is February 12, 2023. We look forward to your application! Apply here!

Economic sanctions: Coalitions increase the cost for the target and reduce own burden

What is the role of coalitions in enforcing sanctions? In a newly released study, researchers at IfW Kiel and DIW Berlin analyse the economic impact of jointly implementing punitive measures in the context of the 2012 Iran and 2014 Russia sanctions. They find that coalitions serve two crucial purposes -- they not only magnify the economic cost imposed on the target but also reduce domestic costs for ...

SOEPcampus Events Coming Up

Users have the possibility to participate in two upcoming SOEPcampus events. SOEPcampus@Lunch: From next month on we offer an online workshop series over lunchtime as introduction to the data of the SOEP study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview on the study documentation.To ...

Call for Papers - Special Issue on Regional Inequalities and Geospatial Data

We would like to draw your attention to a special issue on „Regional Development Dynamics and Their Social, Economic and Political Consequences“ that Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig and Prof. Dr. Simon Kühne are editing in the Social Sciences journal.We’re inviting contributions focusing on (but not limited to) one or more of the following themes: Theoretical or empirical reflections ...

Joint research project launched: IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey of 6,000 refugees from Ukraine

More than 950,000 refugees from Ukraine have sought protection in Germany since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. The project “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is the first com-prehensive, representative social science survey of this group. It is being conducted by the SOEP in partnership with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), the ...

Joint research project launched: IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey of 6,000 refugees from Ukraine

More than 950,000 refugees from Ukraine have sought protection in Germany since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. The project “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is the first comprehensive, representative social science survey of this group. It is being conducted by the SOEP in partnership with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), the ...

Ampel-Monitor Energiewende #2: The state of affairs on August 24, 2022

By Wolf-Peter Schill and Alexander Roth This page provides a brief overview of the current status of all indicators included in the Ampel-Monitor Energiewende. More detailed methodological explanations and data sources can be found on the homepage of the Ampel-Monitor and in the introductory DIW Weekly Report 27/2022. All underlying data are also available in the Open Energy Tracker, where they are ...

Register now for the two-day online workshop series "SOEPcampus@Home" - a practically oriented introduction to the data of the Socio-economic panel study (SOEP)

On August 25 and 26, 2022 the online workshop "SOEPcampus@Home" takes place again: This online two-day workshop offers a well-grounded and practically oriented introduction to the data of the Socio-economic panel study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview over the study ...

Who are the winners of this year's prizes awarded at the SOEP Conference 2022?

The SOEP Conference 2022 took place from June 30 to July 1, 2022 and was a great success. We were very happy to finally hold our bi-annual conference at DIW Berlin again after being postponed due to the pandemic. Events like this conference are an important part of scientific life and we are pleased that all participants were there to help make it a success. Of the about 80 participants from 9 different ...

The ECB must be an anchor of stability in the euro area now more than ever

Marcel Fratzscher, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), comments on the results of today’s meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB):

The new SOEP Annual Report is online!

Which SOEP projects were launched in 2021? What have researchers found out with our data? What additional data do we offer to our users? And what is new since we started working with the fieldwork institute infas? The report is available online free of charge. We would also be happy to send you a hard copy on request (soepmail@diw.de). Please download here

The new SOEP Annual Report is online!

Which SOEP projects were launched in 2021? What have researchers found out with our data? What additional data do we offer to our users? And what is new since we started working with the fieldwork institute infas? The report is available online free of charge. We would also be happy to send you a hard copy on request (soepmail@diw.de). Please download here

Why natural gas is not a bridge technology

The expansion of natural gas infrastructure jeopardises energy transition, as natural gas is not a bridge technology towards a 100% renewable energy system as defined by the Paris Climate Agreement. This is the result of a study conducted by an interdisciplinary German research team and published in the journal Nature Energy on 4 July 2022. The researchers have examined the natural gas issue from five ...

Electricity supply in Germany can be secured without Russian supplies and nuclear energy; the 2030 coal-phase out remains possible

The European Union has increased pressure on Russia by enacting a coal embargo. Following a transition period, Russian coal imports will end in August 2022. Recent studies show that Germany will be able to substitute Russian supplies with imports from other countries by summer 2022. However, with the looming threat of a Russian gas supply stop, plans must be developed to ensure security of supply....