German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) | 31.03.2020Call for Proposals

GERPS is an innovative longitudinal study about the lives of internationally mobile German citizens. For the first time, GERPS offers researchers the opportunity to actively contribute to the study. With wave 4, we invite researchers to send their proposals for a short questionnaire module in GERPS.

GERPS launches the upcoming wave in November 2020. The study will thereby survey recent German emigrants and remigrants for the fourth time within two years. With wave 4, GERPS offers researchers the opportunity to include their own questions or short questionnaire modules. Proposals are welcome in German or English by the 24th of April 2020 in a preliminary version. More information about the proposal requirements can be found in the official Call for Proposals.

Data of the first wave available

GERPS is longitudinal panel survey of recently emigrated or remigrated German nationals. It aims to study how the lives of internationally mobile persons change shortly after migration. Interested researchers already have access to the Scientific Use File (SUF) of the first wave. Among other things, the first wave of GERPS focuses on persons’ lives before migration. This for example includes questions on migration motives, income, job and family. The SUF is accessible through the GESIS data archive. The Methodology Report of wave 1 documents the study design and survey process in detail.

GERPS is conducted in cooperation between the Federal Institute for Population Research and the University of Duisburg Essen. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).