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Research Project
There is increasing consensus in the economic and social sciences that the workplace plays a crucial role in individual life outcomes. This is true in the economic and sociological labor market research, network and social capital research, health research, the research on educational and competency acquisition processes, wage information, and the work-life interface, as well as in the inequality...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The principal output from the project will be new findings on economic and social determinants of preferences for redistribution, attitudes towards immigration, and political party affinities and voting patterns in Germany and the United Kingdom. The project is interdisciplinary in nature and is related to both the economic and political science literature. The core aim of the programme is to...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Sustainability policy has to consider the interdependencies of human life and nature; it has to meet the high moral standards of intra- and intergenerational justice set by the Brundtland Commission in 1987; and, finally, it has to motivate people to behave accordingly. This is quite a challenging task that often is responded to in a too simplistic way. Current sustainability science and civic...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Australia has begun investing heavily in the collection of population‑wide longitudinal survey data. Most of that effort has focused first on collection and dissemination and second on analysis, with scant attention paid to the quality of data collected. This is unfortunate given that longitudinal surveys exhibit many problems (e.g., attrition, panel conditioning, and seam effects) that are not...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Berlin network composed of DZA, SOEP and DRV-Bund is conducting a joint research project which will run until 2012 dealing with life courses and their effects on the old age provision of baby boomers. This project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in the program "Individual and Societal Perspectives of Aging" (link to PDF-file).
The biographies of the German Baby boomers (born between 19...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
"Underachievement" is a well-established educational research field. However, both longitudinal and interdisciplinary studies on the interplay between individuals' learning potential and educational attainment are rare, as are analyses of life course consequences of underachievement. This psychological, sociological, and economic longitudinal study aims to contribute to our knowledge of social...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
This research initiative is supported by the Leibniz Association within the "Pakt für Forschung und Innovation". The network consists of a co-operation of economic and psychological expertise of leading European research institutions (Centre for the Economics of Education at the London School of Economics; German Socio-Economic Panel Study at the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin;...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Using representative microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we work on three research projects that cover the whole process of the intergenerational transmission of resources and abilities across the life course, focusing on a variety of outcome measures.Project 1: Intergenerational transmission of parental resources and social status (Olaf Groh-Samberg, Henning Lohmann,...
Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
AIM-AP was an integrated programme of research and development funded by the European Commission (Sixth Framework Programme) aimed at improving the comparability, scope and applicability of tools, methods and data for the measurement of income and the analysis of the effects of policies on inequality, poverty and social inclusion. It started in February 2006 and finished in January 2009.
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Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study