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On May 19, Alexander Kritikos has officially taken the office of Vice President of DIW Berlin. At the same time, he received the certificate of appointment for his professorship at Potsdam University. Kritikos was appointed by the Board of Trustees of DIW Berlin last March.In his office of Vice President, Alexander Kritikos will mainly be responsible for the scientific work of DIW Berlin. One priority ...
26.05.2010
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20.05.2010
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20.05.2010
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20.05.2010
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20.05.2010
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Mathis Schröder took over coordination of the project “Familien in Deutschland” (FID, families in Germany) in May 2010 as senior project manager. He studied economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and during this time also worked for SOEP as a student research assistant. In 2006 he attained his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY/USA. After working for six ...
06.05.2010
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03.05.2010
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Dominika Kalinowska, since 2004 researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment, successfully completed her dissertation on „Integrated passenger transport policy assessment within a computable general equilibrium framework" at the Technical University Berlin. The objective of the dissertation work was the integration of passenger travel demand within a General ...
30.04.2010
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29.04.2010
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SOEP user Richard A. Easterlin of the University of Southern California/USA was awarded the 2009 IZA Prize in Labor Economics in October of last year. He was recognized, according to the prize committee, for his “outstanding research on the analysis of subjective well-being and on the relationship between demographic developments and economic outcomes.” He has expanded traditional economic ...
15.04.2010
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Thomas Siedler makes the list 100 of important young economics. Every years since 2006, German newspaper Handelsblatt publishes a ranking of Germany’s most important young economics below the age of 40 years. This year, Thomas Siedler from the SOEP department has made the list—as well as some other SOEP users, e. g. Holger Görg (4), Ludger Wössmann (11), Markus Frölich (18), ...
15.04.2010
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Elke Holst was appointed to the advisory board of the project “Leadership development of women in large companies: reviewing the current situation, discussing perceived problems, and identifying potential solutions” (Führungskräfteentwicklung von Frauen in Großbetrieben: Bestandsaufnahme, Problemwahrnehmungen und Lösungsansätze), which is being carried out as part ...
15.04.2010
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DIW President, Klaus F. Zimmermann: „Fiscal consolidation is on top of the agenda.”The German economy is expected to show moderate growth for 2010 and 2011. According to the DIW economic outlook, GDP will increase by 1.7 in 2010 and by 1.8 percent in 2011. “We recover from the crisis. However, with respect to financial markets, high uncertainties remain.” said DIW President, ...
14.04.2010
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DIW President Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann appointed Prof. Rainer Fremdling as DIW Research Director for an initial period of three years with effect from April 30, 2010. The appointment was suggested by Prof. Dr. Alexander Kritikos, Head of the Department Innovation, Manufacturing, Service.
07.04.2010
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The SOEPnewsletter 88 (April 2010) is online now. SOEPnewsletter 88
31.03.2010
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31.03.2010
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DIW President Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann appointed Prof. Oleg Badunenko, Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS) as DIW Research Affiliate for an initial period of three years with effect from April 1, 2010. The appointment was suggested by Prof. Dr. Alexander Kritikos, Head of the Department Innovation, Manufacturing, Service.
31.03.2010
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Denis Huschka, permanent visiting fellow at SOEP, has become a member of the Editorial Review Board of the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life (ARQOL). ARQOL is published by Springer and is the official journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS).
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31.03.2010
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The SOEP team was happy to welcome Rainer Siegers on February 1, 2010. Having already helped to improve the basis for income analyses using SOEP data as a SOEP student intern in 2007, Rainer has since completed his Master of Science in Statistics at the Free University of Berlin and now joins us in a multi-year project on the collection of a new dataset on German families (Familien in Deutschland, ...
24.03.2010
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24.03.2010