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28.02.2011
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On February 11, the DIW Board of Trustees appointed Gert G. Wagner to serve as Chairman of the Executive Board for the next almost two years. Prof. Dr. Wagner's previous Deputy Heads, PD Dr. Joachim Frick and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp, will take over as Interim Heads of the SOEP during this period. Since Joachim Frick is currently ill, Jürgen Schupp will initially carry this responsibility ...
11.02.2011
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On February 11, the DIW Board of Trustees appointed Gert G. Wagner to serve as Chairman of the Executive Board for the next almost two years. Prof. Dr. Wagner's previous Deputy Heads, PD Dr. Joachim Frick and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp, will take over as Interim Heads of the SOEP during this period. Since Joachim Frick is currently ill, Jürgen Schupp will initially carry this responsibility ...
11.02.2011
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10.02.2011
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Board of Trustees will decide on personnel proposals on 11 FebruaryRearrangement of the management structure at DIW Berlin: Gert G. Wagner is to serve as the new Chairman of the Executive Board. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Bert Rürup, will propose the Head of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin to the Board of Trustees on 11 February. Gert Wagner is supposed to take up the ...
04.02.2011
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Statement of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of DIW Berlin, Bert RürupThe scientific work of DIW Berlin and its role in providing policy-advice have to be shifted back again into the center of public awareness. Contrary to public criticism, which has been immoderate in many cases, DIW Berlin still is one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany and beyond.
01.02.2011
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13.01.2011
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11.01.2011
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11.01.2011
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11.01.2011
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Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment in DIW Berlin, is the new Ambassador for Ecology of the foundation for the Stiftung für Ökologie und Demokratie e.V. ”We have chosen Prof. Claudia Kemfert as our ambassador for 2011 because she friendly and relentlessly promotes the preservation of the ecology”, reasoned the head of the foundation, ...
07.01.2011
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There was a problem in the assignment of the correct current household number in 3% of the children in the generated longitudinal dataset KIDLONG. The variable HHNRAKT has been corrected accordingly. In addition, the data in the variable K_NRKID for survey year 1987 have changed for child 397403.Here, the "number of children in the HH below the age of 16" went from 1 to 2.Please contact ...
07.01.2011
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The new SOEPnewsletter No. 91/2011 is available now! We have good news: The main SOEP sample will be increased to about 3,000 households in 2011. Our fieldwork organization TNS Infratest Sozialforschung of the last 26 years will continue to work with us, they won the Europe-wide tender for a ten-year contract. The SOEP has been given greater autonomy: it is no longer a regular department but a “research ...
22.12.2010
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We are pleased to welcome a new member of the SOEP team: Anika Rasner will be working on the project LAW (Lebenswandel und Alterssicherung im Wandel, lifestyle and retirement provisions in changing times), financed by the VW Foundation, in which DIW Berlin is working together with the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA) and the German Pension Insurance Fund. Her main activities will be to perform ...
21.12.2010
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Jens Ambrasat is currently working with the SOEP survey group for three months as a research associate. After completing his Magister in Philosophy, Sociology, and Economics, he worked from 2007 to 2010 as a research associate in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Jens Ambrasat worked in the SOEP previously, from June to October 2010, as a guest researcher. ...
21.12.2010
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Nicolas Ziebarth was selected as a recipient of the NRW Young Scientist Award 2010 in the category of Economics. The €1,500 prize was awarded by the NRW Research Schools, a network of institutions for young scientists founded as an initiative of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was conferred in nine different scientific disciplines at an awards ceremony at the Academy of ...
21.12.2010
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Nicolas Ziebarth was selected from numerous applicants by Berlin’s Senator for Culture and Science, Jürgen Zöllner, to participate in ”Encounters in Berlin: Third Interdisciplinary Workshop for xcellent Young Professionals in Berlin” in February 2011. At the interface of science, finance, arts, and culture, “Encounters Berlin” brings together More information ...
21.12.2010
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Denis Gerstorf, Research Affiliate at DIW Berlin and Assistant Professor for Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State University, has been awarded with the "Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging". This Award is designed to honor an individual whose work has made significant early career contributions to understanding critical issues in ...
07.12.2010
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