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11.01.2010
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In 2010, Joachim R. Frick and Jürgen Schupp, deputy directors of the Department German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP), will participate in the working groups “Research Data,” “Hosting/Long-term Archiving,” and “Information competency/Training” within the Working Committee “Information Infrastructure” of the Leibniz Association on commission from ...
22.12.2009
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In December 2009 Elisabeth Birkner joined the SOEP Survey Group as Junior Survey Manager. She completed a degree in Sociology at University of Leipzig. After graduation she worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Chair for Sociology and Methodology at the University of Leipzig and served for four years as a Research Fellow in the project “Labour Market Integration: Ethnic Germans and Jewish Immigrants ...
22.12.2009
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Mark Bryan from the Institute for Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex visited the SOEP from December 14-18, 2009, as guest of the SOEP-ISER Exchange Program. In addition to working with the SOEP data, he presented his research project on "Access to Flexible Working and Informal Care" in the SOEP "Brown Bag" Seminar on December 16, 2009.The next SOEP- ISER exchange will take place from ...
21.12.2009
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Karl Ulrich Mayer will take office as the new president of the Leibniz Association, replacing current president Ernst Th. Rietschel on July 1, 2010. Mayer, a longtime friend and supporter of the SOEP study, is currently Stanley B. Resor Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Yale University (USA). Prior to accepting his appointment at Yale in 2005, he spent many years as Director of ...
18.12.2009
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DIW Berlin engaged once more in the scientific exchange of PhD students and post docs. For three years now, Dr. Franziska Holz, researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment, has been organizing the regular meetings of young scholars from economic, political and engineering sciences that do research on natural gas markets. After meetings for example in Moscow, Oxford and Berlin, ...
18.12.2009
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18.12.2009
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The prestigious 2010 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation has been awarded to Ulman Lindenberger, Director of the Research Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Research Professor of the department "Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP)" at the DIW Berlin. This is the second consecutive year that the coveted Leibniz Prize ...
14.12.2009
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In December 2009 Elisabeth Birkner joined the SOEP Survey Group as Junior Survey Manager. She completed a degree in Sociology at University of Leipzig. After graduation she worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Chair for Sociology and Methodology at the University of Leipzig and served for four years as a Research Fellow in the project “Labour Market Integration: Ethnic Germans and Jewish Immigrants ...
01.12.2009
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27.11.2009
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DIW President Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann appointed Prof. Juan de Dios Ortuzar, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics as DIW Research Professor for an intiial period of three years with effect from December 1. The appointment was suggested by Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment.
18.11.2009
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Dr. Franziska Holz, researcher in the department Energy, Transporation, Environment, won the 2nd Prize of the German Association for Energy Economics (GEE/Energieforum Berlin) for her dissertation "Modeling the European Natural Gas Market - Static and Dynamic Perspectives of an Oligopolistic Market". The thesis shows that the completion of the Single European Market for natural gas is not ...
11.11.2009
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A new research center devoted to the evaluation of climate policies opens today in Berlin. The center is a branch of the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), an international research organization currently being established by George Soros. The Berlin center is the first to be up and running; addi-tional centers are planned for Peking, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and Ven-ice. Housed within DIW Berlin, ...
11.11.2009
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The shipping of the DVD containing the SOEP data 1984-2008 (wave Y) just started. 25 waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data are available for Euro 30,- (plus shipping costs) within EEA.If you want to get the data, you have to have a data distribution contract and have to order the data.More information about our conditionsOrder formUnfortunately shortly after completing the DVD, errors in data generation ...
09.11.2009
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In October 2009 Petra Zloczysti joined the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing, Service as a new research affiliate. She's going to work closely together with the innovation team.
02.11.2009
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The most prestigious German research prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of DFG (German Research Foundation) for 2009 was recently conferred on SOEP User Armin Falk (University of Bonn) for his research, “which has set standards in the behavioral economic research and in the economic sciences as a whole.” Among the eleven Leibniz prizes awarded in 2009, only two go to researchers ...
01.11.2009