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.
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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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, ...
DIW President Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann appointed Dr. David Stephen Saal, Aston Business School as DIW Research Professor for an initial period of three years with effect from January 1, 2010. The appointment was suggested by Prof. Dr. Alexander Kritikos, Head of the Department Innovation, Manufacturing, Service.
Dr. Oleg Badunenko holds the Junior Professorship for Applied Econometrics in the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at University of Cologne. Dr. Oleg Badunenko is a Research Associate in the Department Innovation, Manufacturing, Service.
Dr. Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke graduated with a PhD degree from the Techniche Universität Berlin, Germany. His thesis „ Technology, Firm Performance and Market Structure" was examined by the professors Andreas Stephan, Europa Universität Viadrina und Christian von Hirschhausen, TU-Berlin.
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 ...
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 ...