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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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The SOEPnewsletter 88 (April 2010) is online now. SOEPnewsletter 88
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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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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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 recent years more and more of the scholarly journals that publish empirical papers using microdata stipulate that the microdata be submitted for archiving along with the paper itself. Making SOEP and CNEF data available for reanalysis while maintaining the highest levels of data protection, can present a major challenge-The Reseach Data Center of the SOEP is now offering users opportunities to make ...
28.09.2009
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We are pleased to inform you about the changes in the current dataset (1984-2008, wave Y) here or in the SOEPnewsletter 86.
28.09.2009
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We have found some bugs in the data distribution wave X (1984-2007).for more information see Research Data Center SOEP --> Changes in the Dataset -->Known Bugs/Fixes
28.07.2009
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The DIW Board of Trustees appointed the new SOEP Survey Committee. It will provide advice on the further development of the SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice.
28.07.2009
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Wave 25 (2008) data distribution to contain numerous new featuresJuly 2009The new data will be distributed in late fall 2009. The upcoming Wave 25 (2008) data distribution will include numerous improvements, additions, and modifications. The most important of these are listed in the following:We will provide an update and revision of the post-stratification scheme and an additional regional calibration ...
28.07.2009
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The Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in cooperation with the SOEP longitudinal study at DIW Berlin, is calling for applications for a W3 professorship(S professorship with reduced teaching load).Deadline: August 20, 2009to the job announcement
27.07.2009
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Publication
Available now: The Proceedings of the 8th International SOEP User Conference SOEP 2008 published in Schmollers Jahrbuch 129 (2). Please see the contents with links to abstracts and (access restricted) downloads.
27.07.2009