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SOEP user Christina Felfe receives Heinz König Young Scholar Award

Personnel news of September 20, 2009

In 2009, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim presented the Heinz König Young Scholar Award for outstanding research work by young scholars to SOEP user Christina Felfe of the University of St. Gallen. She shares this year’s award with Alexander M. Danzer of the University of London. Felfe’s work deals with the question of what working conditions enable mothers to return to their career relatively quickly after having a baby, and demonstrates that the better the workplace conditions, the sooner women return to their workplace. Felfe also finds that job-related amenities have a significant financial value for employees. Thus, mothers whose employers allow them to adapt their working hours to their children’s childcare schedules are willing to accept as much as 30 percent lower income.

The prize is named after Heinz König, who was one of the first users of the SOEP survey—then referred to simply as “the panel”—and who played a crucially important role in SOEP as an expert advisor on Sample C. We are therefore especially pleased to see a SOEP user receive this award.

The paper has also been published as SOEPpaper 245 and can be downloaded under: http://www.diw.de/soeppapers.

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