Marco Gießelmann joined the SOEP team end of May. He is involved in managing biography and life history data. Moreover, he is our new contact person for the user-training program SOEP@campus. Marco has a degree in Sociology (University of Bielefeld) and worked at the University of Cologne as research assistant at the Chair for Empirical Social and Economic Research. His recent work focuses ...
Differing methods of calculation explain recent discrepancies between OECD/DIW Berlin poverty figures According to recent estimates by DIW Berlin, children and young adults were the group most severely affected by poverty in Germany in the year 2009. DIW Berlin rejects claims that it manipulated or withheld statistical data on poverty. “These accusations are false,” said Gert G. Wagner, ...
The SOEPnewsletter no. 92 / April 2011 is published.You will find information aboutnew developments in the SOEP studysome changes in the SOEP teamand many new presentations and publications
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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, ...