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The department Energy, Transportation, Environment welcomes the doctoral Students Felix Groba and Aleksandar Zaklan. Starting on September 1st, Mr. Felix Groba will join the team ”Sustainability Policies and Measures”. He focusses on the analysis of potentials for renewable energy expansion. Mr. Aleksandar Zaklan will work in the research area “Empirical Market Analyses” to ...
02.09.2009
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On September 1 the department Information Society and Competition welcomes the doctoral Students Beatrice Pagel und Andreas Harasser.
01.09.2009
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Dr. Christian Schmitt (SOEP) has spent July to September 2009 as a visiting fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut/USA.
29.08.2009
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Last week, Alan S. Zuckerman, Professor of Political Science at Brown University (USA) and Research Professor at DIW Berlin passed away. Zuckerman, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and taught and conducted research at the Universities of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Florence, Pisa, New York, and Stanford, died at the age of just 64. He was associated with DIW Berlin and in particular with the ...
28.08.2009
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DIW Berlin's new website is online. We show a snapshot of all important new features.
25.08.2009
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20.08.2009
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Dr. Olaf Groh-Samberg (SOEP) has been appointed to the Junior Professorship in Sociology with a focus in education, the labor market, and social inequality in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Bremen starting in August 2009. The Junior Professorship is part of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). Olaf will maintain his connection to SOEP as a DIW ...
20.08.2009
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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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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
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From 1 Juni 2009 on there are three new Research Affiliates in the Department of Innovation, Manufacturing, Service for the next three years:Hani Mansour, Department of Economics an der Universitiy of California, Santa BarbaraMarco Caliendo, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)Jonathan H.W. Tan, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham
24.07.2009
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23.07.2009
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The General Assembly of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) has elected Joachim R. Frick Member of the LIS-Executive Council for the period 2009-2013.The Luxembourg Income Study is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg.The LIS archive contains two primary databases:The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database combines datasets from over 30 countries and contains income data supplemented by ...
22.07.2009
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This book integrates the fundamentals of monetary theory, monetary policy theory and financial market theory, providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the many-sided interrelations between these fields of research. It provides the reader with the intellectual groundwork indispensable for understanding the workings and interactions of today’s globalised financial markets. The ...
17.07.2009
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Nicolaus Ziebarth, Ph.D. student at the department German Socio-Economic Panel Study, became an external member of the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) of the Health Economics Resource Centre at the University of York (UK).HEDG
17.07.2009
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15.07.2009
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C. Katharina Spiess will be spending July and August 2009 at the Center for Research on Families at the University of Washington, Seattle/USA in the framework of a DFG guest research grant. She will be studying questions of early childhood care and indicators of child development.
10.07.2009
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12.06.2009