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The innovative modules for the 2014 SOEP-IS data collection have now been selected. We will be able to include 16 out of a total of 41 proposals submitted. In the process of data collection for SOEP-IS 2014, we will also be purchasing 111 smart phones for further research on the well-being and life satisfaction of SOEP-IS respondents. For this, we will use the experience sampling method (ESM), a ...
11.07.2014
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The SOEPnewsletter 105/ July 2014 is published.It gives information aboutnew developments in the research about inequality the data distribution of SOEP-IS data as well asour offer to bring your research question into the Innovation Sample the analysis about the sensivity of some variables Sensitivitätsanalysen für die gemeinsame Nutzung von SOEP und FiD upcoming events and past conferencesthe ...
30.06.2014
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Interview
Axel Glemser is the new director in charge of SOEP at TNS Infratest Sozialforschung in Munich. He took up this new position on May 1, 2014. We had the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Glemser in Berlin and ask him a few questions. What are your responsibilities in your new job? I’m responsible for all the data collection work done by TNS Infratest on behalf of DIW Berlin. That means everything ...
30.06.2014
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If you want to attend the SOEP 2014 Conference in Berlin (June 30 - July 1, 2014): don't forget to register!Please visit the conference Website at www.diw.de/soep2014 toget inspired by our short new video clip (conference teaser)study the scientific programm with 60 presentationsand register online (deadline is Monday, June 16, 2014)Hope to see you soon in Berlin.
13.06.2014
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The program of the 11th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is available online now.60 presentations based on SOEP data will be given in 14 parallel sessions. The topics include health, income distribution, intergenerational studies and many more. Patricia McManus and Jaques Silber are the keynote speakers and two poster sessions provide more research results. The online program ...
29.04.2014
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Using the German Socio-Economic Panel with Understanding Society in cross-national comparative researchThis course is an initiative to promote cross-national comparative research on the basis of Understanding Society and one of its European sister studies, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). It is directed at new users of Understanding Society who will learn about similarities and differences in ...
29.04.2014
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The workshop concludes the project “Neighbourhood effects: Analysis of individual rational behaviour in a social context”. The project consortium consists of RWI, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the University of Melbourne.The aim of the project is to geo-reference existing micro-level data sets, e.g. the SOEP ...
17.04.2014
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The SOEPmonitors with numerical series for chosen indicators have been just published. Differentiated for individuals (SOEPmonitor Person) and households (SOEPmonitor Household) they offer an important reference point to evaluate the results of your own research.More information
14.04.2014
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The SOEPnewsletter 104/ April 2014 is online.It gives information aboutthe meaning of SOEP-Core an update to the SOEP dataset v29new datasets ready for distributionthe potentials of the new SOEPinfo v2results of the SOEP User Survey 2013Call for Papers for the ISQOLS 2014 in Berlin interesting publications with the SOEP... and many more.
01.04.2014
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Personnel news
Daniel Schnitzlein received an appointment to a junior professorship in economics, in particular education economics, at the University of Hannover starting in summer semester 2014. Daniel has accepted the appointment, but will continue to work at the SOEP on a part-time basis. He has held a guest professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg since 2013. Daniel joined the ...
01.04.2014
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Personnel news
Carsten Schröder is new Head of the division Applied Panel Analysis at the SOEP since 1 March. He is one of three Deputy Directors of SOEP. Schröder was jointly appointedto Professor of Empirical Economic Research (W3) by DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.Before his engagement at the SOEP he was Assistant Professor at the university in Kiel. His main field of research is finance, ...
31.03.2014
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Personnel news
Gert G. Wagner is the new Chair of the Social Advisory Council to the German federal government. He was appointed to the 12-member advisory body by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Andrea Nahles, following a decision of the federal government. The Council’s primary task is to advise the German government and its legislative bodies on questions of pension policy and old-age security ...
30.03.2014
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Personnel news
Katharina Poschmann started working in the SOEP in mid-March. She will be covering for Simone Bartsch in the PIAAC-L project during her maternity leave as of May. Katharina studied sociology at the University of Bremen and worked for several years at Prognos AG as a research associate.
29.03.2014
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Personnel news
Maria Metzing has been working on a project as part of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) as a doctoral student since mid-January. Before this, she worked at DIW Berlin for one year as a student assistant in the SOEP-IS. In December, she completed her master’s degree in economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her master’s thesis, “Have the New Fathers Arrived Yet? ...
28.03.2014
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Personnel news
At the proposal of the Presidium of the Leopoldina and of the Standing Committee of Leopoldina, acatech and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Gert G. Wagner was appointed as a member of the Leopoldina's Working Group "Scientific and Socio-Political Importance of Population-Based Longitudinal Studies."
The Leopldina was appointed as the German National Academy of Sciences ...
28.03.2014
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Personnel news
Knut Wenzig has been working on the data and metadata management team in the Research Data Center SOEP since February. Knut has a Diplom degree in social sciences and worked previously in the National Educational Panel Survey (NEPS, University of Bamberg), where he was responsible for documentation and jointly responsible for development of a metadata system. His main field of interest is in metadata-driven ...
28.03.2014
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Personnel news
Simon Kühne joined the SOEP as a doctoral student in mid-February and is working in the area of survey research on the SAW project "SOEP-REC-LINK" with the IAB-SOEP migration sample. Simon Kühne studied sociology and completed his master’s degree in survey methodology in January at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Alongside his studies, Simon Kühne worked in the Chair of Empirical ...
27.03.2014
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Personnel news
Anita Kottwitz began working as a research associate on the project “Household and Family Structures as a Context for Employment Trajectories” (Project AP11 in the soeb3 research association) in mid-February. Anita is a doctoral student at the international Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE) and will complete her doctoral studies this summer.
27.03.2014
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The SOEP based at DIW Berlin is seeking a Post-Doc or Research Associate(full-time or part-time)in the field of empirical labor market economics starting on May 1, 2014.Please see the details and the link to the online application form athttp://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.439647.en Deadline for application is March 31, 2014.
13.03.2014
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Personnel news
Michael Weinhardt left the SOEP on January 1, 2014. He is now working as a research associate at the University of Bielefeld on the German contribution to the European Social Survey, which is under the charge of Stefan Liebig. Michael completed his doctoral thesis on “The influence of values on occupational choice and the intergenerational transmission of inequality” and will be defending ...
28.02.2014