Category Archives: Network Courses

Workshop ‘Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels, des FDZ der Statistischen Laendesaemter und des IAB’ (‘Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), data of the RDC of the Statistical Offices of the Laender, and of IAB’)

The workshop will give basic information on available micro data. The presentations at the workshop will describe available data, give empirical examples and will point out the research potentials of the data. Representatives of all presenting institutions will be available during the workshop, providing an excellent basis for discussions on the data, networking and socializing.

Both, experienced researcher and beginners in the field are addressed by this workshop.

The workshop language is German. The workshop will be held on 10-11.June 2013 in the Congress Centre of the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg.

Further information: http://fdz.iab.de/de/FDZ_Events/datenws2013.aspx

 

IAB Workshop – Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels, der amtlichen Statistik und des IAB

 

Der Workshop wird am 10. und 11. Juni 2013 in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Bamberg (NEPS, BAGSS), dem FDZ der statistischen Ämter der Länder und dem SAMF e.V. vom IAB veranstaltet.

Im Mittelpunkt steht die Vorstellung verschiedener Mikrodatensätze, die für die Forschung in den letzten Jahren zugänglich gemacht wurden. Neben der Vorstellung der Daten soll ihr Potential anhand exemplarischer Forschungsbeispiele und weiterer Forschungsmöglichkeiten aufgezeigt werden. Die Datenproduzenten stehen für  Fragen und Diskussionen rund um die Datensätze zur Verfügung. Damit bietet der Workshop auch für Forschungseinsteiger eine gute Möglichkeit zur Orientierung und Vernetzung.

Der Workshop ist für alle Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler zu empfehlen, die aktiv mit den Mikrodaten in naher Zukunft arbeiten wollen bzw. ein Arbeiten in Erwägung ziehen.

Vorgestellt werden u.a. folgende Datensätze:

  • BHP – Betriebshistorikpanel
  • Hochschul- und Berufsbildungsdaten der amtlichen Statistik
  • EGS – IAB-Erhebung des Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Stellenangebots (Dr. Anja Kettner)
  • IAB Betriebspanel (Dr. Susanne Kohaut)
  • LIAB – The linked employer-employee dataset of the IAB
  • lidA – leben in der Arbeit  (Angela Rauch)
  • NEPS – Nationales Bildungspanel (Dr. Corinna Kleinert  und  Dr. Jan Skopek)
  • PASS – Panel Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung (Dr. Gerrit Müller)
  • SIAB – Stichprobe aus den Integrierten Erwerbsbiographien

Weitere Informationen zu den Daten finden Sie unter:
http://fdz.iab.de/de/FDZ_Events/DatenWS2013.aspx

HSU-Hamburg: Workshop “Assoziationsberechnungen mit der Cosmas 2 Textdadenbank”

Institution: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg – Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Referent: Manfred Wettler (Nationaluniversität Bogotá und Universität
Paderborn)

Date: 29.05.2013, 10:00 – ca. 16:00 Uhr Bitte beachten Sie den geänderten Termin!

Ort: HSU Hamburg, Holstenhofweg 85 (Anfahrt)

Raum: wird noch bekannt gegeben

Inhalte: COSMAS II (http://www.ids-mannheim.de/cosmas2/) steht für Corpus Search, Management and Analysis System und ist eine am Deutschen Institut für Sprache (IDS) konzipierte Volltextdatenbank für das linguistisch motivierte Recherchieren in den Textsammlungen (=Korpora) des IDS. Die Größe der IDS-Korpora erlaubt, seltene Fälle eines Wortgebrauchs ausfindig zu machen, die Vielfalt der deutschen Wortkompositionen (Faden – Beziehungsfäden-Zieherei) einzubeziehen, mittels Statistiken (Kookkurrenz-Analyse) starke Wortverbindungen, geläufige Assoziationen und syntaktische Muster des Gebrauchs von Wörtern zu identifizieren, zeitliche und kontextuelle Schwankungen in der Verwendung von Wörtern zu entdecken, neue Wörter oder neue Bedeutungen von vorhandenen Wörtern (Neologismen) zu extrahieren, Recherchen auf spezielle Textuntermengen einzugrenzen (Texte nach dem 11. Sept. 2001; Belletristik der 90er; etc.), das erste Auftreten von festen Wortverbindungen (z.B. roter Faden) oder Termini (z.B. Bundeskanzlerin) zu lokalisieren und deren Gebrauch zeitlich zu verfolgen, eine Erklärung zu erhalten für Wörter wie präsumptuos, die Sie in einem Wörterbuch vielleicht nicht finden, gesellschaftliche Trends anhand des Vokabulars zu erfassen, die Variabilität grammatikalischer Satzgefüge aufzufächern.

Der Workshop beschäftigt sich u.a. mit der Frage: Warum sind Wortassoziationen wichtig? Dabei werden Wortassoziationen und Konkurrenzen und lernpsychologische Erklärungen betrachtet. Anhand der COSMAS II besteht die Möglichkeit, sich einen Korpus selbst zusammenzustellen und zu analysieren.

Anmeldung: Bitte melden Sie sich für den Workshop über die Lernplattform Ilias an.

GESIS: Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists

“Please find enclosed the link to detailed information about the course ‘Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists’.
The course will be given at GESIS in Cologne, Germany by Dr. Martin Elff on September 23–27, 2013.

The seminar is designed to help bridging the gap between school-level mathematics and mathematical knowledge needed to understand advanced statistical data reduction techniques in depth. You will be introduced to (or invited to ‘revisit’) essentials of e.g. the algebra of vectors and matrices, solving linear equations etc. and then arrive at understanding the mathematical background of derivatives of matrix and vector functions, the geometry of linear regression and principal components.

At the same time, you will learn the mathematical notation of the procedures and you will develop skills in applying R, a free software package for data analysis, statistical computation and graphical presentation. As a byproduct, you learn how to use R in the context of your research interests. R has a constantly growing number of ready-made modules for a wide range of statistical and graphical applications (currently more than 3790).

A detailed description of the course is available at: http://www.gesis.org/en/events/mathematical-tools/“

GESIS Workshops im Sommer 2013

Upcoming GESIS workshops in 2013

GESIS Workshops are short courses of one to three days, providing training relevant to all phases of the research data cycle and more. GESIS is continuously working on an interesting compilation of training courses, and added some new workshops to our program since our last newsletter. By the way, their website http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/ gets updated on a regular basis. So it is worth having a look from time to time. The full list of workshops (including the ones held in German) is available at www.gesis.org/workshops.

IAB Graduate Programme: “Methods of Policy Evaluation”

Date: April 26, 2013 , 09:00 – 17:00,  IAB Nuremberg

Institution: Graduate Programme (GradAB) at the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nuremberg

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Johannes Schmider (Boston University)

This course provides an overview over research methods for evaluating economic policies. The course will cover Difference in Difference, Randomized Experiments, Bunching estimators, Regression Discontinuity Designs and Regression Kink Designs. The focus will be on the practical aspects of these methods, their strength and weaknesses and how they can be used to inform policy makers. We will cover many current edge research papers, in particular drawing on examples from evaluating the effects of transfer programs, such as welfare benefits and earned income tax credits, and social insurance programs such as unemployment benefits. The emphasis will be on “reduced form estimators” based on natural experiments – as opposed to structural estimation of fully specified models. However we will show how these methods can be used in combination with theory to estimate parameters for evaluating the welfare effects of economic benefits along the lines of the sufficient statistics approach that has become popular in the applied public finance literature in recent years (See Chetty 2009).

Please register by E-mail sandra.huber@iab.de

http://www.iab.de/en/gradab

IAB Graduate Programme: “Welfare State and Social Policy”

Date: May 13, 2013 , 09:00 – 17:00,  IAB Nuremberg

Institution: Graduate Programme (GradAB) at the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nuremberg

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans

The history of the modern welfare state can be traced back to the 19th century when industrialization, urbanization and population growth undercut traditional forms of welfare provision. After World War II the economic growth provided resources for an enormous welfare state expansion. Welfare state policies now face several challenges: European integration leading to ‘semi-sovereign’ welfare states, transition from industrial to service economies, changes in the labour markets (increasing participation of women, migration, decreasing demand for low-skilled labour), and the demographic development. These processes produce more social needs, new risk patterns and higher priority for education and service provision. A look at the policy outcomes raises the question of how greater social justice can be achieved.

 Contents:

  1. Introduction: Historical development of welfare states
  2. Welfare state approaches: public or private? Families, state or market?
  3. Models of welfare state regimes in established and emerging welfare states
  4. Policies around the labour market: unemployment insurance, labour market activation, work accidents and sickness benefits
  5. Policies: Education, health and old-age pensions
  6. Policy outcomes: inequality and poverty

Please register by E-mail sandra.huber@iab.de

http://www.iab.de/en/gradab

GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology (8-30 August, 2013)

The 2nd GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology will take place at GESIS Cologne from August 08 to 30, 2013.

Surveys are the main method of systematic data collection in the Social Sciences. Surveys provide empirical data for researchers to analyse, and are an important source of information for business, charities and policy makers. There are numerous types of surveys suited for different purposes. Given the variety and complexity of survey research, designing and conducting a survey that effectively and efficiently serves a specific purpose requires specialised expertise and skill (as well as a good team).

Objectives

The GESIS Summer School offers high quality training in state of the art techniques and methods of survey research. It aims to equip participants with essential skills in the design, planning, execution, documentation and quality assurance of surveys of households, individuals or organisations. This Summer School is unique in Europe with its focus on Survey Methodology and data collection.

The GESIS Summer School does not only give a broad overview of survey methods, but provides an opportunity to deeply engage with the different tasks of survey design and implementation (such as questionnaire design, sampling, nonresponse and fieldwork monitoring), different survey modes (such as personal interviews and web surveys), research designs involving surveys (such as mixed methods, factorial surveys, longitudinal surveys and cross-national surveys) as well as data management. The courses offer engaging instruction in state-of-the-art knowledge and application oriented skills, provided by an international team of survey specialists. Our instructors come from a diverse set of countries and fields, and we welcome applicants from all countries and fields.

Target audience

The Summer School is designed for advanced graduate and PhD students as well as post-docs and other researchers interested in improving their knowledge and skills in survey methodology from all relevant fields, such as Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Education Science, Communication Science, Epidemiology, Demography etc. Professionals from outside academic research who are working with surveys are welcome to apply. It is the right place to go for PhD students and researchers planning to run their own survey, but also for those who analyse secondary data, want to know more about how the data came about, how to assess their quality, and those who wish to engage in methodological research.

We are very thankful for the cooperation with the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) of the University of Mannheim. We also gratefully acknowledge the contributions made by our sponsors to a social and cultural program. It is greatly important to us that participants can meet outside the seminar rooms to have a good time and find new research collaborators and, indeed, friends. We aim to provide participants with a supportive social environment, a stimulating and academically rigorous program, and an exciting time in Cologne.

We hope you enjoy reading the program, and hope to see you in Cologne in August 2013!

Programm 2013

Registration and fees

Further information

GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2013: Programme now online!

From August 8 to 30, 2013

19 courses, three and a half weeks, summer time, right in the center of Cologne, at GESIS: The 2nd GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology. Registration will open in mid February.

Short courses:

One- and two-week courses:

Further Information