Category Archives: Network Courses

Volkswirtschaftliche Kolloquium: Impulsive consumption and reflexive thought: Nudging ethical consumer behavior – Leonhard Lades (23.01.2013)

Einladung zum Vortrag im Rahmen des Volkswirtschaftlichen Kolloquiums

Impulsive consumption and reflexive thought: Nudging ethical consumer behavior
Leonhard Lades
Max Planck Institut für Ökonomik Jena

Termin: 23.01.2013 um 18.00 Uhr

Ort: Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Holstenhofweg 85, Gebäude H1, Raum 1503

GESIS international Workshop: Introduction to Research Data Management for Social Scientists

Good research data management practice minimizes the risk of data loss, ensures research integrity and facilitates replication; it enhances data security, research efficiency and reliability, and over the long-term, saves time and resources. Moreover, data management planning and data re-use is increasingly a requirement of funding organizations. The workshop sessions include a basic conception of data management, advice on writing a data management plan, licensing data for reuse or to reuse, consent and ethics for data reuse, file formats, documentation and metadata, data storage, back-up and security, data management in collaborative research, and archiving your data. The workshop promotes an interactive hands-on approach to looking after your research data and encourages discussion amongst participants on sharing problems and experiences.

Target groups: social science researchers working with qualitative or quantitative data (principal Investigators, researchers parts of project teams, individual researchers, and PhD students)

Language: English

Fee: Regular: 180 EUR, PhD Students: 120 EUR

Deadline: 3 February. Early applications are encouraged, there are only 20 available seats.

Further details and application form available here.

IAB Graduate Programme: Trade, Unemployment and Search and Matching

Date: Friday, 20 April 2012

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

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Mario Larch (University of Bayreuth)

In the couple of last years, renewed interest of the trade effects in settings with imperfect labor markets occurred. While Melitz (2003) introduced firm heterogeneity in models of international trade, he kept the assumption of perfect labor markets. However, in the course of liberalization, job losses and gains seem to be one of the main concerns.

It is the aim of this course to discuss the recent contributions of trade models accounting for search and matching labor market frictions. The search-and matching setup has the advantage that it generates a rather parsimonious link between labor market institutions and the equilibrium rate of unemployment. Moreover, the simultaneous existence of unfilled vacancies and searching workers is one of the most pervasive and well documented features of modern labor markets.

Please register until 31 March, 2012 by E-mail sandra.huber@iab.de

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

IAB Graduate Programme: Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality

Date: Monday, 11 June 2012

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

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener

This class discusses recent evolutions in the wage structure in the United States and Europe. We will explore the potential causes of growing wage inequality and discuss the consequences thereof. Topics to be dealt with will include technological change and changes in skill demand, international trade and immigration. Furthermore, the impact of labor market institutions on the wage structure and the consequences of wage inequality for people’s lives and welfare will be analyzed. We will predominantly explore studies of an empirical nature. When discussing the readings, we will focus not only on the content, but also on the methodology.

Please register until 31 March, 2012 by E-mail sandra.huber@iab.de

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

IAB Graduate Programme: Time Series Analysis

Date: Tuesday, 24 April 2012

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

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Enzo Weber

The course offers an introduction to time series econometrics for PhD students. It covers univariate techniques, cointegration and multi-equation models. Applications of these methods are presented in EViews.

 Contents:

1.     Univariate Time Series Models

  1. Time Series Dynamics
  2. Autoregression
  3. Moving Average
  4. ARMA and Dynamic Regression

2.     Non-Stationarity

  1. Unit Roots
  2. Cointegration

3.     Multiple Equation Models

  1. Vector Autoregression
  2. Impulse Responses and Variance Decomposition
  3. Multiple Cointegration

Please register until 31 March, 2012 by E-mail sandra.huber@iab.de

 http://www.iab.de/en/gradab

Ankündigung und Call: General Online Research-Konferenz, März 2012

Vom 5. bis 7. März 2012 findet die General Online Research 2012 an der Dualen Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim statt.

Focus der von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V. (DGOF) veranstalteten Konferenz ist die Bestandsaufnahme und Dokumentation aktueller Entwicklungen, Methoden und Erkenntnisse der deutschen und internationalen Online-Forschung. Welche aktuellen Ergebnisse gibt es zu Themen der Methodik oder der angewandten Marktforschung? Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt der Konferenz bilden neue Entwicklungen und Forschungsmethoden in den Feldern Social Media, Soziale Netzwerke und Zivilgesellschaft.

Einreicheschluss für Abstracts zu folgenden Themen am 15. November 2011:

  • Track 1 (Online Research Methodology and Internet Surveys)
  • Track 2 (Applied Online Market Research)
  • Track 3 (Social Media Research, Social Networks and Civil Society)
  • Best Practice Competition
  • Thesis Competition

Weitere Informationen zu den Konferenzthemen und Einreicheformalitäten und den kompletten Call for Papers finden Sie hier: http://www.gor.de/gor12/CallGOR2012.pdf

Abstracts können direkt über das Conftool eingereicht werden: http://conftool.gor.de/conftool12/index.php?page=login

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Dr. Lars Kaczmirek

Für das GOR12-Programmkomitee

SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim 2011

An der Universität Mannheim findet vom 20. bis zum 22. Juni 2011 ein Workshop zur “Längsschnittdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)” statt. Der Workshop wird von der Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem SOEP veranstaltet. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Studierende, Doktorand/-innen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen aus den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Eine Anmeldung ist ab dem 21. März 2011 möglich. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der beigefügten Ankündigung oder unter:

http://cdss.uni-mannheim.de/98+M50ca25c57f2.html