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Data Analysis with R

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Marco Lehmann (University of Hamburg)

Date:

30.09.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
01.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
02.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
03.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

The course introduces the programming language R used for statistical analyses. The beginning of each lecture comes with a demonstration of programming and statistical functions that will be elaborated in the course of study. The students will then practice with many statistical examples. In addition to statistical functions the course will introduce the definition of R as a programming language and its syntax rules. Students will further learn to use R’s scripting capabilities.

Literatur

Wollschläger, Daniel (2012). Grundlagen der Datenauswertung mit R (2. Aufl.). Berlin: Springer.

You have to register for the 7th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date:

30.09.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
01.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
02.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30
04.10.2013, 09:00 – 12:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

Stata is a statistical program package widely used (not only) in the social and economical sciences; it is used for data management, statistical graphics and analysis of quantitative data. Statistical concepts will not be part of the course, so participants should have some very basic knowledge of statistics. The course should enable participants to prepare their data for analysis, perform adequate analysis using a statistical computer program and to document these tasks to keep them reproducible.

For Beginners with No or Very Little Knowledge of the Program!

Course Topics cover:

“What You Type is What You Get”: Basic stata Command syntax
Getting (and Understanding) Help within stata: stata Bulit-in Help System
Basic Data Management: Load and Save stata Datasets, Generate and Manipulate Variables, Describe and Label Data and Variables, Perform Basic uni- and bivariate Analyses, Change the Structure of your Data
Basic stata Graphics: Scatterplot, Histogram, Bar Chart
Working with “Do-” and “Log-” Files

You have to register for the 7th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

2013 German Stata Users Group meeting (07.06.)

The 11th German Stata Users Group Meeting will be held at the University of Potsdam on Friday, June 7, 2013. This meeting will provide Stata users from all disciplines the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new applications of Stata. Anyone interested in using Stata is invited to attend.

An optional workshop will be held on Thursday, June 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Further Information (Program, Registration etc.)

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/“

Universität Konstanz: akad. Mitarbeiter/in am Lehrstuhl Management

Am Lehrstuhl für Management, insbesondere Strategie und Führung, ist zum 01.10.2013 eine Halbtagsstelle als

Akademische Mitarbeiterin/Akademischer Mitarbeiter
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)

zunächst befristet für die Dauer von 3 Jahren zu besetzen.

Aufgaben:

Mitarbeit an empirischen Forschungsprojekten des Lehrstuhls
Mitwirkung an der Einwerbung von Drittmitteln
Durchführung von Lehrveranstaltungen (auch in englischer Sprache)
Betreuung und Beratung von Studierenden
Unterstützung bei administrativen Aufgaben

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 02.05.2013 erbeten.

Weitere Informationen

University of Bielefeld: Research Positions with TWINLIFE study

1 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (full-time paid)

1 Postgraduate Position (paid 65% of a postdoc position)

in the sociological part of the newly starting DFG long-term project:

“Genetic and social causes of life chances: A genetically informative, longitudinal study of the life course and individual development” (TWINLIFE) (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/we/we3/Diewald/background.html).

Employer is Bielefeld University; workplaces are in the SOEP department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin, where the project leader holds a research professorship.

The project is intended to last over 12 years. However, for the moment only the first three years are funded yet, and so are these two positions. The study combines behavioral genetics with sociological and psychological research in the domains of social inequalities, life course, and individual development. During the first three years, the first wave of the study will be realized: 4000 twin pairs in four birth cohorts plus parents, sibling, and partner.

Applicants should have interest and qualifications in social inequality issues, life course research, behavioral genetics, and very strong skills in quantitative data analysis. Interest in interdisciplinary cooperation is required as well. German language proficiency, both in speaking and writing, is very welcome but not precondition for a successful application.

For further information please contact Professor Martin Diewald.

Applications should include a cover letter, CV, copies of degree certificates, list of publications, and two letters of recommendation. Please send your application via email.

Preferred start for both positions is June 1, 2013.

Deadline for applications is April 30, 2013.

HSU-Gastvortrag: Bewertung von Immateriellem und die Theorie Vilém Flussers (21.03.2013)

Einladung zum Vortrag

Bewertung von Immateriellem und die Theorie Vilém Flussers

Claudia Becker
Vilém Flusser Archiv, Berlin

Termin: 21. März 2013, 11:00 Uhr

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

4th Summer School of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)

The ESSA Summer Schoolwill take place at Hamburg University of Technology from July 15-19, 2013.

It aims at giving an introduction to agent-based modeling and simulation in the social sciences. Therefore, helpful tools and standards for the modeling process should be presented.

To guide the students through the summer school, the lectures will be organized along the research process of social simulation. Starting with a general introduction, the summer school proceeds with modeling issues and documentation. Afterwards, the design of simulation experiments as well as simulation data analysis and validation are addressed. Also issues ‘outside the box’ are discussed, such as the application of ABM in industry. Methods and helpful tools for the application of ABM are mentioned and introduced along the week..

In the morning, an overview of the day and a short classification of the planned lectures and tutorials into the research process are given. This should make the stage of research addressed that day explicit.

Afterwards, lectures and tutorials will go into the subjects.

In the later afternoon, the participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics and questions in small group discussions. Here, moderated discussions take place. The lectures of the day will be invited to take part. This format should activate the students to debate about the presented content of the day and support the knowledge transfer. By this, discussions between participants and lecturers will be promoted. Furthermore, concrete support for own simulation projects may be provided.

To ensure the effectiveness of discussions, the participants will be asked to send out a document before the summer school. In this document, they should give an overview about their research and aimed simulation projects, as well as concrete (methodological) questions they would like to discuss within the summer school. These questions will be the basis for the group organization and help the moderator to guide the discussion. (The moderators may be recruited locally)

In the evening, all come back together to summarize the day and the key elements of the group discussions. Central insights and important progress may be written down on moderation cards and hang out on a white board in the seminar room.

In the end of the week, on Friday, the students present a short progress report. Here, the students should summarize their personal insights and describe the progress they have gained over the week (> “answers to the questions they came with”) on one slide.

For further information see the following link: The ESSA Summer School at Hamburg University of Technology from July 15-19, 2013

Call for Papers: PEGNet Conference 2013 (October 17-18, 2013 in Copenhaben)

How to Shape Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Economies in the
Developing World ─ Global, Regional, and Local Solutions

Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,
October 17-18, 2013

Conference format

The conference will provide a platform for high-level dialogue and exchange of ideas between development researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. The conference will feature parallel sessions based on invited and contributed papers as well as project presentations. The parallel sessions will be complemented by a debate, a round-table discussion, and keynote speeches by renowned speakers from academia, economic policy and development practice. In addition, the PEGNet Best Practice Award will be awarded for the fifth time to best practices in cooperation between researchers and practitioners. While plenary sessions will focus on the conference theme, parallel sessions and Best Practice Award projects are open to all topics surrounding PEGNet’s core theme – the nexus between poverty, equity, and growth.

Conference theme

Economic growth has come largely at the expense of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, and has not yet provided the basis for substantial reductions in economic and social inequality, which is why the concept of green growth has emerged to find ways to make growth compatible with environmental sustainability without neglecting social dimensions.

Inclusive green growth policies are difficult to design and, even in the best case scenarios, are not a panacea for overcoming developing economies’ structural shortcomings that have been excluding the poor from the benefits of growth. In particular, but not exclusively, we invite contributions (papers and projects) that provide answers to the following questions:

What lessons can be learned from existing poverty reduction strategies about the scope for making social, economic and environmental objectives mutually reinforcing?
What mix of regulatory, market-based and informative instruments is needed to facilitate the transition towards green growth which is pro-poor and inclusive?
Are there models of agriculture, which can sustainably meet increased demand for food, feed, fuel and fiber while respecting resource scarcities and the integrity of vital ecosystems?
What are the technological and financing needs for a green economy transition in agriculture, one that includes and benefits smallholder farmers, agricultural laborers and food security?
How can the international development community contribute to this?
How to shape consumer behavior towards green societies in developing and emerging regions?

How can business and policymakers work together to create a green and inclusive economy, and

upscale green and inclusive employment and business models?
How can green and inclusive growth be modeled?

Best Practice Award

We also ask for submissions of projects, programs, and initiatives for the PEGNet Best Practice Award. This award will be granted to programmes or projects that have achieved effective interaction between research and practice. All initiatives that have proved to put research into action and have thereby fostered cooperation between development research and practice are encouraged to apply. Such initiatives can be development projects or programmes that have incorporated research tools into their design or research projects that have been particularly successful in translating their findings into policy and practice. Initiatives targeted at improving dialogue between researchers and practitioners are also encouraged to apply. http://www.pegnet.ifwkiel.de/activities/best-practice-award provides more information about the award.

A maximum of four projects will be selected by a committee on the basis of a three-page summary of the initiative’s objectives, the type of interaction between research and practice as well as its results. The preselected projects will be asked to submit one additional paper or report. At the conference, each nominated initiative will be presented and the winner of a prize of Euro 3000 will be selected by the committee.

Submission and Deadlines

Please email your submissions to pegnet@ifw-kiel.de in a pdf or Word file and indicate ‘PEGNet Conference 2013’ in the subject heading. The submission deadline for papers and Best Practice projects is May 15, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent out in early June 2013. Contributed papers and projects will be selected on the basis of papers or abstracts of not less than 400 words. Priority will be given to empirical research with clear implications for policy design and implementation. The deadline for full papers and additional material for the Best Practice Award is August 31, 2013.

Authors of selected papers will have the option to submit their papers for a special issue of the Economics E-journal (http://www.economics-ejournal.org/special-areas/special-issues/how-toshape-environmentally-and-socially-sustainable-economies-in-the-developing-world-2500-globalregional-and-local-solutions). Please indicate in your submission Email if you also want to submit your paper for the special issue.

For more information on PEGNet and the conference please refer to www.pegnet.ifw-kiel.de.

Organisers

The conference is co-organised by the Department of Economics at University of Copenhagen, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and supported the KfW Development Bank, the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Courant Poverty Research Centre at the University of Göttingen.

Further Information

Call for Papers: GIRA Jahrestagung

Call for Papers für die

GIRA-Jahrestagung 2013
in Erlangen, 10./11. Oktober 2013
Generalthema „International and Comparative Industrial Relations“

Die GIRA widmet ihre nächste Jahrestagung dem Thema ‚International and Comparative Industrial Relations’. Teilfragestellungen und mögliche Themenbereiche in diesem Zusammenhang sind z.B.:

Industrielle Beziehungen in und nach der Wirtschaftskrise
International vergleichende Studien aus allen Bereichen industrieller Beziehungen, z.B. Management, Personalwirtschaft, Arbeitsrecht, betriebliche Interessenvertretung, Gewerkschaften
Theorien und methodische Überlegungen zum internationalen Vergleich

Einsendefrist für Abstracts ist der 30.04.13. Akzeptierte Abstracts müssen bis zum 30.09.2013 als Full Papers für die Tagung eingereicht werden.