U.S. Participation in a Cooperative Cross-National Research Infrastructure Project

根据这一项目，美国经济学、社会学和人口学研究人员将与欧洲同行一道，从1999年底至2001年夏季在卢森堡迪费尔当日的人口、贫穷和政策研究中心/技术、环境、替代办法和发展研究国际网络（INSTEAD）工作。 他们会访问数据文件（特别是卢森堡收入研究和卢森堡就业研究），并与欧洲同行合作开展与收入结构和收入动态、种族和社会不平等、区域发展、劳动力市场和就业、人口老龄化问题、结构性经济变革等主题有关的共同感兴趣的项目;性别和儿童贫困。 研究人员将与其他有着相似兴趣的人互动，并将被指导访问CEPS提供的多国横截面和面板数据集。访问结束后，研究人员将继续工作，在随后的会议和研讨会上提交论文，并提供工作文件，这些文件将通过地雷影响调查/当地生活统计网站免费提供，所有地雷影响调查/当地生活统计工作文件也是如此。申请资助的具体方案是CEPS的社会经济科学国际研究基础设施（IRISS）方案，该方案由欧盟委员会第十二局的大型设施方案资助。通过这一方案，欧洲共同体的研究人员得到补贴，可以在一个共同的网站上就共同的数据资源开展工作，利用家庭微观数据解决社会问题。IRISS项目明确限制了对EC居民的支持，但如果其他国家的学者能找到资金支持他们在CEPS的研究时间，他们也有可能参与。 IRISS将在社会和行为科学方面建立更强大的研究基础设施，并提供有用的研究产品

9905922SmeedingUnder this project United States researchers in economics, sociology and demography would join with European counterparts at the Center for the Study of Populations, Poverty, and Policy (CEPS)/ International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, and Development (INSTEAD) in Differdange, Luxembourg from late 1999 through summer 2001. They would access data files (including especially the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the Luxembourg Employment Study (LES)), and work collaboratively with their European peers on projects of a common interest related to topics such as income structures and income dynamics; ethnic and social inequality; regional development; labor markets and employment; issues related to aging populations; structural economic change; and gender and child poverty. Researchers would interact with others sharing similar interests and would also be instructed in accessing the multinational cross-sectional and panel datasets available at CEPS. Researchers would continue their work once the visit was ended, returning to present their papers at subsequent meetings and seminars, and providing working papers that will be made available free via the LIS/LES website, as are all LIS/LES working papers. The specific program that funding is requested for is the International Research Infrastructure in the Socio-economic Sciences (IRISS) Program at CEPS which is funded by the European Commission Directorate XII's Large Scale Facility program. Through this program European Community researchers are subsidized to work together at a common site on common data resources to address issues of social problems using household microdata. The IRISS programs explicitly limit its support to EC residents but leaves open the possibility for other nations' scholars to participate if they can find the funds to support their research time at CEPS. The IRISS will produce a stronger research infrastructure in the social and behavioral science as well as useful research products