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

9905922 smeeding1999年底至2001年夏，在这个项目下，美国的经济学、社会学和人口学研究人员将与欧洲同行一道，在卢森堡的人口、贫困和政策研究中心(CEPS)/技术、环境、替代方案和发展研究国际网络（INSTEAD）工作。他们将访问数据文件（特别是卢森堡收入研究（LIS）和卢森堡就业研究（LES）），并与欧洲同行就与收入结构和收入动态等主题相关的共同感兴趣的项目进行合作；种族和社会不平等；区域发展;劳动力市场和就业；与人口老龄化有关的问题；结构性经济变革；性别和儿童贫困。研究人员将与其他有相似兴趣的人进行互动，并将指导如何访问cps提供的跨国横断面和面板数据集。访问结束后，研究人员将继续他们的工作，在随后的会议和研讨会上展示他们的论文，并提供工作论文，这些工作论文将通过LIS/LES网站免费提供，就像所有LIS/LES工作论文一样。申请资金的具体项目是CEPS的社会经济科学国际研究基础设施（IRISS）项目，该项目由欧盟委员会第12理事会的大规模设施项目资助。通过这一方案，欧共体研究人员得到补贴，在一个共同的地点共同研究共同的数据资源，利用家庭微数据解决社会问题。IRISS项目明确限制了对欧共体居民的支持，但如果其他国家的学者能够找到资金支持他们在cceps的研究时间，他们也可以参加。IRISS将在社会和行为科学方面建立更强大的研究基础设施以及有用的研究产品

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