QMSS Conference 2007

• Introduction
• Venue
• Important Dates
• Invited Speakers
• Committees
• Schedule
• Call For Papers
• Registration
• Travel and Accommodation
• ESRA Conference

European Science Foundation

Provisional Schedule

Wednesday 20 June
18.00-19.30	Welcome reception and registration
Thursday 21 June
08.00-09.00	Registration
09.00-10.30	Plenary Opening Session Welcome from Jakub Fischer,, Vice-Dean for Research and Informatics, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics and Petr Hebák, Department of Statistics and Probability, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Overview of QMSS, Chris Skinner, University of Southampton Long Live QMSS, Henk Stronkhorst, European Science Foundation, France Assessing Uncertainty in Population Projections with HIV/AIDS Using Bayesian Melding, Adrian Raftery, University of Washington and Czech Academy of Sciences, United States and Czech Republic
11.00-12.30	Parallel Session on Longitudinal Work orientations in Europe: a gender based generational analysis, Lucie Davoine, Boubaker Hlaimi and Michal W Urdanivia Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe adapting to new risks arising from non-standard employment? Janine Leschke Recalling Past Attitudes: Who Knows Best?, Eva Jaspers Parallel Session on Cross-National: Comparing Comparisons - Cross-national multilevel analyses with different measurements and data sets testing the inter-study stability of determinants of attitudes towards homosexuality in Europe, Tilo Beckers 'Digital Divide' Reconsidered: A Country- and Individual-Level Typology of digital inequality in 26 European Countries, Boris Kragelj and Elmar Schlüter Parallel Session on Measurement: Testing the Measurement Equivalence of Nationalism and Patriotism across 33 Countries, Eldad Davidov The quality of social trust items across Europe, William M. van der Veld
14.00-15.30	Plenary Session on Longitudinal and Network Analysis Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Event History Analysis, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Fakultät Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany The Developments in Social Network Analysis, Anuska Ferligoj, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Tom A.B. Snijders, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
16.00-17.30	Parallel Session on Network: Appearance of trust in regional, co-operative organizational networks, Siru Korkala Social Network Analysis and Research Designs in the Field of Organizational and Regional Science, Jakob Mumm and Michael Vyborny The Formation of Coalitions in a New Market: The case of Socially Responsible Investment in France, Elise Penalva, Filip Agneessens, Catherine Comet and Fabien Eloire Parallel Session on Cross-National: Balancing Psychological Contracts: Validation of a Typology, Nele De Cuyper and Thomas Rigotti Cultural differences as statistical artefacts? Reanalysing cross-national data with more advanced techniques, Michael Hoelscher Young people's perception of harmfulness in answering to a survey about sexuality and sexual abuse, Mare Ainsaar and Gisela Priebe Parallel Session on Measurement: Attempts to improve work and general psychological well-being: Test of the Karasek model in a representative sample of EU working population, Sandra Ohly and Zan Strabac Is Social Capital a Factor?, Keming Yang Social Capital and Student Achievement in Norwegian Secondary Schools, Lihong Huang
Friday 22 June
09.00-10.30	Plenary Session on Cross-National Research: Developments in Cross-National Research, Jacques Hagenaars, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Cross-National Microsimulation using EUROMOD: How does it work and what can it do?, Holly Sutherland, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, United Kingdom
11.00-12.30	Parallel Session on Longitudinal: University Drop-Out: A Structural Equation Approach to Discrete-Time Survival Analysis, Manuel Völkle and Katerina Vlckova Intergenerational transmission of social disadvantage and work life careers - Differences within the Scandinavian Model, Rasmus Juul Møberg and Øyvind Wiborg Educational Reproduction in the Czech Lands from 1916 to the Present: A Mobility Perspective, Natalie Simonová and Petr Soukup Parallel Session on Cross-National: Division of Household Labor between Spouses: Calculation or Values? An empirical test on 23 European countries, Małgorzata Mikucka and Jean-François Mignot The Effects of Media Forms on Social Capital across European Welfare Regimes: A Multiple Group Structural Equation Modelling Approach (MG-SEM), Léan McMahon, Boris Kragelj and Geoffrey Hammond Social Capital and Attitudes towards Immigrants: a cross-cultural comparison of Austria and the United Kingdom using structural equation modelling, Prachi Srivastava, Natalia Waechter and Sameer Hosany Parallel Session on Intervention: Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S., Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz and Rusty Tchernis Using auto-regressive and latent growth curve models for analysing the impact of context change on breaking habitual behavior - Results from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study, Sebastian Bamberg, and Peter Schmidt Parallel Session on Measurement: Non-response bias in cross-national surveys: Designs for detection and adjustment in the European social survey, Jaak Billiet John Doe Completely Missing Subject? Missing Data in the Social Sciences, Alexander Severinsen and Katharina Gruenberg Using the BACON algorithm in structural equation modeling, Alina Matei and Petroula Mavrikiou
14.00-15.30	Plenary Session on Intervention Studies and Measurement: Design and Analysis of Intervention Studies, Thomas D. Cook, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Measurement Requirement for Comparative Research, Willem Saris, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science, Amsterdam/Barcelona
16.00-17.30	Parallel Session on Network: Dynamics of conventions and structures in collective learning: a case study, Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Tom Snijders Networks for generating and for validating ideas: The social side of creativity and innovation, Sandra Ohly, Robert Kaše and Miha Škerlavaj Measurement and Interpretation of Hierarchical Structures in Interpersonal Communication Networks, Thomas Friemel Parallel Session on Cross-National: Fitting Log-linear Models to Contingency Tables from Surveys with Complex Sampling Designs: An Assessment of the Clogg-Eliason Approach, Chris Skinner and Louis-André Vallet Educational Assortative Mating in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary between 1976 and 2003, Tomáš Katrňák Parallel Session on Measurement: Self-directed Career Management: The Protean Approach to Career Success. An Empirical Study of German Executives and Professionals, Rosina M. Gasteiger Gender-Role Attitudes and Female Employment in East/West Germany and the Baltic States, Anke Höhne and Akvile Motiejunaite Integral Customer Data Analysis: Prerequisites and Tools, Irena Ograjenšek
Saturday 23 June
09.00-10.30	Parallel Session on Longitudinal: Income Inequality Trends of Knowledge Societies: Evidence from 19 OECD Countries between 1970 and 2002, Daniela Rohrbach Unemployment and its impact on re-entry status and post-unemployment status growth for different educational groups, Paul Schmelzer and Boubaker Hlaimi Parallel Session on Network: Who is alone? Causes and Consequences of Small Networks, Beate Völker A network approach to studying effects of ethnic background on friendship and social groups, Janna Fortuin and Ales Ziberna Social Capital in educational organizations: an exploration of social networks and trust among school staff, Nienke M. Moolenaar Parallel Session on Intervention: Evaluation of the impact of the Natural Forest Protection Programme on rural household incomes, Katrina Mullan Propensity scores and multilevel data: An application to the Virtual Y after-school program, Marie-Claire E. Aussems Improving Experiment Internal Validity: Application to Measuring the Effect of Extrinsic Information on the Perceived Quality of Olive Oil, Sihem Dekhili, François D'hauteville
11.00-12.30	Plenary Session on Developments in Data: European Statistical Microdata Bases: What Form of Access for Social Science Researchers?, Michel Glaude, EUROSTAT Data Visualization and Complex Visual Analyses as New Ways for Widening and Deepening Social Science Analyses, Karl H.Mueller, Vienna Institure for Social Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM)
14.00-	Prague Sightseeing
Sunday 24 June
	Sunday Day-trip at Sychrov Castle

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