Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys

Hans-Peter Blossfeld is on leave from his Chair in Sociology at Bamberg University since 2012 and holds a Chair in Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence.   Jutta von Maurice is the executive director of research of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories at the University of Bamberg.Michael Bayer is operational manager of the operational unit ‘Motivational Variables and Personality Aspects Across the Life Course’ at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories at the University of Bamberg.Jan Skopek is senior research scientist at the Comparative Life Course & Inequality Research Center of the European University Institute in Florence and is conducting cross-national comparisons in the eduLIFE project, which is supported by an advanced grant from the ERC. 

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