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Digitalisation places new demands on employees working in changing occupations. To undertake the adaptation to new requirements further training is one central strategy of updating and building new skills – especially for older employees....

Digitalisation places new demands on employees working in changing occupations. To undertake the adaptation to new requirements further training is one central strategy of updating and building new skills – especially for older employees....

From a sociological point of view, the inflationary increase in managerial imperatives observable in modern Western societies with their ideal of formal “Zweckrationalität” in the guise of effectiveness and efficiency as well as their potential...

Since 2009, the AID:A studies regularly provide an empirical source of information to the scientific community on how children, adolescents, and young adults grow up in their families and other social and educational contexts. Shortly before the...

In the course of digitization, working from home has become increasingly important in Germany. While several studies emphasize the advantages of working from home, there are also indications of possible negative effects. In this article, we address...

This article addresses the question of the extent to which support for ethnically inclusive public funding of culture can be found among the German population. To explain differences in attitudes, I draw on three explanatory approaches. I test these...

While the relationship between the transition to higher education and social origin has been widely investigated, much less is known about study trajectories, that is, the study patterns between enrolment and graduation (or terminal dropout). This...

For a long time, research on e/valuation has focused on the valuation of (im)material things. This paper, on the other hand, examines the valuation of people and the treatment that precedes their valuation. The case in which this practice is...

The BIBB Establishment Panel on Qualification and Competence Development is the second largest annual panel survey of firms in Germany. In this article, we present the harmonised longitudinal data set from the first wave in 2011 to the 2019 wave,...

Initiated by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr), the research data centre (Forschungsdatenzentrum im Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (FDZ im KBA)) provides anonymised quantitative microdata free of...

The German Survey on Volunteering (FWS) is a representative telephone survey of voluntary activities of persons aged 14 and older in Germany. Since 1999, information on volunteering and its context, extent and motives as well as on donations and the...

"Biodiversity" is a particular term that brings complex ideas of the "abundance of life" to a scientific formula and at the same time marks it as a desirable state. Since the early 1990s, the meta-narrative "threatened biodiversity" has functioned...

This article is the first to comprehensively examine the question of the extent to which social origin exerts an influence on the choice of educational and occupational options after dropping out of a first degree programme. Based on the survey of...

In opposition to the thesis of a predominantly instrumental employment orientation, research has shown that workers in low-skilled jobs have a variety of non-instrumental work orientations. This article focuses on workers without valid formal...

The contact restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic influence social relationships in families and at work. Drawing on Granovetter’s network theory, the changes of strong and weak ties in different life spheres of middle-class...

Political trust is one aspect that might be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict government-implemented measures to fight the virus. Previous studies report an increase in political trust at the onset of the pandemic in several European...

Political trust is one aspect that might be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict government-implemented measures to fight the virus. Previous studies report an increase in political trust at the onset of the pandemic in several European...

The possible consequences of the Corona crisis for social inequalities have received a lot of attention in public as well as scientific debates. On the one hand, concerns have been raised that the pandemic intensified pre-existing patterns of social...

Based on data from a supplementary survey of the German Socio-Economic Panel on the Covid-19 pandemic (SOEP-CoV), this article examines differences in the implementation of various person-related and organizational occupational safety and health...

Several studies have tried to estimate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on student learning and the learning differences between social groups. Few studies have looked at the effects on other aspects of students’ educational achievement,...

This study examines the coping capacities of families during the Covid-19 lockdown in relation to their material and social resources. Specifically, we examine (1) how familial modes of living changed during the lockdown; (2) how the affected...

This paper explores the heterogeneous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees’ well-being regarding their work–life conflicts and self-rated health. Following the stress of higher status and resources of higher status hypotheses, we...

This paper explores the heterogeneous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees’ well-being regarding their work–life conflicts and self-rated health. Following the stress of higher status and resources of higher status hypotheses, we...