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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...