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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...