We here assess the impact of DSL internet access on a set of labour market outcomes of working-age individuals in Germany between 2008 and 2012. Assuming internet access improves the quality of employer-employee matching by reducing search costs, we focus on indicators of job quality: the working hours mismatch, job satisfaction, and the probability of changing job. We draw...
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Wer die Wirtschaft gegen Corona-Regeln aufrechnet, erzeugt einen Konflikt, den es nicht gibt. Priorität müssen Transparenz und Angemessenheit der Maßnahmen haben. Die Stimmen werden zunehmend lauter: Man könne sich keine weiteren Restriktionen des gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Lebens in Deutschland mehr erlauben, trotz der zweiten Infektionswelle, die Deutschland hart ...
Educational large-scale studies typically adopt highly standardized settings to collect cognitive data on large samples of respondents. Increasing costs alongside dwindling response rates in these studies necessitate exploring alternative assessment strategies such as unsupervised web-based testing. Before respective assessment modes can be implemented on a broad scale, their impact on cognitive measurements ...
All 193 UN member states have pledged to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), following the guiding principle to leave no one behind. At the same time, rising populist movements increasingly influence the political debate in many countries by challenging multilateral cooperation and liberal democracy. This paper contains the first empirical study of the relationship between the SDGs and ...
