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Objectives Housing is an important social determinant of health, but the perspectives of asylum seekers and refugees (ASR) in large, centralised reception centres remain under-researched. We therefore sought to examine which housing aspects in reception centres are deemed relevant for health by ASR in Germany. Methods Based on 47 interviews with 42 ASR in Germany originating from three different studies, ...
In:
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
5 (2024), June 2024, 100407
| Eilin Rast, Maren Hintermeier, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Louise Biddle
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Job satisfaction is sensitive to economic fluctuations; it rises during economic growth and falls in recessions. Job satisfaction also depends on relative comparisons. For workers less affected by business cycles-as is typical in the public sector-job satisfaction may thus be countercyclical due to comparisons with other sectors. Previous laboratory results confirm this countercyclical trend. This ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
25 (2024), 6, 70
| Oded Ravid
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This paper brings together the literature on regional variability in innovation activity with studies on the role of personality for regional innovativeness. Building on regionally aggregated levels of individual Big Five personality traits obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the Big Five Project, we find that only extraversion has a positive effect on patenting in German regions. This ...
In:
Research Policy
53 (2024), 6, 105006
| Leonie Reher, Petrik Runst, Jörg Thomä
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What role do border regions play in fostering a European identity? The European Union considers them relevant places of integration and has dedicated €10 billion to cross-border co-operation between 2014 and 2020. This action relies on the idea that border regions are hot spots of integration, as they allow citizens to engage in transnational activities, stimulating a sense of cross-border community, ...
In:
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
(online first) (2024),
| Moritz Rehm, Martin Schröder, Georg Wenzelburger
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Combining the frameworks of fundamental causes theory and diffusion of innovation, scholars had anticipated a delayed COVID-19 vaccination uptake for people in lower socioeconomic position depending on the socioeconomic context. We qualify these propositions and analyze educational differences in COVID-19 vaccination status over the first ten months of Germany’s vaccination campaign in 2021. Data from ...
In:
Scientific Reports
14 (2024), 1, 23904
| Marvin Reis, Niels Michalski, Susanne Bartig, Elisa Wulkotte, Christina Poethko-Müller, Daniel Graeber, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Claudia Hövener, Jens Hoebel
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Der Artikel präsentiert die Resultate der Grohmann Vorlesung, die am Ende der Corona Pandemie in Deuschland gehalten wurde. Er gibt einen Überblick über die Defizite des Monitorings der Pandemie in Deutschland und schlägt Alternativen vor, wie man bei zukünftigen Pandemien verfahren sollte. Der Artikel analysiert die Schwächen des offiziellen Meldesystems der Inzidenzzahlen und der Vorhersagen von ...
In:
AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
17 (2023), 2, 113-144
| Ulrich Rendtel
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This dissertation explores the challenge of decarbonization of the energy sector from different perspectives, applying various methods. Chapter 1 provides background and motivates the thesis. Chapter 2 assesses the relationship between geographical and temporal flexibility in a 100% renewable energy scenario across twelve central European countries. Applying a capacity expansion model and a factor ...
2024,
| Alexander Roth
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This article examines the link between immigrants’ social capital and their labour market access (employment) and success (occupational status) in Germany and contributes to previous research in two ways. Firstly, based on insights from theories of social capital and immigrant integration, we overcome the mere distinction between inter- and intra-ethnic ties. Instead, we approximate resources immigrants ...
In:
Comparative Migration Studies
12 (2024), 1, 7
| Julia Rüdel, Jan-Philip Steinmann
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Die vorliegende Studie liefert empirische Hinweise zum Zusammenhang zwischen Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen und einer Selbstständigkeit im Handwerk. Die Ergebnisse lassen sich wie folgt zusammenfassen: A) Die Persönlichkeitseigenschaften „Extraversion“, „Offenheit für Neues“, „Risikotoleranz“ und „Selbstwirksamkeit bzw. Kontrollüberzeugung“ wirken im Handwerk wie im Nicht-Handwerk positiv auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit, ...
Göttingen:
Volkswirtschaftlichen Instituts für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen,
2022,
(ifh Forschungsbericht 2)
| Petrik Runst, Jörg Thomä
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Der Artikel stellt die vorläufigen Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts "Employer Branding deutscher Arbeitgeber zur Gewinnung hochqualifizierter Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine" vor. Untersucht werden Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen für Beschäftigung ukrainischer Flüchtlinge, die nach Februar 2022 nach Deutschland kamen. Mithilfe von Experteninterviews wurden neue Auffassungen zu den Gründen ...
Wiesbaden:
RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden Institute of Finance and Insurance (wifin),
2024,
(wifin Working Paper No. 17/2024)
| Galyna Nesterenko