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El trabajo por cuenta propia como repertorio de acción: recuperando el tiempo propio en Santiago de Chile

Este artículo explora, a través de una metodología cualitativa longitudinal, el aumento en la valoración del trabajo independiente en Santiago de Chile tras las movilizaciones de 2019 y durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Los hallazgos sugieren que trabajadores de sectores precarizados buscan activamente autonomía y control sobre su propio tiempo. Argumentamos que el trabajo por cuenta propia debe entenderse ...

Challenges and progress in labor market integration: Job search, scope and quality of employment

Herausforderungen und Fortschritte bei der Arbeitsmarktintegration: Stellensuche, Umfang und Qualität der Erwerbstätigkeit

What an (Un) Favorable Match: Public Sector Employment and the Reversal of the Overeducation-Job Satisfaction Penalty

It is a well-documented phenomenon that individuals with higher education than required for their job report lower job satisfaction. However, whether this also applies to public sector employees remains unclear. The German case reveals a negative relationship between overeducation and job satisfaction in the private sector, which is reversed to positive for public sector employees. This holds robust ...

Fremd- und zweisprachige Kinder in Deutschland: Eine Auswertung des Mikrozensus

Einer eigenen Auswertung des Mikrozensus zufolge lebten im Jahr 2021 rund 801.000 Minderjährige in Deutschland, die zu Hause kein Deutsch sprachen. Das sind 5,8 Prozent aller Kinder und Jugendlichen. Deutsch und eine Fremdsprache sprachen 3,04 Millionen Minderjährige oder 21,9 Prozent. Dabei geht die Fremd- und Zweisprachigkeit häufig mit weiteren Risikofaktoren für eine erfolgreiche Bildungslaufbahn ...

How do individuals interact with the police? Validation of a scale of motivational postures toward the police in Spanish

This article addressed the critical issue of citizens’ attitudes toward law enforcement, focusing on motivational postures toward the police (i.e., the psychological dispositions that individuals maintain toward the police). The study contributes by providing the first validated motivational postures scale toward the police in Spanish. It responds to a gap in research on motivational postures within ...

The Impact of a New Workplace Technology on Employees

How does the implementation of a new technology affect workers? Using detailed worker-level data for Germany, we analyse the impact of new technologies on non-monetary working conditions such as overtime, training and perceived labour intensity. We show that the strongest effects arise in the first year of their implementation. These effects diminish after the introduction period. We further provide ...

Artificial intelligence and autonomy at work: empirical insights from Germany

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a prominent topic regarding the digitalisation of work and its diffusion is expected to radically change job quality. Overall, there exists a large discrepancy between discursive expectations and quantitative empirical evidence. In this article, we use a novel module from the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the overall prevalence of AI at work, the determinants ...

Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States

While stratification scholars have extensively examined intergenerational associations in lifetime income, they have mostly disregarded how family background affects exposure to income volatility over the life course. As exposure to volatility represents a non-desirable outcome associated with negative shocks to individuals’ welfare, studying the link between family background and volatility is key ...

The Artificial Intelligence Experience and Attitude Survey (AIEAS): A Brief Measure forSocio-Economic Panel Studies

Large-scale socio-economic panel studies aim to document societal trends and public opinions using representative population samples. Despite the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on public and private life across diverse contexts, these studies have rarely addressed the use and evaluation of AI for individual respondents. Therefore, a standardized assessment instrument is introduced ...