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Unternehmen leisten einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Integration Geflüchteter in Deutschland

Nach der im Jahr 2015 verstärkt einsetzenden Zuwanderung Geflüchteter hat jüngsten Studien zufolge etwa jedes vierte Unternehmen in Deutschland Geflüchtete eingestellt. Laut einer Umfrage unter 100 Unternehmen mit Erfahrung in der Integration von Geflüchteten hat die Einstellung Geflüchteter verschiedene Effekte. Die Unternehmen berichten von einem Anstieg der Zufriedenheit in der Belegschaft, besserer ...

Companies Contribute Significantly to the Integration of Refugees in Germany

Following the 2015 refugee influx, recent studies have found that around one in four companies have hired refugees. A survey of 100 companies that hired refugees shows that hiring refugees can increase employee satisfaction, improve reputations, and positively affect corporate developments. At the same time, hiring refugees also poses challenges for employers. These include barriers in the hiring process, ...

Eltern und Kind (7-8 Jahre, CAPI) 2020 - Version mit Variablen (de)

Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these ...

Urban Land Use Fragmentation and Human Well-Being

We study how land use fragmentation affects the life satisfaction of city dwellers. To this end, we calculate fragmentation metrics based on exact geographical coordinates of land use from the European Urban Atlas and of households from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects specifications, we find little effect on life satisfaction when aggregating over land ...

Sociohistorical Change in Urban Older Adults' Perceived Speed of Time and Time Pressure

OBJECTIVES: Perceptions of time are shaped by sociohistorical factors. Specifically, economic growth and modernization often engender a sense of acceleration. Research has primarily focused on one time perception dimension (perceived time pressure) in one subpopulation (working-age adults), but it is not clear whether historical changes extend to other dimensions (e.g., perceived speed of time) and ...

Discounting Behavior in Problem Gambling

Problem gamblers discount delayed rewards more rapidly than do non-gambling controls. Understanding this impulsivity is important for developing treatment options. In this article, we seek to make two contributions: First, we ask which of the currently debated economic models of intertemporal choice (exponential versus hyperbolic versus quasi-hyperbolic) provides the best description of gamblers’ discounting ...

The Development of Life Goals Across the Adult Life Span

Objectives: Life goals are important organizing units for individual agency in development. On a societal level, they align with age-normative developmental tasks; on the individual level, they guide people’s attempts at shaping their own development. This study investigates the development of life goals across the adult life span with a focus on differences regarding gender, parental status, education, ...

Künstliche Intelligenz in Deutschland: Erwerbstätige wissen oft nicht, dass sie mit KI-basierten Systemen arbeiten

Der Begriff der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) bleibt im Arbeitsalltag für Erwerbstätige oftmals undurchschaubar. Das zeigt eine Auswertung der Verbreitung von KI in der Arbeitswelt in Deutschland mithilfe des neuen Datenmoduls des SOEP-IS zum Thema Digitalisierung. Fragt man die Erwerbstätigen direkt nach der Nutzung von digitalen Systemen mit „Künstlicher Intelligenz“, geben rund 20 Prozent an, solche ...

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