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Mentoring Programs Support the Integration of Refugees

Over a million people sought asylum in Germany between 2014 and 2016. During this time, many Germans began volunteering in various ways to help refugees and mentorship pro- grams in particular gained significance. As this report shows, participating in a mentorship program has a positive impact on refugees: They improve their language skills and become more socially active. Mentors experience the relationship ...

Durch Mentorenprogramme verbessern Geflüchtete ihre Sprachkenntnisse und sind sozial aktiver: Interview

Geschrumpft und verängstigt? Die Lage der Mittelschicht in Deutschland

Bevölkerungsentwicklung: Mehrheit der Bayern bleibt in Bayern

Neue Zahlen zur Bevölkerungsentwicklung zeigen: Menschen, die in kleineren Bundesländern geboren wurden, ziehen häufiger weg. Im Süden bleibt man der Heimat eher treu.

Masse statt Klasse: Die gefährlichen Betreuungsmängel in Deutschlands Kitas

Der Ausbau von Kinderkrippen soll Eltern eine lückenlose Erwerbsbiografie ermöglichen. Doch weil gut ausgebildete Erzieher fehlen, sinkt die Qualität der Betreuung. Das ist nicht nur gefährlich für die Kinder, sondern teuer für die Gesellschaft.

Gespaltene Mitte – gespaltene Gesellschaft? Eine empirische Clusteranalyse auf Basis des SOEP

Experience, vulnerability, or overload? Emotional job demands as moderator in trajectories of emotional well-being and job satisfaction across the working lifespan

Employees exert emotional effort in order to perform their work effectively, albeit to varying degrees based on their occupation. These emotional job demands (EJDs) affect employees’ well-being, yet evidence is mixed as to whether these effects are positive or negative. One limiting factor in extant studies is that they investigated short-term effects or cross-sectional relationships between EJDs (usually ...

Selective insensitivity for losses but not gains in decision making under risk among the poor

We analyzed decision making under risk in a group of 50 poor individuals and a group of 50 rich individuals from the city of Lima, Peru, using the Columbia Card Task game. Contrary to the decisions of the rich, the decisions of the poor were insensitive to changes in the magnitude of potential losses: the risk taking of the poor did not increase when potential losses were low compared to when they ...

Geflüchtete Kinder und Covid-19: Corona als Brennglas vorhandener Problematiken

The experience of ostracism over the adult life span

Ostracism, that is, being excluded and ignored by others, is a highly painful and threatening experience for individuals. Most empirical research on ostracism has been carried out in the lab or focused on samples in specific contexts. Here, we investigate the effects of age on how individuals experience ostracism within a broad, representative sample of the adult German population (the Socio-Economic ...