Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluations, while domain-specific measurement instruments ...
Am Mittwoch, den 6. November 2024, wurde der Sozialbericht 2024 vorgestellt, der in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel entstanden ist. Herausgeber sind das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis), das Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) und das Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB). Der Sozialbericht (bisher: „Datenreport“) enthält zahlreiche Analysen zu den Lebensverhältnissen ...
This paper analyses trends in mortality inequality in 330 Chilean communes from 1990 to 2010 for different age groups and both genders. Chile had substantial inequalities in local-level mortality rates in 1990 but by 2010 these disparities had significantly decreased, especially among infants, children and the elderly. The only exception was Chilean men aged 20–39, for whom inequality in mortality ...
Die Corona-Pandemie löste nach ihrem Beginn im Jahr 2020 eine weltweite Wirtschaftskrise aus. In Deutschland war – wie schon in der Finanzkrise des Jahres 2009 – Kurzarbeit ein entscheidendes Instrument, um die Folgen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt abzumildern und Arbeitsplätze zu sichern. Frauen waren in der Corona-Zeit im Vergleich zu 2009 deutlich stärker von Kurzarbeit betroffen – und damit in fast gleichem ...
Background Psychosocial stress is considered a risk factor for physical and mental ill-health. Evidence on socioeconomic inequalities with regard to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is still limited. We aimed to investigate how pandemic-induced psychosocial stress (PIPS) in different life domains differed between socioeconomic groups.MethodsData came from the German ...
This paper analyzes M&A patterns of R&D projects in the antidiabetics industry. For this purpose, we construct a database with all corporate individual antidiabetics R&D projects over the period 1997 - 2017, and add detailed information on firms’ technology dimension using patent information, next to their position in product markets. This allows us to identify the identity of targets and acquirers ...
Objectives SARS-CoV-2 infections were unequally distributed during the pandemic, with those in disadvantaged socioeconomic positions being at higher risk. Little is known about the underlying mechanism of this association. This study assessed to what extent educational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infections were mediated by working from home.Methods We used data of the German working population derived ...