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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 257-287, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We differentiate between occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills and draw on representative job advertisement data that contain machine‐learning categorized skill requirements and cover the Swiss job market in great detail ...
Tobias Schultheiss +1 more
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Gender inequality in the one percent: A look under the hood of high incomes in Germany
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 501-519, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Gender differences in economic outcomes are important topics in social science research. However, the study of gender differences among economic elites—“the top one percent”—has received surprisingly little attention, likely also due to a lack of empirical data.
Matthias Collischon
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Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect
British Journal of Psychology, Volume 114, Issue S1, Page 150-171, May 2023., 2023 Abstract People are better at recognizing faces from their own racial or ethnic group compared with faces from other racial or ethnic groups, known as the other‐‘race’ effect (ORE). Several theories of the ORE assume that memory for other‐race faces is impaired because people have less contact with members of other racial or ethnic groups, resulting in
Marleen Stelter +4 more
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Genus, 2020 We study the intersection of international migration and sexual preference from a socio-demographic perspective by looking at same-sex couples among migrants in Germany.
Mirko K. Braack, Nadja Milewski
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Burden of Friedreich’s Ataxia to the Patients and Healthcare Systems in the United States and Canada
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2013 Objective: The study intended to substantiate healthcare resource utilization, costs and funding patterns of US and Canadian Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA) populations, to assess compliance with treatment guidance and to identify areas where novel healthcare
Barbara ePolek +4 more
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Three‐Generation Households in a Central and Eastern European Country: The Case of Hungary
Social Inclusion, 2023 Using data from censuses and a microcensus between 1980 and 2016, this study examines the trends in three‐generational living arrangements, along with the factors that determine the prevalence and characteristics of the phenomenon in Hungary.
Judit Monostori
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Journal of Family Research, 2015 The unrecognised potential of large N – Strengths and limitations of the German Microcensus exemplified by fertility research Due to a large number of cases (688.931 persons in 2012) the German Microcensus has a huge potential for analyses in demography ...
Martin Bujard +3 more
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The Labour Supply of Female Engineers in Germany
Austrian Journal of Statistics, 2016 Recent developments in the German demography will give rise to a shortage in skilled workers in the coming decades. A solution to this problem might involve a higher degree of integration of female engineers in the workforce.
Eva Schlenker
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Concepts for migration-sensitive health monitoring [PDF]
Journal of Health Monitoring, 2019 According to microcensus data, nearly one quarter of the German population has a migration background. This means that either themselves or at least one parent was born without German citizenship.
Maria Schumann +8 more
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The GESIS Microcensus-Trendfile – A New Database for the Study of Social Change [PDF]
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2012 This section offers descriptions as well as discussions of data sources that are of interest to social scientists engaged in empirical research or teaching courses that include empirical investigations performed by students. The purpose is to describe the information in the data source, to give examples of questions tackled with the data and to tell ...
Lengerer, Andrea +3 more
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