TY  - GEN
A1  - Class, Fabian
A1  - Kohler, Ulrich
A1  - Krawietz, Marian
T1  - The Potsdam Grievance Statistics File
BT  - new data on quality of life and political participation for the German Democratic Republic 1970–1989
T2  - Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
N2  - The newly collected “Potsdam Grievance Statistics File” (PGSF) holds data on the number and topics of grievances (“Eingaben”) that were addressed to local authorities of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the years 1970 to 1989. The PGSF allows quantitative analyses on topics such as participation, quality of life, and value change in the German Democratic Republic. This paper introduces the concepts of the data set and discusses the validity of its contents.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 97 
KW  - Potsdam Grievance Statistics File (PGSF)
KW  - German Democratic Republic (GDR)
KW  - Eingaben
KW  - Participation
KW  - Quality of Life
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412843
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Khalil, Samir
A1  - Kohler, Ulrich
A1  - Tjaden, Jasper Dag
T1  - Is There a Rural Penalty in Language Acquisition? Evidence From Germany's Refugee Allocation Policy
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Emerging evidence has highlighted the important role of local contexts for integration trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees. Germany's policy of randomly allocating asylum seekers across Germany may advantage some and disadvantage others in terms of opportunities for equal participation in society. This study explores the question whether asylum seekers that have been allocated to rural areas experience disadvantages in terms of language acquisition compared to those allocated to urban areas. We derive testable assumptions using a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) which are then tested using large-N survey data (IAB-BAMF-SOEP refugee survey). We find that living in a rural area has no negative total effect on language skills. Further the findings suggest that the “null effect” is the result of two processes which offset each other: while asylum seekers in rural areas have slightly lower access for formal, federally organized language courses, they have more regular exposure to German speakers.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 151 
KW  - refugees
KW  - allocation policies
KW  - rural
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - intergroup contacts
KW  - language courses
KW  - integration
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-566264
SN  - 1867-5808
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -