Going across Europe for an apprenticeship? A factorial survey experiment on employers’ hiring preferences in Germany

SUSTAINABLE URBAN REGENERATION, AN ONGOING DISCOURSE (WESTERN) EUROPE, GERMANY

Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment In this paper, we use unique data from a field experiment in the Swedish labor market to investigate how past and contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability of being invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using registry/survey data, we have complete control over the ...

Patient Preferences for Attributes of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Medications in Germany and Spain: An Online Discrete-Choice Experiment Survey

INTRODUCTION Understanding patient preferences for attributes of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) medications may help explain how the attributes differentially affect patient perceptions and behaviors. In this survey, we quantified the relative preferences among patients in Germany and Spain in separate analyses. METHODS A stated-preference, discrete-choice experiment (DCE) survey was designe...

A factorial experiment for heritability estimation of the reproductive traits in Persian sturgeon, Acipenser persicus

Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus) is one of the most valuable species of fish native to the Caspian Sea and Iran's waters. This study was designed to estimate heritability of Persian sturgeon eggs. In this study, 3 wild Persian sturgeons caught from the south coast of the Caspian Sea in Guilan and transferred to fish breeding programs in Shahid Beheshti rearing and propagation complex were ...

A survey study on student preferences regarding pathology teaching in Germany: a call for curricular modernization

BACKGROUND Pathology is a discipline that provides the basis of the understanding of disease in medicine. The past decades have seen a decline in the emphasis laid on pathology teaching in medical schools and outdated pathology curricula have worsened the situation. Student opinions and thoughts are central to the questions of whether and how such curricula should be modernized. METHODS A sur...