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'Nie wieder Krieg! Nie wieder Völkermord!' Der Kosovo-Konflikt als europäisches Problem

Jahn, Egbert - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

Rarely in recent years has a violent ethnic conflict been so clearly foreseen by so many experts as in the case of Kosovo. The escalation of the conflict in early 1999 led to a specific combination of war, terror and genocide which was very different from traditional civil and international war....

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Education and Labour Market Entry across Europe : The Impact of Institutional Arrangements in Training Systems and Labour Markets

Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

Education is the main resource of young people entering the labour market for securing employment, in competing for adequate employment contracts and to fulfill their occupational aspirations. As European countries differ widely in the institutional structure of their education and training...

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When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to...

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Living on the Poverty Line. Lone Mothers in Belgium, Germany, Great Britan, Italy and Sweden

Ruspini, Elisabetta - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

settings (Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Sweden) using household panel data. My aim is to tackle the problem of …

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The Institutionalization of Family Welfare: The Social Division of Labour in the Field of Child Care in Austria and Germany

Fix, Birgit - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

Germany as exemplary cases. There are huge variations in these patterns to be found all across Western European societies …

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Die Entwicklung selbständiger Erwerbstätigkeit in Westeuropa und den USA 1960-1995

Luber, Silvia; Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1997

Self-employment still forms an important element in the social structure of modern societies. However, the group of the self-employed has experienced an enormous economic and social change. After a long term decline until the beginning of the 1970s in almost all industrialised countries,...

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Politicisation and Political Interest in Europe: A Multi-Level Approach

Deth, Jan W. van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

Political interest of citizens usually is depicted as an individual attribute that can be explained by referring to the resources and skills of the people concerned. The analyses presented here are based on a critical assessment of the explanatory power of these approaches in cross-national and...

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Changing Labour Markets and Early Career Outcomes : Labour Market Entry in Europe over the Past Decade

Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

The paper addresses the issue of the driving forces behind recent changes in labour market entry outcomes in Europe. Based on data for 12 European countries from the 1988-1997 European Community Labour Force Survey, the empirical analyses estimate panel data models to assess the effects of...

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Precarious Employment, Education and Gender: A comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom

Kim, Anna; Kurz, Karin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

relationships between the growth of precarious employment, the general educational expansion and gender in Germany and the United … employment in the UK where the educational system is less restrictive - that is, less rigidly stratified - than in Germany … expect that the female bias in precarious employment is relatively stronger in Germany than in the United Kingdom. Data from …

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Returns to Tertiary Education in Germany and the UK: Effects of Fields of Study and Gender

Kim, Anna; Kim, Ki-Wan - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2003

study and gender differences in Germany and the United Kingdom. As an indicator for educational returns we take the … labour market in Germany and the rather weak signal function of educational credentials in the UK, we expect that firstly the … overall educational returns to tertiary education would be greater in Germany, but that secondly the effects of fields of …

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