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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836955
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Drivers of change or cut-throat competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568371
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
Chantarat, Sommarat; Barrett, Christopher B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents’ escape from poverty traps. We model endogenous network formation among households heterogeneously endowed with both traditional and social network capital who make investment and technology choices over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790335
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Profil de Privations au Cameroun : Une analyse combinée Pauvreté et Exclusion sociale
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of...
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What happens when the migration barriers for 10 new EU member states already fall in 2009? First estimates
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
With the ongoing debate in Austria on skilled workers from Eastern Europe for the Austrian labour market the question of immigration policy again is in the centre of the public debate. As the extension of transitional periods for the new MS in the field of migration from 2009 to 2011 is more and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836141
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European Union Economy System Dynamic Model Development
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
integration model in EU is developed. Model is tested only for one EU country, Latvia. Results of the paper show failure of the …
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Development of System Dynamic Model of Latvia’s Economic Integration in the EU
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU … integration of the Latvian economy into EU, is developed. In the model international financial flows connected with Latvia and EU … integration in the EU, but on its basis it is possible to create models of regional cohesion in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367975
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Migrationsbezogene Verbleibs- und Rückkehrabsichten im SOEP
Stegmann, Tim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
research on migration and integration. With the German Socio-economic Panel dataset (SOEP) provided by the German Institute for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533558
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An action plan to assess the current situation of maternal & newborn care at government health facilities in Jharkhand, India
Kumar, Sudesh; Singh, Janet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Maternal and child health care especially safe motherhood services are an important factor in the primary health care and are the responsibility of the government and ministry of health. Consolidating and strengthening health network and quality of primary health care is one of the priority...
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