Die Autorin zeigt auf, welche Faktoren die wegweisende Entscheidung der Studienwahl beeinflussen. Sie analysiert sowohl soziale Determinanten, wie die Anzahl der Geschwister, die Familienkonstellation und insbesondere die soziale Herkunft, als auch institutionelle Einflussfaktoren, wie...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked. Arguing that income- and consumption-based poverty...

Introduction -- Design of the Study -- Complex Societal Problems -- Human Problem Handling -- Group Decision Support Systems -- Methodological Demands for Handling Complex Societal Problems -- The Compram Methodology: A Methodology for Policy Making on Complex Societal Problems -- Global Safety...

This book provides a theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of social dilemmas (SDs). A SD is a social situation where cooperation maximizing collective or social profit is different from defection maximizing individual profit. Problems arise when too many group members choose to...

Artem Boltyenkov explores the ways in which the hearing impaired can afford aided hearing. The most humane option for all hearing impaired is full reimbursement healthcare economic policy. Unfortunately, providing free aided hearing for all hearing impaired in the population is very costly....

Allgemeine Grundlagen einer Wohngemeinschaft -- Gesetzliche Grundlagen. Juristische Einschätzungen. Kostenträger -- Planungsphase -- Konzept einer Wohngemeinschaft -- Wirtschaftliche Grundlage -- Bauplanung einer Wohngemeinschaft -- Personaleinsatzplanung -- Hygienemanagement -- Ausstattung --...

Vorwort -- Teil I: Rahmenbedingungen einer erfolgreichen Arbeitsmarkt-Inklusion -- Teil II: Rekrutierung -- Teil III Arbeitsplatzgestaltung/-anpassung -- Teil IV Arbeitszeitmodelle -- Teil V: Weiterbildung und Karrieremanagement -- Teil VI Gesundheitsmanagement -- Teil VII Führung und Kultur --...

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...

The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of...