As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations...

Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women‟s families histories and their personal incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany, By comparing three countries with very different welfare regimes, we seek to gain...

The theoretical contribution of this paper is to regard teachers’ evaluations with a prognostic claim aboutstudents’ future academic ability as a result of a special social situation in the classroom. We assume thatafter teachers have framed the social situation, particular scripts of action...

Als hilfreiche analytische Unterscheidung hinsichtlich der Ursachen für sozialeUngleichheiten bei Bildungszugang und -erfolg hat sich die Unterscheidung desfranzösischen Soziologen Raymond Boudon (Boudon 1974) zwischen primärenund sekundären Herkunftseffekten in der wissenschaftlichen und...

Self-employment for disabled people is significant from anumber of different policy perspectives:• promoting entrepreneurship among disadvantagedgroups (one of the aims of the SmallBusiness Service),• narrowing the gap in employment rates betweendisabled people and the rest of the population...