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’s explicit endorsement in cases of high issue salience. Polling data from Britain and Germany show that the salience of European … issues is clearly higher in Britain than in Germany. We thus conclude that British governments face tougher domestic … countries’ different approaches to the integration process: Germany as a role model of a pro-integrationist member state and, in …
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International comparisons of Civil Services usually overlook the difficulties due to differing definitions of the civil service in national legal systems. Comparative statistics are therefore extremely misleading, as they are at best based on formal-legal criteria instead of being based on...
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Abstract AbstractThis article challenges the methodological nationalism of the convergence debate by arguing that multilevel governance destabilizes the coalitions thought to underpin liberal and coordinated varieties of capitalism. Existing efforts to explain how coherent production regimes...
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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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settings (Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Sweden) using household panel data. My aim is to tackle the problem of …
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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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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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empirical analysis is based on the Labour Force Surveys from five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK …
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and Germany. One main aim of the paper will be to elaborate the main structure of the pension schemes in the civil …
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Britain and Germany aims at investigating to what extent the observed patterns of transition processes are shaped by their …
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