The focus of the study is to examine and relocate gender equality in higher education using Capability Approach as the background frame. The paper discusses how gender relations are rooted in the socio-cultural matrix in India. It attempts to explore the factors prevalent in the structure which...

The article clarifies the concept of value for customer, demonstrates challenges related to the concept itself and its measurement and sheds new light on the consequences of conceptual and metric choices. The analysis focuses on three points: first, it shows, how the definition and delineation...

The question of "Justice" still divides social research, moral philosophy, and public discourse. Three principles of distributive justice (allocation rules) occupy center stage in the debate: merit (equity, proportionality), need, and equality. Yet their relation remains diffuse, and current...

The German government is planning to reform Hartz IV by replacing it with a simpler and more accessible system known as Bürgergeld. Using a random-based survey of eight job centers in North Rhine-Westphalia, this Weekly Report considers the perspectives of the long-term unemployed: What do they...

Mit dem Bürgergeld plant die Ampel-Koalition eine Reform des Hartz-IV-Systems mit Erleichterungen für Leistungsbeziehende. Dieser Wochenbericht nimmt auf Basis einer zufallsbasierten Befragung in acht Jobcentern in Nordrhein-Westfalen die Perspektive von Langzeitarbeitslosen ein: Wie schätzen...

Für das Gros der Bevölkerung sind Erwerbseinkommen die zentrale materielle Ressource während des aktiven Berufslebens. Sie bestimmen nicht nur maßgeblich die gegenwärtigen finanziellen Möglichkeiten der Beschäftigten, sondern beispielsweise auch deren künftige Rentenansprüche. Das...

This article highlights the potentials for migration research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a longitudinal panel dataset of private households in Germany running since 1984. We provide a concise overview of its basic features, describe the survey contents and research...