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Impartible inheritance versus equal division : a comparative perspectice centered on Europe and Subsaharan Africa
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Baland, Jean-Marie - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000681024
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Socio-economic impacts of heterogeneity among foreign migrants: Research and policy challenges
Nijkamp, Peter - 2011
Migration is a key feature of a modern and open society. A new feature is that migration shows a high degree of heterogeneity and hence has various complex impacts on the economy. This paper aims to map out the causes and consequences of heterogeneous immigration flows. It sets out a policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317651
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Lessons from migration impact analysis
Bakens, Jessie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011
In the age of migration, many developed countries face an increasing heterogeneity of their residents. Migrant flows often lead to political discussion about the impact of migrants on labour markets, economic growth, and urban agglomeration processes, and consequently many of these causalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127780
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Cluster development and policy
Raines, Philip (contributor) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001671502
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Analysing Russian food expenditure using micro-data
Elsner, Karin - 1999
Since the beginning of transition, the level and structure of average food consumption and expenditure of Russian households has changed substantially. This development has gone together with a steep increase in the share of food in total expenditure. Notable differences with respect to food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299411
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Empirische Untersuchung zweier Individualisierungshypothesen mit Querschnittsdaten aus 28 Ländern
Kohler, Ulrich - 2004
Die Individualisierungshypothese impliziert mit zunehmendem gesellschaftlichen Wohlstand ansteigende Heterogenität von Lebenslagen einerseits, und abnehmende Prägekraft sozialer Klassen und Schichten andererseits. Zur Untersuchung dieser beiden Implikationen wird die Heterogenität und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304177
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Perception of health inequalities in different social classes, by health professionals and health policy makers in Germany and the United Kingdom
Mielck, Andreas - 1998
The paper focuses on the following question: What is known about the existence and the extent of health inequalities, their explanations and potential ways to reduce them, by members of the lower social class, by health professionals and by health policy makers? By health inequalities we mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304969
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Komparative und nicht-komparative Ansätze zur Analyse der Europäisierung der Sozialstrukturen
Schäfers, Bernhard - 1999
In diesem Arbeitspapier wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit Europa als neue Bezugsebene der Sozialstrukturanalyse zu … Veränderungen führen, weil es die Bezugsebene Europa gibt, wird als „Europäisierung der Sozialstrukturen“ bezeichnet. Diskutiert … wird u.a., ob nicht die deutsche Sozialstruktur durch die Existenz der Europäischen Union und durch den weiteren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306630
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Projektbericht "Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland: Werte und Einstellungen"
Bunselmeyer, Elisabeth; Holland-Cunz, Marc; Dribbisch, … - 2013
Der Bericht beschreibt Erkenntnisinteresse, Anlage und Erstellung der Studie 'Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland: Werte und Einstellungen'. Im Mittelpunkt der Befragung stehen die gesellschaftspolitischen Einstellungen und Handlungsmaximen sowie die Karrieremotive und Lebensverläufe der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325114
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The Socially Stable Core in Structured Transferable Utility Games
Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; van der Laan, Gerard; Talman, Dolf - 2004
We consider cooperative games with transferable utility (TU-games), in which we allow for a social structure on the set of players. The social structure is utilized to refine the core of the game. For every coalition the relative strength of a player within that coalition is induced by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325448