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When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Visser, Jelle - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

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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Self-employed or employee, full-time or part-time? Gender differences in the determinants and conditions for self-employment in Europe and the US

Lohmann, Henning - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

empirical analysis is based on the Labour Force Surveys from five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK …

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Precarious Employment, Education and Gender: A comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom

Kim, Anna; Kurz, Karin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

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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The Role of Public Discourse in European Social Democratic Reform Projects

Schmidt, Vivian A. - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 06

, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden. … 'compound' polities the 'coordinative' discourse among policy actors. This is demonstrated with examples from Germany, France …

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Making Ends Meet

Morner, Claudia Gardberg - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

In comparative family policy research there has been a growing need for comparative data and information on family policies in individual countries. Existing data sources are not sufficient, because they are too highly aggregated and do not focus on the family in specific terms. This has been...

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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?

Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640

The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...

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Health Services for Children in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain

Wendt, Claus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1999

This paper compares health services for children in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain using the following …, where the family doctor principle in Denmark and Great Britain is compared with the free choice of doctors in Germany and … is that the health insurance systems of Austria and especially Germany take health needs of children into consideration …

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