By way of introduction This report provides the fi rm foundation for anchoring the research that will be performed by the GINI project. It subsequently considers the fi elds covered by each of the main work packages: ● inequalities of income, wealth and education, ● social impacts, ●...

Introduction This report describes the results of work package 5 of the European research project Growing Inequalities’ Impacts (GINI). The GINI project is funded by the seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. Its main mission is to study the effects of economic and educational...

This article examines inequalities in highbrow cultural participation in 18 countries. It tests whether inequalities in such participation occur because of the status conferred by consumption of high culture, or whether they are more a result of differences in cognitive competencies....

The aim of this paper is to explain people’s support for development aid. While both attributes like philanthropy and solidaristic value orientations have been broadly analyzed by scholarship, this paper uses these conceptual bases in answering what shapes people’s attitudes towards...

This paper analyses the integration of active labour market policies for two groups of unemployed from a theoretical perspective. In general a model with only one type of agent performs better than a model with two types of agents. If there are two types of agents part of the effort of one agent...

Dit rapport onderzoekt de voor- en nadelen van geïntegreerde dienstverlening in de keten van werk en inkomen, gebruik makend van een historische analyse. Het rapport geeft een beschrijving van alle ontwikkelingen op dit vlak in de Nederlandse geschiedenis, sinds de basis voor het sociale...

Als gevolg van de economische crisis staat de uitzendbranche onder druk. Dit rapport doet verslag van een enquete onder 178 vestigingen van uitzendbureaus in heel Nederland en onderzoekt of rol van uitzendbureaus als bemiddelaar tussen werkzoekenden en werkgevers is verschoven als gevolg van de...

Working-age households where no-one is in work have become an increasing focus of policy concern even before the economic crisis, and the EU has included household joblessness in its new poverty reduction target for 2020. This paper focuses on the variation across EU countries in the prevalence...

Previous research suggests that where inequality is high, participation is low. Two arguments are generally put forward to explain this finding: First, inequality depresses participation because people have diverging statuses and therefore fewer opportunities to share common goals. Second,...