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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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Angebotsformen und Trägerstrukturen sozialer Dienste im europäischen Vergleich

Bahle, Thomas; Pfenning, Astrid - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

pioneers in developing social services. In countries like Germany, Belgium and France non-profit organizations have become …

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Living on the Poverty Line. Lone Mothers in Belgium, Germany, Great Britan, Italy and Sweden

Ruspini, Elisabetta - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

The paper focuses on the circumstances that explain lone mothers' dynamics of poverty in five different European … poverty comparatively, dynamically, and with a gender perspective. This paper attempts to answer questions such as: "How do … lone mothers experience poverty? Are poverty spells for lone mothers longer? Do poverty spells differ within different …

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The Institutionalization of Family Welfare: The Social Division of Labour in the Field of Child Care in Austria and Germany

Fix, Birgit - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1998

Comparative research on family policies has primarily focused on governmental activities for the family. Public expenditures and single governmental measures have been at the core of current discussion, with a specific focus on their impact on particular social situations of families as well as...

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Young Adults in Changing Welfare States.Prolonged Transitions and Delayed Entries for Under-30s in Finland, Sweden and Germany in the '90s

Laaksonen, Helena - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

The paper compares young adults' position in the '90s in three European welfare states: Finland, Sweden and Germany. Finland and Sweden, which represent the Nordic welfare state model, experienced deep recession at the beginning of the decade. This caused high youth unemployment and low labour...

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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 dimensions: (1) coverage, where it is asked under which conditions children are covered by the health care system; (2) access, where the family doctor principle in Denmark and...

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Education and Labour Market Entry across Europe : The Impact of Institutional Arrangements in Training Systems and Labour Markets

Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

Education is the main resource of young people entering the labour market for securing employment, in competing for adequate employment contracts and to fulfill their occupational aspirations. As European countries differ widely in the institutional structure of their education and training...

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Die Entwicklung selbständiger Erwerbstätigkeit in Westeuropa und den USA 1960-1995

Luber, Silvia; Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1997

Self-employment still forms an important element in the social structure of modern societies. However, the group of the self-employed has experienced an enormous economic and social change. After a long term decline until the beginning of the 1970s in almost all industrialised countries,...

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Politicisation and Political Interest in Europe: A Multi-Level Approach

Deth, Jan W. van; Elff, Martin - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2001

Political interest of citizens usually is depicted as an individual attribute that can be explained by referring to the resources and skills of the people concerned. The analyses presented here are based on a critical assessment of the explanatory power of these approaches in cross-national and...

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Changing Labour Markets and Early Career Outcomes : Labour Market Entry in Europe over the Past Decade

Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

The paper addresses the issue of the driving forces behind recent changes in labour market entry outcomes in Europe. Based on data for 12 European countries from the 1988-1997 European Community Labour Force Survey, the empirical analyses estimate panel data models to assess the effects of...

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