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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Determinanten der Entlohnung

Bechter, Barbara - 2009

Ziel der Arbeit ist die Analyse von Lohndifferentialen. Der überwiegende Anteil der Studien erklärt Lohndifferentiale auf Basis der neoklassischen Theorie, derzufolge die Lohnhöhe das Ergebnis der Transaktionen von Arbeitsangebot und -nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt sind. Beobachtbare...

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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor. Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...

Kohnert, Dirk - 2006

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...

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Understanding the socio-economic distribution and consequences of patterns of multiple deprivation: An application of self-organising maps

Whelan, Christopher T.; Lucchini, Mario; Pisati, Maurizio; … - 2009

In this paper we apply self organising maps (SOM) to a detailed set of material deprivation indicators from the Irish component of European Union Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The first stage of our analysis involves the identification and description of sixteen...

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A macro policy for poverty eradication through structural change

Sobhan, Rehman - 2005

This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...

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Diversity and public goods: A natural experiment with exogenous residential allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Social class as a moving average

Brynin, Malcolm - 2010

Are social (occupational) classes coherent, distinct entities? While they reflect an underlying reality, they are more fragmented than theory suggests. It is hypothesised that skill mismatches mean that each class includes a substantial proportion of poorly paid people who could be in the class...

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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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