Die Wissensgesellschaft als Gesellschaftsform, in der wissensbasierte Produktion eine herausgehobene Rolle spielt, ist kein neues Phänomen, sondern hat ihre Wurzeln im 19. Jahrhundert. Auch Beschäftigte in der industriebasierten Wirtschaft verrichteten Wissensarbeit. Die zunehmende...

Prólogo .-- Introducción .-- Capítulo I. Las mujeres en la sociedad de la información y del conocimiento: oportunidades y desafíos .-- Capítulo II. ¿Dónde están las mujeres? Trabajo, empleo y acceso y uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones .-- Capítulo III. Las...

Examining the occupational variation within non-standard employment, this book combines case studies and comparative writing to illustrate how and why alternative occupational employment patterns are formed. Non-standard employment has grown significantly in most developed economies, varying...

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

Inglehart applies a four item ranking scale to measure post-materialism which is used for cross-cultural and cross-temporal comparative purposes. The aim of this research is to test measurement invariance of the scale to establish to what extent the scale produces comparable results in time and...

Tolerance constitutes one of the core elements of a democratic political culture and an indicator of social cohesion. While the concepts of social tolerance and political tolerance have each generated a substantial body of literature, few studies have examined the two forms of tolerance...