Title:Social Protection for Inclusive Development. A New Perspective in EU Cooperation with Africa
Author(s):GIOVANNETTI, GiorgiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Technical ReportAbstract:The European Report on Development examines the need and potential for expanding social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as its feasibility and likely development impact. In contrast with the view that Sub-Saharan ...
Title:A Social Psychology of Party Behaviour
Author(s):TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, AnnaDate:1997Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book offers a new approach for the analysis of party campaigning. The author reviews critically social-psychological theories regarding social influence and inter-group relations in order to construct new analytical ...
Title:Social Representations and Economic Integration in the Mediterranean Area
Author(s):CASCINELLI, PaolaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Do social representations affect the efficiency of economic policy? To deal with this problem I studied
the limited results of European Policy toward the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area. While the
classical approach ...
Title:Social representations of religious pluralism in Switzerland
Author(s):BECCI, Irene; BOVAY, ClaudeDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Les auteurs de cet article proposent une analyse des représentations sociales concernant la diversité religieuse en Suisse et les attentes à l'égard de l'État dans ce domaine. L'analyse empirique de données récentes montre ...
Title:Social Rights in a Globalised Economy
Author(s):DEAKIN, SimonDate:2005Type of Publication:Contribution to bookSeries/Report no.:Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
Title:Social Rights in Europe
Author(s):DE BURCA, Grainne; DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2005Type of Publication:Book
Title:Social Roles as an Effective Learning Mechanism
Author(s):SCHLAG, Karl H.; POLLOCK, GregoryDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Using the 'Buyer-Seller' game as an idealized form of social interaction across complementary roles, we examine two forms of 'myopic learning', where individuals try to improve their response to their immediately past ...
Title:Social Safety Nets: The Role of Education, Remittances and Migration
Author(s):NYARKO, Yaw; GYIMAH-BREMPONG, KwabenaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:We study the role of education as a social protection mechanism. We compare the effectiveness of direct cash handouts in comparison to education over the long-term in reducing the vulnerability to poverty. We also look at ...
Title:Social Security and Risk Sharing
Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; KUBLER, FelixDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we identify conditions under which the introduction of a pay-as-you-go social security system is ex ante Pareto-improving in a stochastic OLG economy with capital accumulation and land. We argue that these ...
Title:Social Security and Risk Sharing
Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; KUBLER, FelixDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Social Security and Risk Sharing
Piero Gottardi
Felix Kubler
Abstract
In this paper we identify conditions under which the introduction of a pay-as-you-go social security system is ex-ante Pareto-improving in a stochastic ...
Title:Social Stratification and Cultural Consumption in Hungary: Book Readership
Author(s):BUKODI, ErzsebetDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Drawing on data from a recent time-budget survey, this paper investigates the relationship between cultural consumption, specifically book readership, and social stratification in Hungary. Results show that status, education ...