Title:The impact of inheritance on the distribution of wealth
Author(s):KOHLI, Martin; KÜNEMUND, Harald; SCHÄFER, Andrea; SCHUPP, Jurgen; VOGEL, ClaudiaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Der Beitrag stellt ausgewählte aktuelle Befunde zum Erbschafts- und Schenkungsgeschehen dar und analysiert den Einfluss von Erbschaften auf das Vermögen. Aus der Längschnittperspektive auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen ...
Title:The Impact of the Type of Education and of Educational Enrolment on First Births
Author(s):MARTIN GARCIA, Teresa; BAIZAN, PauDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we re-examine two established findings concerning the effect of education on women's family formation. In addition to considering educational choices as a way of accumulating human capital, we also see them ...
Title:The international dimension of democratization: testing the parsimonious approach
Author(s):OBYDENKOVA, AnastassiaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the importance of the international context on regime change. It provides evidence that geographic proximity to the European Union (EU) does not result in the spread of democracy. In contrast, ...
Title:The Legal-Domestic Sources of Immigrant Rights - the United States, Germany, and the European Union
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the evolution of two types of immigrant rights-alien rights and the right to citizenship-across three polities (the United States, Germany, and the European Union). It argues that the sources of rights ...
Title:The liberal wing of the national assembly (1969-73) a sociological profile
Author(s):FERNANDES, Tiago LuisDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The liberal wing was a group of deputies constituting a reformist, pro-democracy sector of the internal semi-opposition to the authoritarian New State regime during its final years. I have used a prosopographic study of ...
Title:The Measurement of Pure Negative Freedom
Author(s):CARTER, IanDate:1992Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Examining the question of whether or how far freedom is measurable contributes to the analysis of the concept of freedom in two ways. First, it involves attempting to establish criteria for answering questions about 'how ...
Title:The Migrant Worker Factor in Labour Market Policy Reform
Author(s):DEVITT, CamillaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Research on labour market policy reform in Western Europe has given insufficient attention to the 'migrant worker factor'. Concerns about reduced availability of migrant workers, as well as more traditional concerns regarding ...
Title:The Modernity of Social Life
Author(s):WAGNER, PeterDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Over the past two decades, the term 'modernity' has ever more replaced the term 'modern society' in sociological analyses of contemporary societies. This signals the attempt by sociologists to advance beyond the theorem ...
Title:The Omc - A Deliberative-Democratic Mode of Governance? the Cases of Employment and Pensions
Author(s):DE LA PORTE, Caroline; NANZ, PatriziaDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The open method of co-ordination's (OMCs) emphasis on transparency, democratic participation and learning has led to a particular interest in this governance mechanism from the perspective of deliberative democracy. This ...
Title:The Origins of European Citizenship in the First Two Decades of European Integration
Author(s):OLSEN, Espen D. H.Date:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By tracing conceptions of citizenship in the early period of European integration until 1971, this article argues that the Maastricht Treaty was not year zero in the EU citizenship discourse. In contrast to previous research, ...