Title:Higher Education Reform and the Renewed Lisbon Strategy: Role of Member States and the European Commission
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; VEUGELERS, ReinhildeDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Discussions on problems in higher education in Europe typically focus on rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of internationalisation, the lack of private and public ...
Title:Hiring Quality Labour
Author(s):HERRING, RobbinDate:1994Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:The Historical Turn and International Relations ‘Beyond Objectivism and Relativism’
Author(s):MCCOURT, DavidDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This paper assesses the recent calls for an ‘historical turn’ in International Relations (IR), and argues that they should be viewed in light of a more widespread movement in the social sciences and humanities ‘beyond ...
Title:The Home Bias of the Poor: Terms of Trade Effects and and Portfolios across the Wealth Distribution
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Wealthier people generally hold a larger part of their savings in risky
assets. Using the US Survey of Consumer Finances, I show that wealthier
households also have a higher portfolio share of foreign assets. This ...
Title:The House that Market Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality in Socialist Yugoslavia
Author(s):LE NORMAND, BrigitteDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Scholars have argued that Eastern European socialist regimes found themselves forced to compete with the capitalist consumerist model showcased in West Germany in order to maintain their legitimacy in the eyes of the ...