Title:Escaping Low-Wage Jobs: Wealth, Low Wages, and the Black-White Entrapment Gap
Author(s):MORILLAS, Juan RafaelDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this paper is to analyze individuals’ opportunities to escape low-wage jobs. More specifically, relying on an assets or wealth (as a distinct variable from income) theoretical framework, I provide an explanation ...
Title:Europe Through the Borders? The Implementation of INTERREG III-A France-Spain
Author(s):HARGUINDEGUY, Jean-BaptisteDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Assuming that structural funds are the catalyser of new forms of governing within the member states, this paper focuses on the Europeanisation process through the comparison of three cases of implementation of the INTERREG ...
Title:European citizenship and identity after enlargement
Author(s):THOMASSEN, Jacques; BACK, HannaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:In this paper we distinguish two rival theories on the relationship between European citizenship in the sense of a legal construct on the one hand and a European collective identity on the other hand. According to the first ...
Title:The European Constitution-Making and the Question of Religion
Author(s):UNGUREANU, CamilDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:In order to assess the debate concerning the constitutional recognition of Christianity in Europe, we need to pose the more general question of the role (if any) of the symbolic function of the modern democratic constitution ...
Title:The European Union and Global Financial Harmonisation
Author(s):QUAGLIA, LuciaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This research examines the influence of the European Union (EU) in international financial harmonisation over the last two decades. It asks why the EU ‘uploads’ international financial regulation in some (few) cases, ...
Title:European Worldviews: Ideas and the European Union in World Politics
Author(s):VENNESSON, PascalDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In international politics, what do the leaders of the European Union (EU) want? How do they understand international relations and how do they see the EU in world politics? The goal of this paper is to provide an introduction ...