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Title:Skills and Recruitment in Flexible Work Settings Author(s):APITZSCH, BirgitDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2012/26Abstract:Over recent decades, we have witnessed profound changes in labour markets with an increase in flexible forms of work and employment, driven by organizational restructuring and institutional change at the macro- and at the ...

Title:The Political Effects of Becoming a Citizen: Solution or selection? Author(s):STREET, AlexDate:2012Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2012/19Abstract:The status of citizenship confers the right to participate as a full member of the political community. One might therefore expect foreign residents who acquire citizenship to become more engaged with politics. However, ...

Title:Gender and the division of labor in grandparent couples Author(s):LEOPOLD, Thomas; SKOPEK, Jan EUI affiliated

Date:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/13Abstract:Grandmothers provide far more childcare assistance than do grandfathers. This gender gap in grandparenting is well-documented, but not well-understood. The present study investigated whether, and to what extent, this gap ...

Title:The Italian labyrinth of adjudicating employment rights : in search of 'Ariadne's Thread' Author(s):COMANDÈ, DanielaDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/19Abstract:This paper belongs to a comparative research network coordinated by Professors Susan Corby and Pete Burgess and it deals with the process of adjudicating substantive employment rights in Italy. In particular, the study is ...

Title:Protection versus contraception : dealing with the twofold function of condom use Author(s):CORDERO COMA, JuliaDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/27Abstract:The twofold function of condom use - contraception and STD protection - should be taken into account when understanding attitudes towards this practice. Emphasis on the interpretation of condom use as a protective practice ...

Title:Politics without parties : political change and democracy building in Egypt before and after the revolution Author(s):COLLOMBIER, Virginie EUI affiliated

Date:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/35Abstract:This working paper is the first draft of a work in progress on party politics in contemporary Egypt. Written in early 2013, following the first round of free elections to take place after Hosni Mubarak had been ousted from ...

Title:Radical milieus and Salafis movements in France : ideologies, practices, relationships with society and political visions Author(s):ADRAOUI, Mohamed-AliDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2014/13Abstract:This paper deals mainly with the issue of radical Islam within French society over recent decades. More particularly, this study illustrates evolutions and the radicalization processes among some militant Islamic groups ...

Title:School-based vocational or workplace-based apprenticeship training ? evidence on the school-to- work transition of Hungarian apprentices Author(s):HORN, DanielDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/10Abstract:Workplace-based training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school to work transition. Apprentices have been shown to have lower initial unemployment probabilities as compared to other secondary-school ...

Title:Beyond constructivism’s liberal bias : Islamic norm entrepreneurs in a post-secular world society Author(s):BETTIZA, Gregorio; DIONIGI, FilippoDate:2014Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2014/10Abstract:This paper aims to broaden the scope of constructivist theory on norms diffusion by considering the case of religious normative action by non-Western international actors. Drawing on Habermasian normative debates about the ...

Title:Political tensions in Euro-varieties of capitalism : the crisis of the democratic state in Europe Author(s):REGAN, AidanDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/24Abstract:The European response to the financial cum sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone is leading to a democratic crisis of the state. It has exposed a tension between the national and the supranational in a multi-level polity ...

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