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War Against Muslims Post 9/11?, Alev Dudek
War Against Muslims Post 9/11?, Alev Dudek
Alev Dudek
Part-Time Employment In Europe And Japan, Susan Houseman
Part-Time Employment In Europe And Japan, Susan Houseman
Susan N. Houseman
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Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport, Antonio Menéndez Alarcón
Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport, Antonio Menéndez Alarcón
Antonio V. Menéndez Alarcón
Book Review of Tribal Identities: Nationalism, Europe, Sport, ed. J.A. Mangan.
Less Is More? 20 Years Of Changing Minimum Income Protection For Old Europe’S Elderly, Tim Goedemé
Less Is More? 20 Years Of Changing Minimum Income Protection For Old Europe’S Elderly, Tim Goedemé
Tim Goedemé
Over the past two decades, pension reforms have been at the top of the agenda of social policy makers in Europe. In many countries, these reforms have resulted in less generous public pensions. At the same time, minimum income protection for the elderly has received attention from policy makers, but much less so from social policy researchers. Therefore, in this paper, I explore how benefit levels of non-contributory minimum income schemes for the elderly have evolved between 1990 and 2009 in 13 ‘old’ EU member states. Building on two new cross-national and cross-temporary comparable datasets on minimum income protection in …
Household Portfolio Choices, Health Status And Health Care Systems: A Cross-Country Analysis Based On Share, Vincenzo Atella, Brunetti Marianna, Nicole Maestas
Household Portfolio Choices, Health Status And Health Care Systems: A Cross-Country Analysis Based On Share, Vincenzo Atella, Brunetti Marianna, Nicole Maestas
Nicole Maestas
Health risk is increasingly viewed as an important form of background risk that affects household portfolio decisions. However, its role might be mediated by the presence of a protective full-coverage National Health System that could reduce households’ probability of incurring current and future out-of-pocket medical expenditures. In this paper, we first sketch a theoretical framework in which household portfolio decisions are a function of both individual and systemic characteristics. Then, we test its main implications based on SHARE data, studying the influence of current health status and future health risk on the decision to hold risky assets, across 10 European …
[Review Of The Book Labor Regulation In The Global Economy], Gary Fields
[Review Of The Book Labor Regulation In The Global Economy], Gary Fields
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] This is a practical and useful volume on labor standards in today’s highly globalized world. An introduction is followed by ten chapters, some of them general, talking about the ILO or the WTO, and some more specific, focusing on the United States and Europe. The general chapters cover the ILO, corporate codes of conduct, efforts to introduce labor standards into the multilateral trade regime, arguments for and against labor standards in trade, and policy implications. The specific chapters cover U.S. initiatives on child labor, labor standards in the bilateral trade agreements entered into by the United States and the …