Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation

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Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation - AISSR

APPARENT: Transition to parenthood: International and national studies of norms and gender division of work at the life course transition to parenthood

This ERC funded project is the first comprehensive study to assess contemporary parenting norms and practices and their diffusion. The project develops a comparative framework to study prevalent motherhood and fatherhood norms, images, identities and behaviour in current societies.

Educational systems and four central functions of education

This NWO-funded project studies the impact of four characteristics of educational systems (differentiation, standardization, vocational orientation, and track mobility) on four central functions of education (to improve equality of opportunity, to enhance efficient sorting and learning, to prepare for labour market allocation, and to socialize into active participation in society).

ELITES: pathways to success

ELITES addresses the successful children of immigrants and by analyses differences in the pathways, resources and individual strategies that have contributed to occupying a successful position in society.

GEITONIES

GEITONIES (meaning ‘Neighbourhoods' in Greek) is a research project funded by the European Union's 7th Framework programme. GEITONIES is concerned with how interethnic interactions, in local neighbourhoods, in European cities, may influence the creation of a more tolerant, cohesive and integrated society.

GINI-Project: Growing Inequalities' Impact

The core objective of the European funded project GINI is to deliver important new answers to questions of great interest to European societies: What are the social, cultural and political impacts that increasing inequalities in income, wealth and education may have? For the answers, GINI combines an interdisciplinary analysis that draws on economics, sociology, political science and health studies, with improved methodologies, uniform measurement,
wide country coverage, a clear policy dimension and broad dissemination.

Income Position of the Elderly in Different Welfare State Regimes: The Interdependence of Pension

This NWO-funded research concerns an empirical test of the supposed existence of a trade-off or an inverse relationship between home-ownership and pensions provision. Using a longitudinal framework, the researchers analyse how developments on both policy domains have evolved in an interdependent way, resulting in a specific institutional setting affecting the economic situation of the elderly - not only in terms of their poverty risk, but also in terms of the replacement of post-retirement income, and the way this is achieved through the so-called 'pension mix' and the combination of pensions with other assets, of which housing wealth usually forms a large part.

Productive Skills, Positional Good, or Social Closure? Three Mechanisms for the Education Effect across Structural Institutional Settings

This NWO funded research project connects various theories of why education has an effect on labour market outcomes (e.g. employment, wages, and flexible contracts) with structural-institutional settings in which such theories would form the most likely mechanism.

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