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Refereed essays Web of Science
The concept of anomie is one of the classics of sociological theory. Developed by scholars such as Emile Durkheim and Robert K. Merton, the concept refers to the absence of clear social norms and values and to a lack of sense of social regulation. However, whereas Merton focused on features of relative deprivation that cause anomie, Durkheim was primarily interested in the link between rapid social ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
76 (2006), 3, S. 467-498
| Denis Huschka, Steffen Mau
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Diskussionspapiere 601 / 2006
The enlargement of the European Union in May 2004 by ten new member states bear increasing challenges in creating social cohesion among its citizens and regions. Social cohesion is understood here in a broad sense as a coalescence of European societies in such a way that living conditions and quality of life of its citizens converge. This paper's empirical focus is on the two core life domains that ...
2006| Wolfgang Keck, Peter Krause
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Diskussionspapiere 610 / 2006
We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using sibling-difference estimators ...
2006| Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
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Diskussionspapiere 627 / 2006
Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of earnings, we find a persistent and rising labor market divide between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians ...
2006| Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of social exclusion. At the individual level, social exclusion is viewed in terms of deprivation of the person concerned with respect to different functionings in the society. At the aggregate level we treat social exclusion as a function of individual exclusions. The class of subgroup decomposable social exclusion measures using a set of ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
52 (2006), 3, S. 377-398
| Satya R. Chakravarty, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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Diskussionspapiere 628 / 2006
The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration and ethnic self-identification are used to compose linear measures of the ...
2006| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Laura Zimmermann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This article compares women's and men's economic relations in East and West Germany following the 1990 reunification to exemplify the impact of varying opportunity structures on women's relative contribution to family income. West Germany's takeover set in motion a rapid transformation of East German institutions and employment structures. The analysis shows that women in West Germany became less dependent ...
In:
Feminist Economics
12 (2006), 4, S. 643-665
| Heike Trappe, Annemette Soerensen
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Externe Monographien
Bonn:
IZA,
2006,
18 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2350)
| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Laura Zimmermann
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Diskussionspapiere 643 / 2006
The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a combination of commitments to the home ...
2006| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Externe Monographien
Bonn:
IZA,
2006,
27 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2420)
| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann