Seminars in Politics and Society
Seminars in Politics and Society
Seminars in Politics and Society Heike Solga (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
"The impact of competencies and certificates on labor market outcomes in advanced societies"
Seminars in Politics and Society Sven Steinmo (EUI)
"Bringing People Back In: Institutions, History and Culture?"
Seminars in Politics and Society Peter Scholten (Rotterdam)
"The politics of migrant integration: recent trends in Europe"
Seminars in Politics and Society Jill Rubery (Manchester Business School)
"From women and recession to women and austerity"
Seminars in Politics and Society Tiziana Caponio (University of Torino)
"Competing Frames of Immigrant Integration in the EU: geographies of social inclusion in Italian regions"
Seminars in Politics and Society Klaus Armingeon (Bern)
"Germany: The trading state unleashed"
Seminars in Politics and Society Francesco Giudici (IULM)
"Gendered occupational shifts in the transition to parenthood: The influence of personal networks"
Seminars in Politics and Society Pier Luigi Sacco (IULM)
"Culture 3.0: from cultural spillovers to socially embedded cultural participation. The cultural welfare perspective"
Seminars in Politics and Society Lucio Baccaro (Geneva)
"Small Differences That Matter: The Impact of Discussion Modalities on Deliberative Outcomes"
Seminars in Politics and Society Anton Hemerijck (Amsterdam)
"Affordable Social investment as no-regret Policy"
Seminars in Politics and Society Stefano Sacchi (Unimi)
"Conservative and innovative policy change in labour market reforms. A policy process-based explanatory framework" abstract The main explanations of labour policy reforms focus on either endogenous or exogenous factors that have triggered change in some specific critical junctures. As such, they seek to explain the introduction of reforms, i.e. why policy change occured. By contrast, building on theories of…
Seminars in Politics and Society Livia Olah (Stockholm)
"Gender Equality Perceptions, Division of Paid And Unpaid Work, And Partnership Dissolution In Sweden" at Campus Luigi Einaudi abstract With the increase in female employment and the decrease in gender labor specialization there has also been a marked change in gender role attitudes. An increasing proportion of women and men has come to prefer gender…
Seminars in Politics and Society Marco Simoni (LSE)
"Institutional Roots of Economic Decline: Lessons from Italy"
Seminars in Politics and Society Fabio Franchino (Università di Milano)
"The Design of Fiscal Governance Rules of the European Union"
Seminars in Politics and Society Steffen Heinrich (University of Duisburg Essen)
"The employment-pension nexus in Coordinated Market Economies: a Comparative Study of Germany and Japan since 2001" abstract This presentation analyses the implications of the pension reforms for employment relationships and HR policies in the two prime examples of coordinated market economies (CME), Germany and Japan, in the past 10 years. While studies of recent public…
Seminars in Politics and Society Nicole Scicluna
"Politicization without democratization: The impact of the Eurozone crisis on EU constitutionalism" abstract The paper will demonstrate how the European integration process overburdened EU law in an attempt to overcome political deficiencies, with negative consequences for the Union’s democratic legitimacy. The analysis is framed by the ‘twin crises’ of twenty-first century EU constitutionalism: the defeat…
Seminars in Politics and Society Angela Garcia Calvo
"Upgrading in Spain: an institutional perspective" abstract This paper summarises the main contributions of a book manuscript that aimed to explain the recent rise of Spain’s firms in complex service sectors, and the parallel fall in capital and skill intensive manufacturing sectors through the analysis of the institutional structure that enabled it. I argued that…
Seminars in Politics and Society Giulia Dotti Sani
"Within-Couple Inequality in Earnings and the Relative Motherhood Penalty. A Cross-National Study of European Countries" abstract While much research has focused on the difference in earnings between childless women and men, mothers and fathers, somewhat less is known on the difference in earnings between women and their partners. This article investigates within couple earnings inequality…
Seminars in Politics and Society Juana Lamote de Grignon Perez
"Social class and subjective well-being: a cross-country comparison" abstract In almost every country, individuals in the upper class enjoy, on average, higher subjective well being (SWB) than individuals in the lower class. However, the size of the SWB gap varies signicantly across countries; in other words, class seems to determine SWB to a greater extent in…
Seminars in Politics and Society Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia)
"Babies, Bonds, and Buildings: Policy Implications of the Links among Pensions, Housing Finance Systems and Fertility Rates" abstract Many rich OECD countries now have fertility rates well below the replacement rate. Low fertility implies declining population and potential problems for pension systems trying to finance an ever-rising ratio of retirees to workers. Additionally, surveys show…