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Dimeglio, Isabelle; Janmaat, Jan Germen; Mehaut, Philippe – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The aim of this paper is to test the connections between the indicators used in the literature on social cohesion, which usually reflect "general" values or behaviours, and indicators specific to a particular space, namely the labour market. A key question is the stability of the social cohesion's indicators when moving from a societal…
Descriptors: Homogeneous Grouping, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Correlation
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Colak, Mehmet Selman; Ege, Aylin – Social Indicators Research, 2013
In 2010, EU adopted a new growth strategy which includes three growth priorities and five headline targets to be reached by 2020. The aim of this paper is to investigate the current performance of the EU member and candidate states in achieving these growth priorities and the overall strategy target by allocating the headline targets into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance, Social Indicators, Research Methodology
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Reig-Martinez, Ernest – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper calculates a human Wellbeing Composite Index (WCI) for 42 countries, belonging to the European Economic Space, North Africa and the Middle East, as an alternative to the shortcomings of other well-known measures of socio-economic development (i.e. Gross Domestic Product per head and Human Development Index). To attain this goal,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Income, Economic Development
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Hansen, Thomas; Slagsvold, Britt; Moum, Torbjorn – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The study explores and distinguishes links between parental status (childless persons, parents with residential children, and empty nest parents) and a range of psychological well-being outcomes in midlife and old age. Data are from the first wave of the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation (NorLAG) study (n = 5,189). We separate outcomes…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Hoskins, Bryony L.; Mascherini, Massimiliano – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This article defines Active Citizenship within a European context as a broad range of value based participation. It develops a framework for measuring this phenomenon which combines the four dimensions of Protest and Social Change, Community Life, Representative Democracy and Democratic values. The European Social Survey 2002 is used to populate…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Democracy, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Gallie, Duncan; Russell, Helen – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This article explores the influence of working conditions on work-family conflict (WFC) among married/cohabiting employees across seven European countries. Using data from the European Social Survey, the paper first investigates the role of working conditions relative to household level characteristics in mediating work-family conflict at the…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Family Life, Family Characteristics, Conflict