Retirement Timing and Social Stratification: A Comparative Study of Labor Market Exit and Age Norms in Western Europe 9788376560410, 9788376560403

The monograph disseminates the very topical issue of retirement and its timing as the key to one of the greatest challen

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German Pages 329 Year 2014

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The mass expansion of higher education is one of the most important social transformations of the second half of the twe

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How widespread and deeply-imbedded are far-right ideologies and organizations in Europe? How have right-wing extremist a

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This important new book presents the findings of the first comparative study of unemployed youth in Europe using a large

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This pioneering survey evaluates the notions of class and order throughout European history since 1500. After a general

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Two hundered years of antiquarian and archaeological and archaeological interest has generated an archive of some 1350 V

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Only three lifetimes ago, Europe was a farming society ruled by families of monarchs. But with two seismic tremors-capit

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This study has two objectives. The first is to explain the nature and historical roots of the problems facing Polish for

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