59 research outputs found
Continued Work or Retirement? Preferred Exit-age in Western European countries?
The combination of greying populations, decreasing fertility rates and a marked trend in falling retirement age is profoundly challenging the sharing of resources and supporting responsibilities between generations in the developed world. Previous studies on earlier exit-trends have focused mainly on supply-side incentives and generally conclude that people will exit given available retirement options. Substantial cross-national variations in exit-ages however remain unexplained. This suggests that also normative factors such as attitudes to work and retirement might be of importance. Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity, as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve Western European countries. Analysis firstly shows how both men and women on average prefer to retire at 58 years, meaning on average approximately 7 or 5.5 years before statutory retirement age in the case of men and women respectively. Contrary to what is expected from previous research on supply-side factors, preferences for relatively later retirement is found within more generous welfare regimens and also within more extensively coordinated production regimes. For women, however, institutional effects do not remain once substantial cross-national differences in women's statutory retirement ages are taken into account.Continued Work; Retirement
Family Policy, Perceived Stress and Work-Family Conflict A Comparative Analysis of Women in 20 Welfare States
In what ways can family policy institutions be linked to womenâs perceived stress and work-family conflict? This study combines new institutional information, enabling a multi-dimensional analysis of family policy legislation, with micro data on individualsâ perceived stress and work-family conflict for 20 welfare democracies from the International Social Survey Program of 2002. By use of multilevel regression, individual- and country-level factors are brought together in simultaneous analyses of their relationships with perceived stress and workfamily conflict. Our evaluations do not lend evidence to hypotheses predicting higher stress and role conflicts in countries where family policy design offers extensive support to dual-earner families. Findings are more in line with institutionalist ideas on work-family reconciliation, indicating that family policy institutions supportive of dual-earner families counterbalance stress emanatingfamily policy legislation; perceived stress; work-family conflict; International Social Survey Program of 2002
Job Preferences in Comparative Perspective 1989-2015: A Multidimensional Evaluation of Individual and Contextual Influences
This article aims to provide a comparative assessment of work values across countries as well as over time. Differences and similarities in job preferences for eight central value dimensions are examined across nineteen countries between 1989 and 2015, made possible by four survey rounds from the International Social Survey, Work Orientation modules. Analyses of how extrinsic and intrinsic work values are related to individual and contextual factors are guided by contrasting theoretical approaches - modernization theory and a welfare-state institutional perspective. Four main results are reported. First, secure and interesting jobs are the most preferred job qualities, universally important to nearly all employees throughout all survey years. Second, values are markedly stable over time, but vary more across countries. Third, large majorities simultaneously value work autonomy, high income, advancement opportunities, jobs perceived as useful to society or helpful to others, indicating how individuals generally, are both intrinsically and extrinsically oriented toward work, with some gendered differences. Fourth partly in support of welfare-state institutional expectations, work values differ across countries mostly in relation to economic equality rather than economic development, so that both extrinsic and intrinsic work values are more important in more unequal societies
Advanced European Re-Entry System Based on Inflatable Heat Shields EFESTO project overview: preliminary IOD mission and system definition
The European Union H2020 EFESTO project is coordinated by DEIMOS Space with the end goals of improving
the European TRL of Inflatable Heat Shields for re-entry vehicles from 3 to 4/5 and pave the way to an In-Orbit
Demonstration (IOD) that can further raise the TRL to 6. This paper provides a synthesis of the EFESTO design and
experimental achievements and sums up the Inflatable Heatshield IOD mission and system design which is the final
step of the EFESTO project. First, the initial IOD design resulted from a dedicated concurrent engineering analysis is
introduced. The session core consisted of trading-off on the system configuration options derived from the sequential
design and testing campaigns, including the Inflatable Structure (IS) and Flexible Thermal Protection Systems (F-TPS)
key subsystems, but also on additional aspects such as launcher and landing site selection. The driving rationale here
corresponded to the maximization of the scientific return of the experiment while also taking into account feasibility considerations related to the current European Space Sector capabilities and market opportunities. The subsequent design phase focused instead on harmonizing and the mission and system definition and extending it with a preliminary assessment of the IOD system realization and mission implementation. This final output represents a unique contribution of the EFESTO project to the European know-how in inflatable heatshield technology and promotes the relevance of the EFESTO Consortium in the frame of a European re-entry technology roadmap
Career service papers - csp 18/21
InhaltsĂŒbersicht:
Christine Buchwald: Vorstellung eines Modells zur Förderung der Transferkompetenz durch ein studentisches Praktikum, inkl. Nutzungsmöglichkeiten fĂŒr Career Services
Irina Gewinner & Mara Esser: Geschlechtsspezifische Studienfachwahl und kulturell bedingte (geschlechts)stereotypische Einstellungen
Friederike Schulze-Reichelt, Wilfried Schubarth: Was nĂŒtzt mir das Studium? Zur Bedeutung des Berufsfeldbezuges fĂŒr den Studienerfolg. Befunde und Empfehlungen des StuFo-Projekts
Miriam Schmitt, Johanna M. Werz, Esther Borowski, Uwe Wilkesmann, Ingrid Isenhardt: Ein Online-Tool fĂŒr die Karriereplanung von Frauen in MINT-Berufen: Herausforderungen und Chancen
Sigrid Maxl-Studler, André Romano: Mobile Recruiting. Nutzung, Akzeptanz und Herausforderungen mobiler Bewerbungen aus Sicht der Generationen Y und Z
Jing Su, Vera Yu, Nelli Wagner: Ein chinesisches âJaâ ist nicht gleich einem deutschen âJaâ. Herausforderungen in der UnterstĂŒtzung von chinesischen Studierende
AlteraçÔes musculares e esqueléticas cervicais em mulheres disfÎnicas
Termo clĂnico, a disfonia envolve a todas as transformaçÔes e dificuldades durante a emissĂŁo vocal, as quais resultam no impedimento da produção normal da voz. Pacientes como esse problema, podem apresentar desequilĂbrio da musculatura crĂąniocervical e larĂngea e lesĂŁo orgĂąnica subjacente. A disfonia resulta em modificaçÔes fonatĂłrias, limitando atividades diĂĄrias relacionadas ao uso da voz, impactando na vida social e na qualidade de vida do indivĂduo. Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar alteraçÔes musculares e esquelĂ©ticas cervicais em mulheres com disfonia, conforme identificado na literatura cientĂfica sobre o tema. Para isso, realizou-se uma revisĂŁo integrativa de literatura, selecionando estudos nas bases de dados Literatura Latino-americana e do Caribe em CiĂȘncias da SaĂșde (Lilacs) e Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline). A partir da anĂĄlise qualitativa dos resultados, concluiu-se que dor intensa na regiĂŁo posterior do pescoço e na laringe se manifestam em mulheres disfĂŽnicas. Contribuem para isso a função prejudicada da articulação cervical e alteraçÔes da amplitude de movimento cervical. Com isso, compreende-se que o abuso vocal e o mau uso da voz como fatores mais comuns para a disfonia
Patologias atuais: a compulsĂŁo e a sociedade dos excessos: Current pathologies: compulsion and the society of excesses
O artigo em tela tem por objetivo analisar os aspectos biopsicossociais da conduta compulsiva de consumo. PropĂ”e-se a apresentar os elementos psicolĂłgicos contidos nesse comportamento, alĂ©m de verificar quais sĂŁo os resultados decorrentes dessa compulsĂŁo. O consumo compulsivo, tambĂ©m chamado de oniomania, Ă© um transtorno causado pela ansiedade despertada pela necessidade de comprar e saciada, somente, quando Ă© materializada a aquisição daquilo que se deseja comprar. O estudo em questĂŁo pode ser classificado como sendo de cunho bibliogrĂĄfico, a partir da anĂĄlise de documentos publicados em forma de artigos cientĂficos e livros em formato digital
Why Work? : Comparative Studies on Welfare Regimes and Individuals' Work Orientations
The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how different welfare and production regimes may have structured individualsâ work orientations into cross-national patterns by the late 1990s and early 2000s. Three different aspects of work orientations are considered in the three studies. Study 1: Welfare Regimes, Production Regimes and Employment Commitment: A Multi-level analysis of Twelve OECD countries. Since the introduction of the first social insurance schemes, questions have been raised regarding the trade-off between the adequacy and equity of benefits, and their effects on individualsâ work orientations. This study examines the role of both welfare and production regime institutions for explaining cross-national patterns in individualsâ employment commitment across twelve OECD-countries in the late 1990s. Results from multi-level analyses show firstly how employment commitment is stronger within more generous welfare regimes as well as within more extensively coordinated production regimes. Secondly, institutions are found to be more important for structuring the attitudes of persons with less stable labour market attachment. Thirdly, for men, there are clear positive cross-level interaction effects between institutional structures and individualsâ socio-economic status, whereas institutions matter more equally regardless of socio-economic status for women. In relation to the concerns with the allegedly negative unintended consequences of welfare regime institutions for creating distortions, these seem to be unwarranted with regards to employment commitment. To the contrary, there appears to be a âparadox of employment commitmentâ: clearly earnings-related benefits of more generous welfare regimes appear to generate stronger commitment to take part in paid work. Study 2: Unemployment Insurance and Work Values in Twenty-Three Welfare States. This study addresses the question of whether extended âsocial rightsâ, specifically in the form of unemployment insurance, is undermining peopleâs willingness to perform their âsocial dutiesâ in the form of productive work. Multi-level analyses is used to evaluate how three aspects of institutional design may explain cross-national patterns of work values across twenty-three industrialized countries in 2000. There is a consistent tendency for a positive relationship between more traditional work values with higher generosity of benefit levels as well as more demanding eligibility conditions. To the contrary, a negative relationship is found in relation to duration periods. The strength and significance of these relationships however differ across the three value dimensions studied. Firstly, the clearest pattern is found in relation to how work is valued as a âduty towards societyâ, where all institutional effects are significant. Secondly, in relation to valuations of how âunemployed persons should accept job offers or lose their benefitsâ, the positive effects of the eligibility factor are non-significant, and the negative duration effects are only significant among working men. Thirdly, in relation to how work is not valued as a âfree choiceâ, institutional effects are only significant when working women within the sixteen âolderâ welfare states are compared. The effects of economic development are inconsistent across value dimensions and in the opposite direction expected from modernization theory; more traditional work values are found to be stronger in countries with higher levels of economic development. Study 3: Continued Work or Retirement? Preferred Exit-age in Western European countries. The combination of greying populations, decreasing fertility rates and a marked trend in falling retirement age is profoundly challenging the sharing of resources and supporting responsibilities between generations in the developed world. Previous studies on earlier exit-trends have focused mainly on supply-side incentives and generally conclude that people will exit given available retirement options. Substantial cross-national variations in exit-ages however remain unexplained. This suggests that also normative factors such as attitudes to work and retirement might be of importance. Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity, as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve Western European countries. Analysis firstly shows how both men and women on average prefer to retire at 58 years, meaning on average approximately 7 or 5.5 years before statutory retirement age in the case of men and women respectively. Contrary to what is expected from previous research on supply-side factors, preferences for relatively later retirement is found within more generous welfare regimes and also within more extensively coordinated production regimes. For women, however, institutional effects do not remain once substantial cross-national differences in womenâs statutory retirement ages are taken into account
Job Preferences in Comparative Perspective 1989â2015: A Multidimensional Evaluation of Individual and Contextual Influences
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