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The concept that went viral: Using machine learning to discover charisma in the wild. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Abstract The term “charisma” is recognized as sociology's most successful export to common speech. While sociologists habitually dismiss popular uses of the word, we address its vernacularity head on as a worthy object of study and as a potential resource for conceptual development.
Joosse P, Lu Y.
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Potential duration of unemployment benefits and labor market outcomes for older workers with health impairments in Germany

Bulletin of Economic Research, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 111-118, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This research note estimates the causal effects of a cut in the potential duration of regular unemployment benefits for older workers in Germany on the labor market outcomes of individuals with health impairments. The analyzed reform is a natural experiment that allows a difference‐in‐differences strategy with treatment intensity.
Inna Petrunyk, Christian Pfeifer
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Une réalité en noir et blanc, ou en plusieurs nuances de gris? La segmentation juridique et son effet sur la segmentation du marché du travail en Europe

Revue internationale du Travail, Volume 161, Issue 4, Page 667-690, December 2022., 2022
Résumé Les auteurs examinent l'effet du droit du travail sur la segmentation du marché du travail effective dans 22 pays européens entre 1991 et 2014. Après avoir isolé trois fonctions protectrices du droit du travail (fonctions régulatrice, hiérarchisante et compensatrice), ils associent statistiques descriptives et analyse multivariée pour faire ...
Irene DINGELDEY, Jean‐Yves GERLITZ
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Segmentation juridique et colonialisme en Afrique subsaharienne: l'informalité comme héritage d'une norme du travail basée sur l'exploitation

Revue internationale du Travail, Volume 161, Issue 4, Page 691-713, December 2022., 2022
Résumé Les marchés du travail de l'Afrique subsaharienne se caractérisent par une répartition asymétrique des hommes et des femmes entre secteurs formel et informel, imputable à une segmentation juridique fondée sur la race et le genre héritée des régimes coloniaux qui régissaient, notamment, le travail.
Heiner FECHNER
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Segmenter ou égaliser: le poids de deux modèles dans la pratique normative de l'OIT

Revue internationale du Travail, Volume 161, Issue 4, Page 715-740, December 2022., 2022
Résumé Dans son action normative, l'OIT a d'abord promu un modèle occidental, organisé autour de la relation de travail typique. Quand la voix du Sud et celle des femmes ont commencé à se faire entendre au sein de l'Organisation, un autre discours, axé sur l'égalité, a émergé, se superposant au précédent.
Jenny HAHS, Ulrich MÜCKENBERGER
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Science and Pension Politics

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2020
Recently, a German federal government commission presented its findings on how to reform the pension system. Part of the commission’s report and the subsequent debate deal with the role of experts and scientific advisors in pension politics. This article
Florian Blank
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Balancing the Books: Valuing Household Work in Weimar Germany

Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 752-770, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article explores the way that bourgeois women academics and social reformers adopted the quantified language of economics to advance their own position in the Weimar Republic. As statistics and indices proliferated as measures of national recovery, women attempted to record and describe their own economic realities within the household ...
Carolyn Taratko
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Diverse effects of shorter potential unemployment benefit duration on labor market outcomes in Germany

LABOUR, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 367-388, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper explores diverse effects of an unemployment benefit (UB) reform in Germany on labor market outcomes of individuals with health impairment. The reform induced substantial reductions in potential duration of regular UB for older workers, which is exploited in a difference‐in‐differences setting.
Inna Petrunyk, Christian Pfeifer
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Reconsidering Max Weber's journey to the United States: Sociological connections between race relations and American capitalism

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 291-301, Summer 2022., 2022
Abstract This article sets out to investigate Weber's major sources of interest in his American journey, namely, rampant capitalism as most evident in some large cities, the presence of Calvinism and of a bourgeois ethos in some Northern areas of the United States, and the persisting relevance of a precapitalist status order in the South.
Sandro Segre
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GENIE UND KLASSE: ROBERT BURNS UND DIE WIENER SOZIALDEMOKRATIE UM 1900

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 410-429, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Retrospective accounts of the life and works of Robert Burns offer us examples of how ‘genius’ functioned in the nineteenth century, not only as a concept of inspired, natural authorship but also as a way of establishing and stabilising class identity and belonging.
Paul Keckeis
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