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Theoretical background and objectives

The way in which citizens define their national identity can conflict with how it is defined by political elites at the macro-level. It can be difficult to infer one from the other. Citizens do not always agree with or follow elite discourse and policy making, while elites do not always listen to citizens. Thus, understanding the subjective meaning citizens assign to their national identity, their sense of belonging to an “imagined community” (Anderson, 1991) including everyday rituals and practices ought to be an independent exercise that extends and complements research at the macro-level.

Theoretical background and objectives

Older immigrants are a growing population group in many European countries, but very little is known about their financial situation. The project uses data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC, 2004-2012) to document the extent of ethnic inequality in retirement income in 16 Western European countries. A major goal is to identify institutional factors that are related to the size of the retirement income gap between immigrants and natives. The factors considered include the pension system, immigration and integration policy, welfare state transfers and labor market regulation.

Dieses Projekt beschäftigt sich vorwiegend mit dem neu entstehenden europäischen System der Corporate Governance. Dieses aktuelle „Feldexperiment“ stellt eine einzigartige Gelegenheit dar, den komplexen Prozess des Aufbaus eines neuen Corporate Governance-Systems einschließlich einer Neuzusammenstellung der Beziehungen zwischen den Stakeholdern zu beobachten. Folgende Schlüsselfragen werden hierbei behandelt: