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Towards Open Societies? Trends, Variations and Driving Forces of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe over the Past Three Centuries (TOWARDSOPENSOCIETIES)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Have our societies become more meritocratic, in the sense of more open , more fluid ? And if so, why, since when, and how quickly? We answer these points by studying intergenerational social mobility during the past 300 years. More precisely, we compare the social class positions of children with those of their parents in various epochs, countries, and within countries in various regions, and re ...
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Generations and Gender Programme: A European Research Infrastructure on the Causes and Consequences of Demographic Developments (GGP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The proposed project aims at improving the ability of the social sciences to explain the causes and consequences of demographic developments, and in particular of the changing relationships between genders and generations, in a manner that would allow working out sustainable responses to policy challenges. The project develops an infrastructure that provides for a breakthrough towards better und ...
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How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework (MULTILINKS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

The objective of this project is to investigate how changing social contexts, from macro-societal to micro-interpersonal, affect social integration, well-being and intergenerational solidarity across different European nations. Debates on ageing societies predominantly focus on the circumstances of the old. Our approach builds from three key premises. First, ageing affects all age groups: the youn ...
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