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Title:Social investment returns over the life course Author(s):HEMERIJCK, Anton
; PLAVGO, Ilze 
; BURGOON, Brian; FERNANDES, Daniel ; PÖYLIÖ, Heta Pauliina; LEHMUS-SUN, Annika Hanna Maaria Date:2024Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI; RSC; Working Paper; 2024/14Abstract:The principal objective of this contribution is to assess the well-being returns of social investment welfare provision in a comparative European perspective. The overarching objective of social investment welfare provision ...
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Title:Emergent numeracy : how the Crowd Wisdom of non-rounding respondents generates accurate immigration estimates Author(s):DEUTSCHMANN, Emanuel Date:2024Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI; RSC; Working Paper; 2024/15; Migration Policy CentreAbstract:Survey respondents overestimate, on average, the number of immigrants living in their country. This phenomenon, known as immigration innumeracy, contradicts the wisdom-of-crowds effect, which suggests that large samples ...
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Title:Swearing loyalty : should new citizens pledge allegiance in a naturalisation oath? Editor(s):LENARD, Patti Tamara; BAUBÖCK, Rainer Date:2024Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI; RSC; Working Paper; 2024/13; GLOBALCITAbstract:In many countries, immigrants conclude their naturalisation by swearing a citizenship oath. In her kick-off piece, Patti Lenard defends naturalisation oaths as permissible on three grounds. First, even if mandatory, they ...
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Title:The evolution of global cleavages : a historical analysis of territorial and functional world alignments based on automated text analysis, 1843−2020 Author(s):CARAMANI, Daniele ; GUROVA, Siyana; WIDMANN, Tobias Date:2024Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI; RSC; Working Paper; 2024/07; ERC Advanced Grant GLOBAL; European Governance and Politics ProgrammeAbstract:This paper examines the global cleavages that structure world politics from the mid-19th century to the present. It develops the concept of cleavage applied at the global level and measures empirically how territorial ...
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Title:Plurilateral agreements, multilateralism and economic development Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M. ; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.Date:2024Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI; RSC; Working Paper; 2024/12; Global Governance SocietyAbstract:Plurilateral agreements among sub-sets of economies have a long history within the multilateral trading system. Plurilaterals may appear superficially less attractive than a set of non-discriminatory multilateral rules ...
