This important book builds a bridge between the literature on popular welfare deservingness
and social welfare policies. It examines the relationship between the two, exploring the close …

This study investigates whether pensioners with a foreign ethnic background are perceived
as less deserving to receive a pension than are native pensioners. It focuses on Germany as …

In factorial survey designs, respondents evaluate multiple short descriptions of social objects
(vignettes) that experimentally vary different levels of attributes of interest. Analytical …

After two decades of research, the evidence in cross-cultural studies has shown that the lay
theories of happiness are not universal. Significant variations have been found in the beliefs …

This paper addresses perceived age discrimination of older persons in European countries.
This disturbing issue has become all the more prominent, having doubled over a relatively …

The welfare state regulates social policies and reallocates scarce resources. For the social
legitimacy of the welfare state, it is important that the public supports the principles …

Este primer capítulo servirá como base para la problematización del estudio, es decir, sobre
las culturas activistas presentes en el movimiento contra el sistema de pensiones. El …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries used short-time work schemes, ie,
subsidies for temporary working hours reductions due to production drops. In Germany …

This chapter broadens the scope by also investigating popular support for many other,
differently designed varieties of basic income that deviate in some way from the ideal-typical …

Finance structure is an increasingly important area of corporate finance for it shows the
pattern of a firm's total firm financing. Both theoretical and empirical research largely focuses …