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Maternal Employment inPoland: Betweenre-traditionalization andadaptationtonew societalchallenge
(2018)
The Rise of Right-wing populism in Europe. Different or similar causes in Western/Eastern countries?
(2018)
The following paper is a comparative study of labour market policies and strategies of two welfare states, Germany and the United Kingdom (the UK), aiming to smooth the transition of the labour force to the industry 4.0. The fourth industrial revolution arises number of challenges for the labour market, therefore one should be seeing certain changes in production and employment regimes of the given countries. This study tries to find an evidence of changes in employment and production regimes, described by Duncan Gallie (2007) in “Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work”. The study answers the guiding research questions:
-Can any changes in production and employment regimes be seen?
-What kind of solutions do welfare states, belonging to different types types of employment and production regimes offer for addressing the various challenges that has emerged in the current revolution? (The challenges will be identified in the chapter 3.)
The following hypothesis is tested: under conditions of such rapid technological advancement, the production and employment regimes in Germany and the United kingdom are becoming more and more similar.
The study analyzed Gallie’s Employment and Production regimes (2007), identified main characteristics of each regime and recreated some of the statistical tables of the theoretical framework by using renewed statistical data. The study concludes that changes in production
regimes are indeed happening, and based on new statistical data both countries have strong initial and weak continual educational schemes, whilst there is no significant change in terms of employment regimes.
This thesis analyses social segregation patterns in Berlin and Brussels by first clarifying the driving forces and the outcomes of social segregation and then presenting case studies of the two cities. This thesis argues that the five major driving forces of social segregation are economic restructuring, low state intervention, liberal housing regime, large and fast-growing immigration, and historical events such as city divisions and crises. When social segregation in one city is severe, city residents are faced with deeper relational conflicts. This will lead to the growth of entirely different cultures and values, and thus increase misunderstanding between different communities. Case-studies revealed the driving forces and outcomes of social inequality of Berlin and Brussels. Berlin, having grown rapidly after reunification, has seen the greatest challenges as a result of a steep increase of immigration. Brussels, in contrast, having long been a large and well-developed globalized city, sees economic inequality as the major driving force of its social segregation. Ultimately, the comparison of the two cities cannot be confirmed without empirical analysis, however, this thesis provides an overview of social segregation patterns in Berlin and Brussels, and a strong foundation for further analysis of whether Berlin can expect to develop a segregation pattern similar to Brussels’s in the future
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF WORK: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLITICAL APPROACHES IN FINLAND AND GERMANY
(2019)
The EU Work-Life Balance Directive and its contribution to active paternity in the European Union
(2020)
In recent years, social media platforms are revolutionizing in a way that users are able to communicate by increasing the exposure to highly stigmatized issues in society. Sexual abuse, as for example, is one such topic that recently took all over social media by simply using the hashtag #MeToo. The aim of it was to empower and motivate women to share posts and stories related to previous sexual abuses that they had experienced. Individuals with different backgrounds and ethnicities began sharing their unfortunate personal experiences with the wide public. Hence, this thesis analyzes how the #MeToo movement escalated from an online trending hashtag to a social movement with the assistance of social media and media coverage.
Considering the purpose of the #MeToo movement, I will mostly focus on the sexual harassment and cyber-violence towards women. Both factors, can profoundly impact women’s psychological, social, and spiritual health. Hence this has a further impact on women’s participation in society. To testify this, I will further analyze the EU drafts and policies that have been undertaken in order to minimize, thus eliminate any sexual violence towards women. Of course, sexual and cyber violence can refer to a range of sexual violations as for instance, the child sexual abuse, but in this paper, the focus will mainly be on the #MeToo movement which does not claim to be a movement for all forms of sexual or gender violence. Hence, the children are not the main audience of the movement and I will therefore not focus on them in this dissertation.
The data collected in this research will further demonstrate through my dissertation the impact that social media has on the 4th wave of feminism, by getting into the roots of the #MeToo movement. Furthermore, with this dissertation, I would like to examine the connection between social media and feminism on its own, and lastly going beyond the #MeToo movement.
Privatisation has become one of the hot topics in Germany since the 1980s. Particularly together
with the refugee boost after 2012, the state has transferred its responsibility to provide
accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees to private entities. This paper analyses the impact
of privatisation of accommodation services for asylum seekers and refugees on the physical
conditions of the centres and the living conditions of people living in these centres. It firstly gives
a theoretical framework of privatisation and conveys privatisation of public services as a welfare
state strategy to cut the expenses. Then it explains the status of asylum seekers and refugees in
different welfare state regimes, namely Germany, and lastly, it focuses on a case study where the
state-run accommodation centres and the outsourced accommodation centres are analyzed. By
examining the impacts of privatisation of respective services, this paper mainly addresses the lowcost and high-profit mentality of these private firms and security problems arising from
outsourcing accommodation services for asylum seekers and refugees.
Anti – discrimination rules and affirmative action in support of women on the FIFA management board
(2020)
This master thesis contains an overview of several fields of LGBTQIA+ rights, their
state and situation of the LGBTQIA+ people in the EU. It describes the discourses and
attitudes towards LGBTQIA+ rights in Hungary and Poland, using them as an
illustrative examples of conservative Member States of the EU. A theoretical and
historical context analysis explains and interprets the situation of the CEE region of the
EU, it relates its historical specifcs with the current reality of being part of EU and
draws conclusions on the emerging trends of conservative pushback against liberal
values. Finally it contains EU’s stances and competences related to LGBTQIA+ rights.
The conservative pushback against EU’s equality and anti-discrimination policies
appears to be a response to the top-down approach in imposing norms, stemming from
historical specifics.
This master thesis aims to identify the defining variables for a market ramp-up of electric road systems (ERS) and to develop scenarios for the potential market launch of the technology in Germany and Europe. For this purpose, a comprehensive analysis of the political, regulatory and economic variables is conducted, which finally leads to the generation of different market ramp-up scenarios.
Die Corona-Pandemie, die gegenw rtig in der Form einer vierten Welle mit neuen
Viren-Varianten uml uft (Stand 2021/2022), stellt die Arbeitswelt global vor
neuartige Probleme. Hierzu geh rt besonders die Einführung einer Homeoffice-
Pflicht für Unternehmen, mit der diese ihren Mitarbeitern*Innen die gesetzlich
vorgeschriebene M glichkeit einr umen müssen, von zu Hause aus eigenst ndig
unter Verwendung entsprechender digitaler Werkzeuge die berufsm ige Arbeit
vorzunehmen (https://www.bundesregierung.de/; Abruf 28.11.2021). Allgemein
wird in der Fachliteratur die Erwartung ge u ert, dass die Homeoffice-Pflicht in
der bundesdeutschen Arbeitswelt eine dauerhafte Einrichtung bleibt, da sich mit
der Praxis dieser Arbeitsform sowohl für die Unternehmen als auch für die
Arbeitsnehmer*Innen gewisse Vorteile herauskristallisiert haben (Riedl, Wengler
2021, S. 22ff). Die Corona-Pandemie, die mit Stand 2021/2022 seit zwei Jahren
unvermindert anh lt, zwang nahezu s mtliche Institutionen der Bundesrepublik
(und teilweise weltweit) zu einem Lockdown, der verhindern sollte und soll, dass
sich in gr eren Menschenansammlungen das Corona-Virus in explosiver Form
ausbreit und m glicherweise die Kapazit ten des Gesundheitssystems überfordert.
Die Dramatik einer solchen Situation lie sich 2020 in Norditalien beobachten,
wo die H he der Todesraten dazu führte, dass das Gesundheitssystem
zusammenbrach. Im Rahmen des Lockdowns erfolgte relativ am Beginn der
Pandemie die Einführung des Homeoffice, das von etlichen Unternehmen schon
immer praktiziert wurde, jedoch in dem neuen Ausma die Organisationen vor
Herausforderungen stellte, die bisher nicht bekannt waren.