Working Paper Series

No. 1
Marcel Raab, Michael Ruland, Benno Schönberger, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Dirk Hofäcker, Sandra Buchholz and Paul Schmelzer
GlobalIndex: A Sociological Approach to Globalization Measurement

No. 2 [PDF]
Johann Bacher and Joachim Nemella
Economic and Occupational Insecurity of Young People in Austria and its Consequences

No.3 [PDF]
Tomáš Katrnák, Martin Kreidl, Václav Kulhavý, Tomáš Sirovátka
Factors influencing the position of young people on the labour market and changes in mobility chances in the Czech Republic

No. 4 [PDF]
Heike Schröder and Dirk Hofäcker
HRM and the employment of older Workers: Germany and Britain Compared;

No. 5 [PDF]
Anna Baranowska
Changing patterns of entry into employment and motherhood in Poland - a cross cohort comparison.

No. 6 [PDF]
Katia Begall
Determinants of low Fertility in Post-Communist Estonia

No. 7 [PDF]
Rudi Wielers and Melinda Mills
The flexibilization of the Dutch labour market: The impact of globalization on the life course and inequality

No. 8 [PDF]
Juan Ignacio Martinez and Fasbrizio Bernardi
The Flexibilisation of the Spanish Labour Market. I
ts meaning and consequences for inequality from a life-course perspective

No. 9 [PDF]
Jelena Helemäe and Ellu Saar
Estonian way of globalisation: Globalisation in Estonia as advantageous for youngsters and ethnic Estonians

No. 10 [PDF]
Anna Baraowska
From employment guarantee to job competition – flexibilisation of the Polish labour market

No. 11 [PDF]
Bettina Stadler (Vienna, Austria) and Susanne Pernicka (Oldenburg, Germany)
Austria - Employment Flexibility in a Conservative Welfare Regime

No. 12 [PDF]
Ellen Ebralidze (Bamberg, Germany)
Labor market regulation and perceived job insecurities in the early career:
Do Danish employees worry less?

No. 13 [PDF]
Femke Munniksma (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Explaining Satisfaction and Perceived opportunities in the Flemish Society:
An exploratory study

No. 14 [PDF]
Sonia Bertolini (Turin, Italy)
The heterogeneity of the impact of labour market flexibilization on the transition to the adult life in Italy

No.15 [PDF]
Fabrizio Bernardi
Globalisation, individualisation and the death of social classes - An empirical assessment for 18 European
countries

No.16 [PDF]
Christina Purcell, Matt Flynn and Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya
The Effects of flexibilzation on Social Divisons and Career Trajectories in the UK Labour Market

No. 17 [PDF]
Paolo Barbieri
The Flexibilization of Employment and the Development of Social Inequalities: Italy

No. 18 [PDF]
Michael Tahlin and Tomas Korpi
Changing inequality in Sweden: Globalization and other causes

No. 19 [PDF]
Anna Baranowska and Marge Unt
Is it worth becoming an engineer in Central and Eastern Europe? The evidence from Poland and Estonia.

No. 20 [PDF]
Dirk Hofäcker
A Recipe How to Cope with the Challenge of Globalisation?
Developments in Labour Market Flexibilisation and Life Course Inequality in Denmark

No. 21 [PDF]
Rumiana Stoilova, Dirk Hofäcker and Jan-Rasmus Riebling
The gendered division of paid and unpaid work in different institutional regimes: Comparing West Germany, East Germany and Bulgaria

No. 22 [PDF]
Ellen Ebralidze, Dirk Hofäcker and Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Regime-specific job insecurity perception in the early career Differences in labour market regulation and their effects on individual job-loss worry

No. 23 [PDF]
Dirk Hofäcker and Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Globalization, Uncertainty and its effects on early family and employment lives

No. 24 [PDF]
Mieke Jansen
Employment insecurity and its repercussions on family formation - A theoretical framework

No. 25 [PDF]
Brigitte Schels and Sandra Popp
Young State Benefit Recipients in Germany and their Subjective Experience of Social Exclusion

No. 26 [PDF]
Marii Paškov
Labor Market Uncertainty and Private Pension Planning in Europe

No. 27 [PDF]
Simone Zdrojewski
Ethnic Disadvantages at Labor Market Entry in France?

No. 28 [PDF]
Jan Van Bavel and Tom De Winter
Becoming a Grandparent and Early Retirement in Europe

No. 29 [PDF]
Valentina Goglio
Could regional universities promote early entrance into the labour market and fight uncertainty?

No. 30 [PDF]
Dirk Hofäcker & Jana Chaloupková
Patterns of family life courses in Europe. A cross-national comparison of family trajectories and life course norms in European countries

No. 31 [PDF]
Lenka Formánková, Blanka Plasová, Jirí Vyhlídal, Tomáš Sirovátka
Specific features of female labour market participation in the Czech Republic

No. 32 [PDF]
Reka Geambasu
Paths and detours to the labour market. Working and homemaking of young adult women in Hungary and Romania from a comparative perspective

No. 33 [PDF]
Rumiana Stoilova, Ralitsa Simeonova-Ganeva, Tatyana Kotzeva
The impact of education and gender of mid-career labour income in a transitional economy. The case of Bulgaria

No. 34 [PDF]
Rumiana Stoilova, Dirk Hofäcker and Jan-Rasmus Riebling
Patterns of Social Inequality in the Division of Paid and Unpaid Work - A Comparison of Germany, Bulgaria, France and Hungary

No. 35 [PDF]
Vida Kanopiene
Women’s employment in Lithuania. Trends, structure and opportunities

No. 36 [PDF]
Sonja Blum
Family Policy Trends in Europe – Criss-crossing all typologies?

No. 37 [PDF]
Daniela Grunow Flexicurity, employment uncertainty and family formation of youth in Denmark

No. 38 [PDF]
Paola Torrioni
Parents, sons and daughters in Italy: towards a flexible socialization

Forthcoming Working Papers

No. 39 (forthcoming 2011)
Ellu Saar, Jelena Helemäe
Gendered patterns of social mobility in globalizing Estonia: towards greater social mobility?

No. 40 (forthcoming 2011)
Triin Roosalu & Kadri Täht 
Estonian women between care and career: mothers' occupational mobility

No. 41 (forthcoming 2011)
Dirk Hofäcker & Jana Chaloupková
Family structures and Family Norms – An International Comparison

No. 42 (forthcoming 2011)
Triin Roosalu, Marion Pajumets, Leeni Hansson
Doing Gender in Research on Paternity Leave: how does dual-earners’ postsocialist discourse compare to social democratic one?

No. 43 (forthcoming 2011)
Ursula Bazant
Female Employment in Europe - East/West-Divide?

No. 44 (forthcoming 2011)
Adam Mrozowicki & Marta Trawinska
Women’s union activism and trade union revitalisation: the Polish experience

2012-01-11
Final report available!
The final report of the TransEurope project, covering the period from June 2006 to June 2011 is available now. See the publication section for details. more...
2010-07-14
Programme for ECSR/QMSS2/TransEurope 2010 conference
The programme for the Joint ECSR/QMSS2/TransEurope Conference in Bamberg from September 30-October 2, 2010 is now online. Please visit the Conference Website for further details.
2010-07-14
Travel and exchange grants
The list of travel and exchange grants has been updated. more...
2010-01-28
Announcement - Workshop in Turin, 2010
From June 18-19, 2010, the European Science Foundation (ESF) TransEurope Programme will organize a two-day Young Researcher Workshop, entitled "Flexibilzation and Changing Life Course Patterns in a Globalizing Europe" at the University of Turin, Italy. Applications are welcome. more...
2010-01-25
Joint Conference 2010: ECSR, QMSS2 and TransEurope
From September 30-October 2nd 2010, the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) Social Science Networking Programmes "TransEurope - Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequalities" and "Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMS... more...
2010-01-24
Report: 3rd Yearly Workshop 2009 in Tallinn, Estonia
From September 4-5, 2009 the organized its third yearly workshop in Tallinn, Estonia focusing on the effects of globalization and transnationalization on women’s employment and family transitions. The workshop, organized by Prof. Ellu Saar and her team at the University of Tallinn, was attended by a... more...
2010-01-23
Report: 2nd Young Researcher Workshop 2009 in Groningen
From October 15-18, the ESF Social Science Networking Programmes "TransEurope" and "Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) 2" joined forces to organize both a two-day seminar as well as a Young Researcher Workshop, dealing with "Advances in Fertility and Family Research". more...
2009-10-09
Official Programme Book (Estonia 2009) now online!
The programme book on the TransEurope workshop 2009 at the University of Tallinn (Estonia, September 2009) is now online. more...
2009-06-25
CfP - Advances in Fertility and Family Research
The Call for Papers for the TransEurope Junior Resaercher workshop on "Advances in Fertility and Family Research" is online! more...
2009-06-15
TransEurope Sessions at the 21st SASE Annual Meeting in Paris, July 2009
The TransEurope Network organizes three separate sessions at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Paris from July 16-18. The sessions will focus on the consequences of globalization and transnationalization for both early careers and family formatio... more...
2009-06-15
TransEurope Sessions at the 29th IAGG World Congress in Paris, July 2009
The TransEurope Network organizes a session on "older workers under globalization" at the 29th World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Paris from July 5-9. more...
2009-06-15
Working papers - Update
The list of working papers has been updated. more...
2009-06-15
Second Young Researcher workshop
The TransEurope Network organizes a second Young Researcher workshop at Bamberg University in July 24-25, 2009. more...
2009-02-20
Call for Papers - Workshop 2009
Call for Papers started for the 3rd TransEurope Workshop in Tallinn/Estonia, September 4-5 2009 more...
2009-02-19
Report from Young Researchers Workshop
On January 29th, 2009, a TransEurope Young Researchers Workshop took place at Bamberg University. Read the report now! more...
2009-02-19
The list of working papers has been updated
The list of working papers has been updated. more...
2009-02-19
The list of travel grants has been updated
The list of travel grants has been updated more...
2008-12-22
Update - Travel and Exchange Grants / Working Papers
The List of TransEurope Travel and Exchange Grants as well as the Working Paper Section have been updated.
2008-11-18
Update - Travel and Exchange Grants
The List of TransEurope Travel and Exchange Grants has been updated! more...
2008-11-17
Report about TransEurope workshop 2008 now online!
A report about the recent TransEurope workshop on "Transnationalization, globalization and their Effects on mid-career mobility transitions" in Stockholm on Sept 5-6, 2008 is now online! more...
2008-08-01
The Flexibilisation of Employment in Europe - Report
A report about the recent conference on "The Flexibilisation of Employment in Europe", that was jointly organised by the TransEurope Network and the Jean Monnet Chair for European Studies, is now online!
2008-08-01
Update - Travel and Exchange Grants
The List of TransEurope Travel and Exchange Grants has been updated! more...
2008-05-21
TransEurope Network's session at 38th World Congress of IIS
The details for the TransEurope Network's session at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in Budapestare are now available! more...
2008-05-06
2nd TransEurope Workshop on Mid-Career Mobility, Stockholm, September 5-6, 2008
The 2nd TransEurope Workshop in Stockholm will take place at Stockholm University on September 5-6, 2008. The topic of the workshop will be "Transnationalisation, Globalization and their effects on mid-career mobility transitions". more...
2008-02-15
Reports of Conference and Summer School online
The European Science Foundation (ESF) TransEurope Research Network and the European Consortium for Social Research (ECSR) joined forces to host a two-day conference and a summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands. The reports are available online now. more...
2007-12-14
TransEurope Session at the 38th IIS World Congress in Budapest, June 26-30 (2008)
The TransEurope Network will organise an open session at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in Budapest, taking place from June 26-30, 2008. more...
2007-12-13
List of TransEurope Travel and Exchange Grants online!
2007-12-10
GlobalIndex data and Documentation are online!
The GlobalIndex constitutes a key result of collaborative TransEurope research in Programme Year I. It is a new and innovative aggregated index measure designed to capture the phenomenon of globalization on four separate dimensions for 97 countries in the time period 1970-2002. more...
2007-07-04
Programme of conference online
The Programme of the Joint ECSR/TransEurope Conference "Globalization, Social Inequality and the Life Course" is now online. It can be downloaded here more...
2007-04-12
Presentation of TransEurope Research at the 19th SASE Meeting in Copenhagen, June 28-30
TransEurope Network members will present and openly discuss first results of their comparative research work at the 19th International Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), entitled "Changing Political Economies: Macro trends and micro experiments". more...
2007-01-26
Announcement of Transeurope/ECSR Summer School and Conference
The Social Sciences Research Network TransEurope Project and the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ecsr) are glad to announce two major international scientific events in August/September 2007. more...
2006-11-09
The TransEurope Website is online!
After several weeks of development we are proud to present the website of the TransEurope-project. more...