To What Extent Do Financial Strain and Labour Force Status Explain Social Class Inequalities in Self-Rated Health? Analysis of 20 Countries in the European Social Survey

In the European context, Spain is a late modernizer, which experienced a delayed educational expansion. However, after 1970, and especially after the restoration of democracy in 1978, the Spanish education system completed its expansion and modernized significantly, converging with its neighbours on most outcomes related to the quality of education. Notwithstanding remarkable levels of stability of institutional design and framework policies, it is widely believed that education in Spain is subject to constant political reforms. This is partly explained by the frequent use of education in political and electoral debates, and, particularly, by the overrepresentation in public debates of a limited repertoire of normative and organizational aspects of educational policies. While the current education system in Spain has achieved a high level of quality combined with low levels of educational inequality by social background when compared with other developed countries, there are secular problems that need to be addressed, particularly the reform of teacher selection, training programmes, and careers; modernization of school curricula; adaptation of pedagogical innovations; rationalization of retakes; and diversification of tracks to offer less successful students an alternative and prevent early dropout. This chapter describes this transformation and problematizes key educational reforms in Spain, focusing on the democratic period, using different international datasets including PISA (OECD, several years), PIACC (OECD 2016), TIMSS, and PIRLS (IEA, several years), the European Social Survey as well as several national sources of data including the Spanish General Social Survey (CIS 2013) and the Labour Force Survey (several years).

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Trade unionism in Europe: Are the working class still members?

European Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.1177/0959680119838881 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 107-120

Author(s):

Carsten Strøby Jensen

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Working Class ◽

Survey Data ◽

Trade Union ◽

Union Membership ◽

Trade Unions ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Upper Class ◽

Social Survey ◽

Trade Unionism

How far does social class position influence the likelihood that employees will be members of a trade union? I use European Social Survey data to compare trade union membership of ‘working-class’ and ‘middle- and upper class’ employees in different European countries. Although the former dominate the trade unions in absolute numbers in most (but not all) countries, the likelihood that the latter will be members of a trade union is higher in most of the countries analysed.

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Social capital and self-rated health among older adults: a comparative analysis of Finland, Poland and Spain

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x13001025 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 653-667 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

ELENI KOUTSOGEORGOU ◽

FREDRICA NYQVIST ◽

MIKAEL NYGÅRD ◽

MILDA CERNIAUSKAITE ◽

RUI QUINTAS ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Social Networks ◽

Good Health ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Informal Networks ◽

Social Survey ◽

Self Rated Health ◽

General Trust ◽

Low Levels ◽

The Eu

ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to investigate the association between structural and cognitive aspects of social capital and self-rated health among adults aged 50 or more, living in three countries: Finland, Poland and Spain. The study, which was based on data from the European Social Survey (2008/09), was a part of the EU research project COURAGE in Europe. More specifically the paper assesses the association between social capital indicators – informal social network and general trust – and good self-rated health through single-level and joint effects analyses. The results showed that Finland was a country of high social capital, in terms of both social networks and general trust, while Spain showed low levels of general trust and Poland low levels of informal social networks. As to the association between social capital and self-rated health, high levels of general trust and high networks were found to be associated with good health among all countries' respondents. Older persons living in partnerships, with higher education, higher levels of engagement in informal networks and general trust, were found to be more likely to show good self-rated health. Our comparative analyses revealed different associations between social capital and health according to country.

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Health and happiness among homosexual couples in Europe

International Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/s1749367600003702 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 31-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hanneke van den Akker ◽

Joris Blaauw ◽

Marcel Lubbers ◽

Rozemarijn van der Ploeg ◽

Peer Scheepers ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Risks ◽

Sense Of Belonging ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Social Survey ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Gay Community ◽

Self Rated Health ◽

Specific Health

Data from five waves (2002–10) of the European Social Survey were examined to see the extent to which heterosexual and homosexual couples differ in their health and happiness. Homosexual people had lower levels of self-rated health and happiness. We suggest that those who experience discrimination are more strongly integrated in their gay community, which, in turn, may bring positive effects in terms of happiness due to a sense of belonging, but may be accompanied by the specific health risks associated with this community.

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Perceived Discrimination and Self-Rated Health in Europe: Evidence from the European Social Survey (2010)

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0074252 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. e74252 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Javier Alvarez-Galvez ◽

Luis Salvador-Carulla

Keyword(s):

Perceived Discrimination ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Social Survey ◽

Self Rated Health

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Flexicurity in tijden van crisis in Nederland en Europa: een vergelijkende analyse van sociale modellen

Mens en maatschappij ◽

10.5117/mem2014.4.muff ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 89 (4) ◽

pp. 371-394 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ruud Muffels

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Broad Spectrum ◽

Labour Force ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Welfare States ◽

Differential Impact ◽

Social Models ◽

Social Survey ◽

Employment Insecurity ◽

European Welfare States

Summary Flexicurity in times of crisis in the Netherlands and Europe: A comparative analysis of social modelsThe purpose of the article is to highlight the consequences of the recent economic crises for the way European welfare states and notably the Dutch one dealt with the challenge to maintain the balance between flexibility and security goals with regard to the labour market. This will be pursued against the background of the theory of social models in which social models are conceived as ideal-typical configurations of labour market and social security institutions which reflect different ideas about the functioning of the labour market. We distinguish three models among which the flexicurity model, that is assumed to bridge the two opposite poles of the broad spectrum of social models, i.e. the liberal Anglophone variant and the Classical welfare state variant. The European Labour Force Survey of 2008 is used to analyse the effects of various labour market institutions on the employment performance of countries and regions before the crisis whereas the European Social Survey is used to research the differential impact of the crisis along the broad spectrum of European welfare states on the employment insecurity of various groups such as the youngsters, elderly and the low-skilled.

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Positional, mobility and reference effects: How does social class affect life satisfaction in Europe?

10.31235/osf.io/4adhe ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Caspar Kaiser ◽

Nhat An Trinh

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Social Class ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Social Survey ◽

Class Mobility ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Class Origin ◽

The Impact ◽

Do So ◽

Diagonal Reference Models

In this study, we analyse the effects of social class on life satisfaction and develop a theoretical framework that shows how social class affects life satisfaction through five pathways. Informed by this framework, we estimate the direct effects of class destination and class origin, the effect of own intergenerational class mobility as well as the effects of others’ class position and mobility (so-called reference effects). To do so, we utilize European Social Survey (ESS) waves 1 to 5 (2002-2010). We obtain information on life satisfaction as well as destination and origin class for about 100,000 respondents in 32 European countries. Our mobility analyses are performed with diagonal reference models, which allow for the consistent estimation of mobility effects. We find: (1) Class destination consistently and strongly structures life satisfaction across Europe. (2) Own class mobility positively impacts life satisfaction, particularly in Eastern Europe. (3) Other’s class mobility has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction. Especially the latter finding points to the hitherto neglected importance of reference effects when considering the impact of social class onlife satisfaction.

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