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Human capital, that is the earnings capacity of individuals and
households in the labour market, is a key factor for both individual
job histories and resulting patterns of social stratification. At
the same time, human capital is no static, fixed amount of knowledge
or training, but depends on being flexibly adapted to processes of
technological change and the contingencies of modern economies and
life courses. Against this background, the project emphasises the
productive value of welfare state institutions that serve to
activate, maintain, or readjust the economic capacity of individuals
and households, and attempts to provide an empirical assessment of
the magnitude of such effects in selected cases. In particular, the project focuses on how welfare state institutions affect the impact of critical events - specifically, unemployment and childbirth - on individuals' subsequent earnings capacity, human capital and labour market careers more generally. Its empirical analyses rest on a cross-national comparison of work history data for Germany, Sweden, Britain and Ireland, and will assess the net effects of welfare regimes as well as of more specific institutions like unemployment insurance, training programmes parental leave schemes or public day care provision. The project is funded jointly for 2003-2005/06 by the German Science Foundation, the Swedish Science Council and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences under the European Science Foundation Programme "European Collaborative Research Projects in the Social Sciences" > Project network
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