Values and Social Cohesion - VALCOS

Coordinating Institution: CEPS / INSTEAD
From: 01/02/2007
To: 31/01/2011
Budget: 289,547.00€
Contact(s): Borsenberger Monique

Summary

VALCOS is a research project focused on “Values and social cohesion”. The objective is to analyze the relation between these two concepts.

This central question will be treated in seven different chapters:

  • (1) Integration and solidarity
  • (2) Reconciliation between family and work
  • (3) Work, economy and social justice
  • (4) Democracy and citizenship
  • (5) Economic agents’ behavior: which roles for values?
  • (6) Generations and social cohesion
  • (7) Religion and believes. Most part of the work was to elaborate a common measure of social cohesion based on Bernard’s integrated scheme (1999).

This measure was created based on the data from 1999 and on the basis of 33 European countries. The work was also concentrated on further analyses of the EVS questionnaire from 1999 and 2008 for Luxembourg regarding the above mentioned topics.

Refereed Scientific Publications
  • Dickes Paul, Valentova Marie, Borsenberger Monique (2008) Social Cohesion: measurement based on the EVS micro data. In. Statistica Applicata, vol. 20, n°2, 2008
  • Dickes Paul, Valentova Marie, Borsenberger Monique (2009) Construct Validation and Application of a Common Measure of Social Cohesion in 33 European Countries. In. Social Indicators Research. Published online first 5 December 2009: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9551-5]
Other Publications
  • Klein Carlo: Social Policy and Happiness; the case of Luxembourg in B. Greve eds. Social Policy and Happiness in Europe, Edward Elgar, à paraître en 2009/2010.
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