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There is a vast amount of literature that considers the importance of the family as an institution. Little attention, however, has been given to the impact of family structures on institutions, their dynamics, and the ability to change them. This limits our ability to understand distinct institutional developments B and hence growth B in the past and the present. This paper illustrates this by ...

The Caribbean has long afforded U.S. and Canadian geographers with a rich venue of study-abroad opportunities. Physical and human geography classes are particularly well-suited to the myriad political, social, and environmental landscapes of the region. This article summarizes a few key experiences that have emerged in forging study-abroad venues in the Dominican Republic and Cuba. In the latte...

The article discusses theoretical and practical approaches to creating a system of effective interaction between universities alumni, including the organization alumni associations. experience formation relations "university-graduate" foreign Ukrainian is described.
 work with graduates Kharkiv Humanitarian University "People's Academy" analyzed summarized, main directions forms cooperatio...

The economic reality of the 1990s in Europe forced the labour markets to become more flexible. Using a consistent comparative dataset for 14 European countries, the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), we explore the evolution and the cross-national differences in earnings mobility across Europe between 1994 and 2001 from three angles: first, the evolution of short-term inequality and its...