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The question of how sustainable innovations and how niche experimentation lead to systemic changes are a core motivation of sustainability transitions research. As an inherently interdisciplinary field, although this question is addressed from different academic perspectives, the dominant understanding of relevant scaling processes is grounded in concepts of growth, diffusion and expansion. This article contributes to the discussion of more nuanced understandings of scaling, acknowledging the value of ontological levels for analytic purposes, but also drawing on knowledge from socio-psychological and spatial perspectives. Alternative understandings of spatial and agency-related scaling approaches are discussed and compared. An integrative socio-spatial framework is developed, providing a mid-range framework capable of supporting analysis of transitions that connects different disciplinary perspectives within a level-based ontology. We use an illustrative case study and derive implications for how this can inform questions of scaling and particularly spatial upscaling of new ways of doing, thinking and organizing.

Laut dem jüngsten Stimmungsbarometer des Gallup-Institutes meinen 64% der Österreicherinnen und Österreicher, dass sich die Politik dringend prioritär mit Pflege und Gesundheit beschäftigen müsse. Aber entsprechen die Einschätzungen der Bevölkerung zur Pflegevorsorge in Österreich der Faktenlage? Die stellvertretende WIFO-Direktorin Ulrike Famira-Mühlberger und Gallup-COO Andrea Fronaschütz stellen im Rahmen eines digitalen Medienchats am 21. Juni 2022 um 10:00 Uhr die Ergebnisse des aktuellen Gallup-WIFO-Meinungschecks vor.

Die Grundsicherung in Deutschland ist in die Jahre gekommen. Auch wenn sie sich in den letzten Jahren und zuletzt auch in der COVID-19-Krise bewährte: Für größere Haushalte wird es zunehmend schwerer, mit dem eigenen Einkommen unabhängig von staatlichen Grundsicherungsleistungen zu leben. Und die rasch steigenden Mieten führen dazu, dass immer mehr Haushalte Gefahr laufen, in die Grundsicherung abzurutschen. Für sie bietet die gegenwärtige Grundsicherung kein stabiles Auffangnetz mehr. Der Vorschlag einer solidarischen Grundsicherung will diese Mängel beheben. Er baut auf einer auf nur drei Säulen beruhenden Grundsicherungsarchitektur auf, die auf Bestehendes zurückgreift: (1) Eine zu versteuernde Kindergrundsicherung und (2) ein Bürgergeld decken den alltäglichen Bedarf der einzelnen Haushaltsmitglieder ab. (3) Ein neues einheitliches Wohngeld sichert darüber hinaus den Wohnbedarf der Haushalte. Diese drei Säulen garantieren in jedem Fall das soziokulturelle Existenzminimum und sind zudem so aufeinander abgestimmt, dass sie deutlich größere Anreize zur Selbsthilfe gegenüber dem jetzigen System schaffen.

European construction faces various crises and several new challenges. The economies throughout Europe are already experiencing the influence of the war in Ukraine. The upcoming construction market forecast event will deal with the resulting economic impact on the construction industry. Our Euroconstruct experts – Antonella Stemperini (CRESME RICERCHE, Italy), Josep Ramon Fontana (ITEC – The Catalonia Institute of Construction Technology, Spain), Mohammed Chaudhri (Construction Futures, Economics – Decision Analytics Experian, UK) and Adam Sochacki (PAB – Polish Construction Research & Forecasting Institute, Poland) – will put a spotlight on sectoral construction trends. This hybrid conference will be broadcasted from the Varso Place in Warsaw on 10 June 2022. All participants receive a link to an online stream and comprehensive information like the Euroconstruct Summary and Conference Report. The premium package includes also the highly requested Euroconstruct Country Report.

Constitutional loyalty, the importance ascribed to complying with constitutional rules, is difficult to measure across countries due to differences in context, history, and culture. We overcome this challenge by exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic as an ideal setting in which societies around the world face a novel and similar public health crisis, inducing governments to adopt comparable policies. Based on a survey carried out in 53 countries around the world in 2021, we show that citizens' support for COVID-19 mitigation policies declines if courts signal doubts about their constitutionality. We further demonstrate that this effect of constitutional loyalty depends on citizens' characteristics, such as their confidence in the courts and their moral convictions.

Existing research shows that unemployment insurance (UI) subsidizes job search. In this paper, we provide new evidence that extending UI duration creates labor market responses that vary by gender, with female workers driving previously observed wage gains. Using linked administrative labor and health data for Austrian workers, we show that female workers eligible for 9 additional weeks of UI benefits are more likely to change occupations and pivot away from physically demanding jobs. Outside of the labor market, these workers fill fewer opioid and antidepressant prescriptions and are less likely to claim disability, as compared to ineligible unemployed female workers.

This study examines the nature of financial distress within business groups across 25 European countries during 2000-2018. We discover that business group membership is positively associated with a greater likelihood of default. Group membership reduces the likelihood of reorganization, with liquidation or acquisition more common. Deeper business groups are less likely to have distressed members, but such firms are most often liquidated or acquired. Lower-level firms within a business group are more likely to be liquidated. Our findings are consistent with agency theory, asset tunneling, and a cash flow-voting rights imbalance.