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Aspects of the informal economy in a transforming country: the case of Romania
No full textThe informal economy has played a large part in state socialist countries and has been growing since 1989 in eastern European countries. Based on qualitative interviews and a large-scale survey carried out in Romania in 1996 and 1998, this article identifies four forms of informal household economies. In the context of a long drawn-out transformational recession in Romania, market conditions are rather unfavourable for most branches of the informal economy, which two-thirds of all Romanian households participate in. Success or failure depend largely on household potential and personal skills. A large group of households, which depend primarily on subsistence farming or on occasional manual labour, is trapped in a survival economy. Households that combine formal and informal jobs mostly manage to escape poverty, and the better off can raise their standards of living through informal activities, especially those who are independent and provide qualified services or those who carry out informal activities related to their formal employment in firms. A small group of informal entrepreneurs struggles between the two extremes of successful accumulation and a situation of dependency. Economically, subsistence farming exacerbates the crisis in agriculture, whereas in other branches of the informal economy there are more positive than negative impacts on overall economic development
Prozesse der Integration und Ausgrenzung. Turkische Migranten der zweiten Generation - By Norbert Gestring, Andrea Janssen and Ayca Polat Ethnische Kolonien. Entstehung, Funktion und Wandel am Beispiel turkischer Moscheen und CafEs - By Rauf Ceylan
No full textKeim, Rolf, Wohnungsmarkt und soziale Ungleichheit : über die Entwicklung städtischer Polarisierungsprozesse. / [rezensiert von] Rainer Neef
No full textRezensiertes Werk: Keim, Rolf: Wohnungsmarkt und soziale Ungleichheit : über die Entwicklung städtischer Polarisierungsprozesse / Rolf Keim. - Basel [u.a.] : Birkhäuser, 1999. - 339 S. : graph. Darst., Kt. - (Stadtforschung aktuell ; 72) Zugl.: Kassel, Univ., Diss. 1998 ISBN 3-7643-6042-9 (brosch.
Rudolph, Robert, Stadtzentren russischer Großstädte in der Transformation : St. Petersburg und Jekaterinburg / [rezensiert von] Rainer Neef
No full textRezensiertes Werk: Rudolph, Robert: Stadtzentren russischer Großstädte in der Transformation - St. Petersburg und Jekaterinburg / Robert Rudolph. - Leipzig : Inst. für Länderkunde, 2001. - 186 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. - ( Beiträge zur regionalen Geographie ; 54) Zugl.: Leipzig, Inst. für Länderkunde, Diss., 2001 ISBN 3-86082-042-
Berger, Christa; Hildenbrand, Bruno; Somm, Irene, Die Stadt der Zukunft : Leben im prekären Wohnquartier / [rezensiert von] Rainer Neef
No full textRezensiertes Werk: Berger, Christa ; Hildenbrand, Bruno ; Somm, Irene: Die Stadt der Zukunft : Leben im prekären Wohnquartier / Christa Berger; Bruno Hildenbrand; Irene Somm. - Opladen : Leske + Budrich, 2002. - 219 S. : graph. Darst., Kt ISBN 3-8100-3490-
L’avenir des villes des Alpes en Europe = Die Zukunft der Alpenstädte in Europa / [rezensiert von] Rainer Neef
No full textRezensiertes Werk: L' avenir des villes des Alpes en Europe : conférence de Villach, 19. - 20.6. 1998 = Die Zukunft der Alpenstädte in Europa = L'avvenire delle città alpine in Europa = Prihodnost alpskih mest v Evrope / conseil scientifique de la conf. de Villach: Manfred Perlik. Geograph. Inst. d. Univ. Bern ... - Kongress: Conférence "L'avenir des villes des Alpes en Europe" ; (Villach) : 1998.06.19.-20. - Bern : Geographisches Inst. der Univ, 1999. - 231 S. : Ill., Kt., Tab., Diagr. - (Revue de géographie alpine ; 87,2 ; Geographica Bernensia : Reihe P, Geographie für die Praxis ; 36) ISBN 3-906151-35-
Matthiesen, Ulf (Hg.), Die Räume der Milieus : neue Tendenzen in der sozial- und raumwissenschaftlichen Milieuforschung, in der Stadt- und Raumplanung / [rezensiert von] Rainer Neef
No full textRezensiertes Werk: Die Räume der Milieus : neue Tendenzen in der sozial- und raumwissenschaftlichen Milieuforschung, in der Stadt- und Raumplanung / [hrsg. vom Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung]. Ulf Matthiesen (Hg.). - Berlin : Ed. Sigma, c 1998. - 371 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. ISBN 3-89404-452-
Dynamical models of cortical circuits
No full textCortical neurons operate within recurrent neuronal circuits. Dissecting their operation is key to understanding information processing in the cortex and requires transparent and adequate dynamical models of circuit function. Convergent evidence from experimental and theoretical studies indicates that strong feedback inhibition shapes the operating regime of cortical circuits. For circuits operating in inhibition-dominated regimes, mathematical and computational studies over the past several years achieved substantial advances in understanding response modulation and heterogeneity, emergent stimulus selectivity, inter-neuron correlations, and microstate dynamics. The latter indicate a surprisingly strong dependence of the collective circuit dynamics on the features of single neuron action potential generation. New approaches are needed to definitely characterize the cortical operating regime
Coat Cooke & Joe Poole | Coat Cooke & Rainer Wiens: Reviews
No full textCoat Cooke album reviews by Randy Raine-Reusch. Coat Cooke (sax); Joe Poole (drums); Rainer Wiens (guitar)
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