Costa Rica : A Pension Reform Strategy
ISBN: 9780821346549 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Early retirement and lax eligibility for disability are bad for the economy because they reduce labor productivity and the supply of experienced workers, and they are bad for the system because they impose a heavy financial burden that makes it nonsustainable.' Costa Rica is at a turning point with respect to its social security system. While half the work force is covered and beneficiaries have fared well in the past, the pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system is unsustainable for the future. This publication describes the present pension system, its shortcomings, and defends the need for...
'Early retirement and lax eligibility for disability are bad for the economy because they reduce labor productivity and the supply of experienced work...
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Welfare and the Labor Market in Poland: Social Policy During Economic Transition
ISBN: 9780821343180 / Angielski / Miękka / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report assesses the changes in social welfare and policy that have taken place in Poland during the economic transition. It tests the main hypotheses concerning changes in the role of the welfare state, workings of the labor market, the distributional consequences of transition, and more generally about the winners and losers in transition. Chapter one examines trends in social expenditure during economic transition. Chapter two focuses on changes in the labor market, including emerging risks and opportunities. Chapter three explores distributional consequences of transition.
This report assesses the changes in social welfare and policy that have taken place in Poland during the economic transition. It tests the main hypoth...
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Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780821342268 / Angielski / Miękka / 35 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. This paper offers a critical overview of alternative approaches to setting poverty lines. In reviewing the methods found in practice, the paper tries to throw light on, and go some way toward resolving, ongoing debates about poverty measurement, emphasizing those debates which would appear to have greatest bearing on policy discussions.
A poverty line helps focus the attention of governments and civil society on the living conditions of the poor. This paper offers a critical overview ...
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Ethnicity and Integration
ISBN: 9789048191024 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robustandforensicanalysisofrelevantdatasupportedbyscienti?cmethodologies is key to challenging contemporary debates around the use and abuse of race statistics.Controversiessurroundingthecollection, interpretationanduseofrace, ethnicityandethnicgroupdatahavealonghistory.BeingrootedinEugenics, this area of study has sparked intense reactions over the years. The abuse of race statisticsisnotonlyapparentduringtimesofuncertaintybuthasbeenentrenchedin social policies and political discourses in Britain since the 1950s. The collection of research studies in this book is therefore much needed and...
Robustandforensicanalysisofrelevantdatasupportedbyscienti?cmethodologies is key to challenging contemporary debates around the use and abuse of race s...
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African-American Political Psychology: Identity, Opinion, and Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era
ISBN: 9780230623552 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decades of research in both political science and psychology have demonstrated that external, environmental factors influence individuals' mental processes, especially as they relate to politics. Inasmuch as such factors vary systematically across racial and ethnic groups, the political psychology of these groups warrants study, hence, the objective of this volume. We have assembled a number of papers from both psychologists and political scientists in an effort to combine both disciplines' understanding of the psychological underpinnings of Blacks' orientation to the political world. Our...
Decades of research in both political science and psychology have demonstrated that external, environmental factors influence individuals' mental proc...
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Participatory Governance in Multi-Level Context: Concepts and Experience
ISBN: 9783810036148 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book addresses theoretically and empirically the question under what conditions innovative and sustainable policies can be achieved through participatory governance.
The book addresses theoretically and empirically the question under what conditions innovative and sustainable policies can be achieved through partic...
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Affirmative Action for the Future
ISBN: 9780801446078 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, Affirmative Action for the Future is a clarion call for the need to keep the door of opportunity open. In 2003, U.S. Supreme Court's Grutter and Gratz decisions vindicated the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action program while striking down the particular affirmative action program used for undergraduates at the university. In 2006 and 2008, state referendums banned affirmative action in some states while upholding it... At a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in light of new economic conditions, <... |
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Decentralizing Power: Paul Goodman's Social Criticism
ISBN: 9781551640082 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new collection of his most acute and durable political writing, readers will recognize the spirit of indignation and hope Goodman first roused in the 1960s with "Growing Up Absurd." "Stoehr tells his Goodman's] story well.This is the genuine kind of decentralism."--"The Nation"
In this new collection of his most acute and durable political writing, readers will recognize the spirit of indignation and hope Goodman first roused...
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China Engages Global Health Governance: Responsible Stakeholder or System-Transformer?
ISBN: 9780230104303 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime.
This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance wit...
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From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options
ISBN: 9780230283589 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex and multiple causes of the Great Recession, delineates the diversity in the macroeconomic and labour market consequences, and highlights the effectiveness of policy responses undertaken so far.
This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries. It traces the complex and ...
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Presidents and their Justices
ISBN: 9780761853732 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an innovative look at the relationship between a president and the Supreme Court justices they appoint. Based on a 2005 survey of historians, lawyers, and political scientists, the book delves into presidential Court appointments and how a justice's career affects a president's legacy.
This book offers an innovative look at the relationship between a president and the Supreme Court justices they appoint. Based on a 2005 survey of his...
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Social Freedom in a Multicultural State: Towards a Theory of Intercultural Justice
ISBN: 9780230278516 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separate and distinct, this book explores how to face current challenges to multiculturalism without reifying culture, group and identity.
The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as separat...
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Social Housing in Transition Countries
ISBN: 9780415890144 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the large-scale social housing programs begun in Eastern and Central Europe after 2000 as an attempt to mitigate the inequality and declining standards of living that took hold in the region after the wave of privatizations that accompanied the political turn of the 1990s.
This volume examines the large-scale social housing programs begun in Eastern and Central Europe after 2000 as an attempt to mitigate the inequality a...
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Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies
ISBN: 9789400700673 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies" presents innovative approaches to the diffusion of population and demographic behaviour. New data is paired with explicit analytical methods to evaluate core demographic theories, while posing new questions about a variety of other aspects involved.
"Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies" presents innovative approaches to the diffusion of population and demographic behaviour. New data is...
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Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy
ISBN: 9780230110250 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications. It posits social development theory and practice in a critically important context challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global impli...
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Ethnic, Racial and Religious Inequalities: The Perils of Subjectivity
ISBN: 9780230247635 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges some of the most basic assumptions underpinning the growing interest in religion, including: that religion is increasing and secularisation is decreasing and that religion is the main component of identity for all minority ethnic people.
This book challenges some of the most basic assumptions underpinning the growing interest in religion, including: that religion is increasing and secu...
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Surviving Globalization?: Perspectives for the German Economic Model
ISBN: 9781441952622 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. society, and state (Streeck, 1999; Simonis, 1998). Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high political integrating force of the German Model after WWII was based on the adoption and transformation of corporatist political structures from National Socialist Germany. Liberal capitalism was (re)introduced under political competition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who eventually found common ground in the politically mediated compromise between capital and labor: This compromise was negotiated and institutionalized at a time when...
society, and state (Streeck, 1999; Simonis, 1998). Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high politica...
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
ISBN: 9781608193417 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them-the rich and middle class as well as the poor. It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Le... |
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The Economic and Financial Market Consequences of Global Ageing
ISBN: 9783642073557 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many countries will be confronted with ageing populations in the coming decades. This will crucially affect the economic outlook for the economy. Population changes directly affect the size of the labour force and consequently potential employment and output growth. In addition, changes in demographic trends strongly influence savings and investment behaviour, the outlook for the public finances, a range of financial market variables and, more controversially, may impact on the pace of productivity growth in an economy. Because the timing and magnitude of demographic changes varies... Many countries will be confronted with ageing populations in the coming decades. This will crucially affect the economic outlook for the economy. ... |
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Reporting on Income Distribution and Poverty: Perspectives from a German and a European Point of View
ISBN: 9783642078941 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Hauser Irene Becker Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, FrankfurtlMain This volume marks the end of a research project of the editors titled "The Devel opment of the Personal Distribution of Income in Germany" that was financed by the Hans Bockler Foundation from 1994 to 2001. This research concentrated on a national perspective, studying many aspects of income inequality and poverty in West Germany between 1969 and 1998 and extending the analyses to inequality in East Germany after the German reunification. Now at the end point of our empiri cal analyses, we want to expand the...
Richard Hauser Irene Becker Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, FrankfurtlMain This volume marks the end of a research project of the editors titled "T...
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