| Description |
xii, 756 p. : tables ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Katherine McFate -- Markets and states / Katherine McFate, Timothy Smeeding, and Lee Rainwater -- Poverty and social-assistance dynamics in the United States, Canada, and Europe / Greg J. Duncan, Bjorn Gustafsson, Richard Hauser, Gunther Schmaus, Stephen Jenkins, Hans Messinger, Ruud Muffels, Brian Nolan, Jean-Claude Ray, and Wolfgang Voges -- Comparison of poverty and living conditions in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Germany / Susan Mayer -- Labor insecurity through market regulation / Guy Standing -- Impact of technological change, deindustrialization, and internationalization of trade on earnings inequality / Petter Gottschalk and Mary Joyce. |
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Gender role and family structure changes in the advanced industrialized west / Sheila B. Kamerman -- French policies towards lone parents / Nadine Lefaucheur -- Single mothers in Sweden / Siv Gustafsson -- Lone parents / Ruth Rose -- Single mother families and social policy / Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel -- Is there a problem with the youth labor market, and if so, how should we fix it? / Paul Osterman -- Apprentice training in Germany / Bernard Casey -- Special measures to improve youth employment in Italy / Enrico Pugliese -- Postindustrializaton and youth unemployment / Troy Duster -- Divergent destinies / Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou. |
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Impact of economic change on minorities and migrants in western Europe / Ian Gordon -- Comparative structure and experience of urban exclusion / Loic Wacquant -- Immigration, marginality, and French social policy / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- Poverty, immigration, and minority groups / Colin Brown -- Ethnic minorities in the Netherlands / Justus Veenman -- Trampolines, safety nets, or free fall? / Katherine McFate -- Social Question / Hugh Heclo -- Poverty, social rights, and the quality of citizenship / Roger Lawson and William Julius Wilson. |
| Subject |
Income distribution -- Europe.
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Income distribution.
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Poor -- Europe.
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Poor.
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Europe -- Social policy.
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United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
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| Added Author |
McFate, Katherine.
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Lawson, Roger.
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Wilson, William J., 1935-
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| ISBN |
0871545101 (hard : alk. paper) |
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