Be not afraid

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Tom Streissguth

"Examines immigration in the United States, including the history of U.S. immigration and the debate over immigration reforms, laws, and policies"--Provided by publisher.

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Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Daniel Villeneuve

L'aménagement et la réduction du temps de travail considérés sous deux points de vue : comme une solution partielle au problème du sous-emploi, comme moyen d'améliorer les conditions de vie, notamment en conciliant emploi-famille.

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Alberto Alesina and Edward L. Glaeser

As events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty. Based on careful and systematic analysis of national data, the authors describe just how different the two continents are in the level of their State engagement in the redistribution of income. They go through various possible economic explanations for the difference, including different levels of pre-tax income, openness, and social mobility; they survey politico-historical differences such as the varying physical size of nations, their electoral and legal systems, and the character of their political parties, as well as their experiences of war; and they examine sociological explanations which include different attitudes to the poor and notions of social responsibility, as well as, most importantly, attitudes to race. They calculate that attitudes to race explain half the observed difference in levels of public redistribution of income.

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Fen-ling Chen

"This book analyses how women's employment has been treated by the state of Taiwan. The relationship between patriarchy, capitalism, state and women's power is discussed to highlight the extent to which the development of capitalism has changed women's status in Taiwan, and how far the state has used employment policies and other related policies to intervene in the utilization of the female labour force."--BOOK JACKET.