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La résistance non violente : une nouvelle approche des enfants violents et autodestructeurs
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ISBN: 9782804158965 2804158969 Year: 2008 Volume: *17 Publisher: Bruxelles De Boeck

Valuing children
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ISBN: 0674033647 0674037022 9780674037021 9780674026322 0674026322 9780674033641 9780674047273 0674047273 0674263510 9780674263512 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.


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The gender impact of social security reform
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ISBN: 0226392007 9786611957216 1281957216 0226392023 9780226392028 9780226392004 9781281957214 6611957219 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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As populations age and revenues diminish, government and private pension funds around the world are facing insolvency. The looming social security crisis is especially dire for women, who live longer than men but have worked less in the formal labor force. This groundbreaking study examines alternative social security systems and their disparate impacts on men and women. Emphasis is placed on the new multi-pillar systems that combine a publicly managed benefit and a mandatory private retirement saving plan. The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform compares the gendered outcomes of social security systems in Chile, Argentina, and Mexico, and presents empirical findings from Eastern and Central European transition economies as well as several OECD countries. Women's positions have improved relative to men in countries where joint pensions have been required, widows who have worked can keep the joint pension in addition to their own benefit, the public benefit has been targeted toward low earners, and women's retirement age has been raised to equality with that of men. The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform will force economists and policy makers to reexamine the design features that enable social security systems to achieve desirable gender outcomes.

Primary school in Japan : self, individuality and learning in elementary education.
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ISBN: 9780415446792 0415446791 9780415545365 0415545366 9780203935811 0203935810 9781134064045 9781134064083 9781134064090 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Routledge

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The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. This book, based on an extended, detailed study of two primary schools in the Kinki district of Japan, discusses these debates.

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