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Read abstract Child poverty and the well-being of children is an important policy issue throughout the industrialised world. Some 47 million children in ‘rich’ countries live in families so poor that their health and well-being are at risk. The main themes addressed are: the extent and trend of child poverty in industrialised nations; outcomes for […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/child-well-being-child-poverty-and-child-policy-in-modern-nations/
Read abstract In Poor Kids in a Rich Country, Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding ask what it means to be poor in a prosperous nation – especially for any country’s most vulnerable citizens, its children. In comparing the situation of American children in low-income families with their counterparts in 14 other countries—including Western Europe, Australia, […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/poor-kids-in-a-rich-country-americas-children-in-comparative-perspective/
Read abstract Parents around the world grapple with the common challenge of balancing work and child care. Despite common problems, the industrialized nations have developed dramatically different social and labor market policies—policies that vary widely in the level of support they provide for parents and the extent to which they encourage an equal division of […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/families-that-work-policies-for-reconciling-parenthood-and-employment/
Read abstract High rates of divorce, single-parenthood, and nonmarital cohabitation are forcing Americans to reexamine their definition of family. This evolving social reality requires public policy to evolve as well. The Future of the Family brings together the top scholars of family policy—headlined by editors Lee Rainwater, Tim Smeeding, and, in his last published work, […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/the-future-of-the-family/
Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review (Volume 2, Number 2, 2004)
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/socio-economic-review/
Read abstract A new kind of historic transformation is underway in twenty-first-century Europe. Twentieth-century Europeans were no strangers to social, economic and political change, but their major challenges focused mainly on the intra-European construction of stable, prosperous, capitalist democracies. Today, by contrast, one of the major challenges is flows across borders – and particularly in-flows […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/immigration-and-the-transformation-of-europe/
Read abstract Economic and social shifts have led to rising income inequality in the world’s affluent countries. This is worrisome for reasons of fairness and because inequality has adverse effects on other socioeconomic goods. Redistribution can help, but government revenues are threatened by globalization and population aging. A way out of this impasse is for […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/jobs-with-equality/
Read abstract A healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well-being in terms of finance alone; how much time we have matters just as much as how much money. The authors of this book have developed a […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/discretionary-time-a-new-measure-of-freedom/