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This paper is based on current studies within the O.E.C.D. Directorate for Scientific Affairs on problems of educational development. More particularly, the data used in this paper derive from a more general study of problems posed by the expansion of secondary education in O.E.C.D. countries, which will be completed by the Organisation in the near future. The views expressed in the paper are those of the authors. The paper was originally presented at the Ghent Meeting of the Comparative Education Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using an ecological perspective, one aspect of the relationship of social distance and physical distance is analyzed in the three largest cities in Israel. The principal aim of the paper is to examine ethnic (country of origin) residential segregation as an indicator of social patterning within the society. Despite the different demographic, topographical and functional characteristics of the three cities, fairly similar patterns of ethnic segregation are found using the technique of Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-I) to analyze index of dissimilarity matrices. Patterns of ethnic segregation are then related to the SES of sub-quarters to determine the nature of the internal structure of the cities. It is suggested that ethnicity is an important variable in the process of social stratification in urban Israel, at least insofar as ecological relationships are concerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports some of the findings of a survey study of recent changes in the structure of large European manufacturing organizations. The structural history of these companies in their headquarters' countries is examined and contrasted with that of large United States organizations. Although divisionalization has occurred, there are differences between the United States multidivisional model and the structures adopted in recent European reorganizations. Organizational change in European companies has typically occurred as a result of specific changes in the competitive environment rather than as result of changes in product diversification strategies. Structural change has been concentrated in particular industrial sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a comparative study of insurance integration in the United States and in Europe. The objectives of insurance regulation are described. Preconditions of effective regulation are examined, particularly resources of the regulator, nature of the insurance market, controlling access to the European market, and making the American market controllable. Scaled capital and surplus requirements are likewise investigated. Regulation of marketing and control of policy terms are discussed.

The European who comes to the United States is surprised to find a more rapid social development in American children than he has been used to seeing in European children. In thought and action American children become independent of their elders at an earlier age than do European children. Not only do they depend less on adult guidance and judgment, but their consciences seem to mature earlier also. the American mother unwittingly transfers some of the child's dependency from herself to his peer group at the preschool age, while the Parisian mother still thinks of him as "baby" constantly needing her to teach him which kind of behavior she approves and which she disapproves. The American child learns to find satisfaction in the approval of his young playmates and strives to avoid their disapproval.