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Résumé. L'auteur examine une sélection de documents de la Commission européenne et du Conseil européen, pour identifier les constantes et les changements dans le discours de politique sociale de l'UE et rechercher leurs déterminants potentiels. Il distingue trois périodes: la Stratégie de Lisbonne, les réformes qui ont suivi (2005-2009) et l'«Europe 2020». La période la plus récente témoigne d'une marginalisation radicale et de la réduction à des mesures purement symboliques de la politique sociale par rapport aux considérations macroéconomiques et financières. Parallèlement, les institutions de l'UE ont pris le pas sur la compétence nationale en la matière. Une redistribution des rôles entre les acteurs principaux semble expliquer ces changements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé. Les auteurs examinent les accords collectifs conclus dans l'UE en 2008-2011 et leurs apports à la politique sociale: réduction du temps de travail, formation, modération salariale, flexibilisation de la fixation des salaires et de la durée du travail. A cet effet, ils distinguent secteur public et secteur privé: dans le premier, les déficits budgétaires et l'austérité limitent les possibilités de négociation à vocation sociale, tandis que dans le second les négociateurs ont recherché un équilibre entre compétitivité et maintien de l'emploi et des salaires, notamment dans les pays où les négociations sont coordonnées. Ailleurs, les auteurs avancent qu'une détérioration est à craindre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé. Dans l'introduction à ce numéro spécial de la Revue internationale du Travail, les auteurs retracent les grandes phases de la crise économique dans l'Union européenne depuis 2008 et soulignent le rôle crucial des politiques sociales pour en atténuer les effets sur la population. Toutefois, et les auteurs l'illustrent avec les inégalités entre hommes et femmes, la crise et les réactions des gouvernements ont aussi aggravé les inégalités sur le marché du travail, au sein des pays et entre eux. En outre, les variations d'un pays à l'autre, quant au contenu et à la structure des mesures de relance et d'austérité, ont aussi accentué les divergences entre les pays de l'Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the Dominican Republic’s economic and political institutional characteristics, we would expect social spending there to be at least average for Latin America. Yet in reality this country ranks at or near the bottom of the region in educational, health, pension and overall social spending, alongside significantly poorer, slower growing and less democratic countries. This article argues that the underdevelopment of Dominican social policies reflects the political impact of international migration flows, including both Dominican emigration to the United States and the immigration into the Dominican Republic from neighboring Haiti. These flows have inhibited the development of progressive political actors, including the partisan left and organized labor, and facilitated the adoption of an economic production model that erects additional obstacles to the expansion of the country’s social policies. Although the Dominican case is rather anomalous within Latin America, it holds important implications for countries outside the region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Connections between global governance and poverty are usually made in relation to what are loosely called ‘poor countries’ of the ‘global south’. However, global governance also significantly shapes dynamics of impoverishment in ‘rich countries’ of the ‘global north’. These impacts become all the more apparent when global governance is understood to involve not only well-known intergovernmental agencies such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation, but also additional institutional forms such as transgovernmental networks and private regulatory mechanisms. This broad complex of global governance has often exacerbated poverty in the global north, for example through neglect of the issue, through marginalisation of the people affected, and through the promotion of neoliberal policy frames. At the same time, global governance has in other ways also promoted poverty alleviation in ‘high-income countries’, for example with rules that work in their structural favour, with policy learning, with rights discourses, and with some promotion of global-scale social democracy. Thus, the challenge for efforts to reduce poverty in the global north is, on the one hand, to counter the negative implications of global governance and, on the other hand, to nurture the positive forces. Global coalitions of anti-poverty campaigners – in particular across north–south lines – could especially serve these politics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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This article explores the meanings of the trajectories of providing care for an older relative, as well as the dynamics and resources associated with these meanings. The qualitative research we undertook reveals a plurality of modes of being a family carer of an older person, which are distributed between two opposite poles, namely between "gratification" and "oppression". This plurality is the outcome of a combination of different dynamics and resources, in which the family resources, mainly the financial ones, end up having a determinant role. Consequently, the "plural caring" shows clear marks of social inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a consequence of a decision of the countries elites, which they have sustained for decades, the construction of an authentic Mexican regime of well-being, based on the collective effort of its people, has not been realized. Instead, this historical dynamic, which in its contemporary form continues to dominate the county's economic, political, social and environmental arenas, is being compounded by the compensatory and targeted social policies of the state. It is leading the country down a path of constructing a regime of ill-being for the majority of its population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Created in 2003 by the unification of four earlier initiatives, Bolsa Família currently provides cash transfers to 13 million people and supports more than one-third of the children that go to primary school in Brazil. This article extends and expands previous reviews on the origins, development and impact of the programme. The authors consider the political and economic dimensions in their evaluation of Bolsa Família’s contribution to the reduction of poverty and inequality. They argue that Bolsa Família’s ultimate impact will partly depend on a reduction of inequalities in public provision of health and education, which in turn may require a more active political role for the poor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Le présent article porte sur la crise démographique que traverse la Fédération de Russie et analyse ses conséquences sur la capacité des autorités russes (ou du peuple russe, à travers ses propres efforts) à créer suffisamment de ressources financières pour garantir une sécuritééconomique satisfaisante aux personnes âgées. Dans l'ensemble, la structure démographique de la Russie est similaire à celle d'autres sociétés de régions plus développées. Or, les obstacles auxquels le pays est et sera confronté dans les décennies à venir sont beaucoup plus difficiles à surmonter que ceux auxquels se heurtent la plupart des membres de l'OCDE pour pourvoir aux besoins d'une population qui vieillit. Le problème est notamment compliqué par le fait que les Russes en âge de travailler ont une santé beaucoup plus précaire et une mortalité nettement plus élevée que leurs homologues vivant dans des pays qui ont un niveau de revenu similaire - voire plus faible. Bien que l'analyse présentée ici porte sur les pensions, les raisons pour lesquelles il va être difficile de garantir des pensions adéquates vont entraîner des difficultés tout aussi importantes dans d'autres domaines de la protection sociale. Par conséquent, la réussite de la politique conduite par la Russie en matière de sécurité sociale ne dépend pas exclusivement de la mise en œuvre de programmes sociaux. Elle suppose aussi de réduire les taux de mortalité au sein de la population en âge de travailler, de redynamiser l'enseignement supérieur et de réformer en profondeur les institutions et les politiques économiques du pays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

De plus en plus de pays élaborent des politiques de pension et de santé ou réforment celles-ci pour répondre au vieillissement de la population et augmenter le bien-être de leurs citoyens. Il était normal que l'adoption de politiques différentes selon les pays débouchât sur diverses expériences. D'où une occasion inhabituelle d'examiner les effets de politiques variées sur la santé et la retraite, sur le comportement individuel et familial, et sur le bien-être. Saisir une telle occasion exige que des efforts concertés soient déployés dans la collecte des données. Un nombre croissant de pays ont accepté de fournir des données en harmonie avec l'étude sur la santé et la retraite aux Etats-Unis (Health and Retirement Study) (HRS). Le présent article engage une discussion sur ces séries de données, et notamment sur leurs paramètres clés concernant la situation de la pension et de la santé, les plans de recherches, les échantillons et les taux de réponse. Il traite aussi des possibilités que ces données offrent pour les études transnationales et de leur intérêt pour l'évaluation et l'élaboration des politiques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence and development of the Portuguese welfare state and the debate on poverty and social policies are marked in Portugal, as elsewhere, by a set of social and economic dimensions, but also a set of ideological and conceptual aspects. This paper discusses the emergence of the main concepts and authors on that debate. We also discuss the Portuguese case, in historical, legal and theoretical terms, regarding a social policy in particular, the Minimum Income, later called Social Insertion Income. Finally, we analyze the role of this politics in strengthening (or not) the (almost) Portuguese welfare state, as well as the prospective paths that can be drawn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to evaluate the public policies of the Venezuelan government from 1999. It intends to present some results of the study of social strategies undertaken by the government, through the modality of the Misiones Sociales, from a perspective that includes their overall performance in selected social indicators as well as citizen participation that should have to exist to go ahead with these actions. this will be done through the study of the 'misiones sociales' that address health and education issues and having more than five years of existence. these are the Misión Barrio Adentro and the educational missions (Robinson, Ribas, Sucre). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Raco M. Key worker housing, welfare reform and the new spatial policy in England, Regional Studies. Under the Labour government the character of spatial policy in England has been subject to significant change. The emphasis has increasingly been on spatial policy as an active social policy. This paper uses the example of public sector key worker housing programmes in England to exemplify and analyse the character of these changes. It argues that the new approach also contains an explicit recognition that social policies can and should be re-oriented towards the wider objectives of accumulation and competitiveness and this has broader implications for the organization and character of the welfare state. [image omitted] Raco M. Le logement des travailleurs essentiels, la reforme du syteme de protection sociale et la nouvelle politique regionale au R-U, Regional Studies. Sous le gouvernement travailliste, la politique regionale s'est sensiblement modifiee. De plus en plus on met l'accent sur la politique regionale comme politique sociale active. Cet article cherche a se servir de l'exemple de la construction de logements destines aux travailleurs essentiels du secteur public en Angleterre pour illustrer et analyser le caractere de ces modifications. On affirme que la nouvelle facon comprend aussi une reconnaissance que la politique sociale pourrait et devrait etre reorientee vers les objectifs plus larges d'accumulation et de competitivite. Il y a des lecons a en tirer pour ce qui est de l'organisation et du caractere du syteme de protection sociale. Politique regionale Politique sociale Logement Travailleurs essentiels Competitivite Raco M. Wohnungsprogramme fur offentliche Angestelle, Sozialreform und die neue Raumpolitik in England, Regional Studies. Unter der Labour-Regierung hat sich das Wesen der Raumpolitik in England grundlegend verandert. Die Betonung liegt zunehmend auf der Raumpolitik als aktiver Sozialpolitik. In diesem Beitrag wird anhand des Beispiels von Wohnungsprogrammen fur wichtige offentliche Angestellte in England das Wesen dieser Veranderungen beschrieben und analysiert. Nach meiner Argumentation wird durch den neuen Ansatz explizit anerkannt, dass sich Sozialpolitiken an den breiteren Zielen der Akkumulation und Wettbewerbsfahigkeit umorientieren konnen und sollten, was zu weitlaufigeren Folgen fur den Aufbau und das Wesen des Sozialstaates fuhrt. Raumpolitik Sozialpolitik Wohnungswesen Offentliche Angestellte Konkurrenzfahigkeit Raco M. Alojamiento para trabajadores clave, reforma del bienestar y la nueva politica espacial en Inglaterra, Regional Studies. Bajo el gobierno laborista el caracter de la politica espacial en Inglaterra ha experimentado importantes cambios. El enfasis ha recaido cada vez mas en la politica espacial como una politica social activa. En este articulo ilustro y analizo el caracter de estos cambios con el ejemplo de los programas de alojamiento para trabajadores clave en el sector publico en Inglaterra. Sostengo que el nuevo planteamiento tambien reconoce explicitamente que las politicas sociales pueden y deben ser reorientadas hacia objetivos mas amplios de acumulacion y competitividad y esto repercute en mayor medida en la organizacion y el caracter del estado del bienestar. Politica espacial Politica social Alojamiento Trabajadores clave Competitividad [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a new model for measuring local migration and population and report results of a promising pilot application to Massachusetts. This model operationalizes Ravenstein's classic "push-pull" paradigm, which posits that local migration is determined by the area's relative attractiveness or a compound function of distinct factors that push migrants out of the area or pull them in. The attraction factors and changes are measured using varied data sources, including decennial census migration flow data and data on group quarters and school enrollments. This model yields timely population estimates with accuracy superior to the corresponding estimates based on the Census Bureau's methodology. Such results warrant further applications to test and refine this promising approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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