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Report on the employment of disabled people in European countries: France
- Authors:
- VELCHE Dominique, VILLE Isabelle, RAVAUD Jean-Francois
- Publisher:
- Academic Network of European Disability Experts
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Utrecht
The purpose of the report (Terms of Reference) is to review national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective, and to provide the Commission with useful evidence in support of disability policy mainstreaming. More specifically, the report will review implementation of EU Employment Strategy and the PROGRESS initiative with reference to policy implementation evidence from European countries, including the strategies addressed in the EU Disability Action Plan (such as flexicurity and supported employment).
Immigrant women and integration
- Author:
- COUNCIL OF EUROPE. Directorate of Social and Economic Affairs
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 115p.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Papers from a meeting to pool experience with and ideas about projects to aid integration and equal opportunities for women immigrating to European Community countries.
Report on the employment of disabled people in European countries: France
- Authors:
- VELCHE Dominique, VILLE Isabelle, RAVAUD Jean-Francois
- Publisher:
- Academic Network of European Disability Experts
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 48p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Utrecht
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Focusing on France, this is one of a series of reports reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations. The national disability rate for people aged 15-64 living at home is 4.60% by the strict administrative definition of those entitled to benefit from legal disability provisions. By an extended definition of long term illness limiting daily activity this figure is 24.36%. Employment for the first group is 35% and 65% for the latter. The implementation of the 2005 law remains the main objective of the government. As a result there have been no major policies since 2008 but further recommendations and regulations have been introduced. Recent evidence suggests a fairly balanced interpretation of the impact of the economic crisis. The quota scheme appears to have protected those in the administrative disability category; possible explanations are discussed.
The institutional framework of ethnic employment disadvantage: a comparison of Germany and Canada
- Authors:
- REITZ Jeffrey G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 25(3), July 1999, pp.397-443.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article presents the results of a cross national conventional earnings analysis, highlighting differences in ethnic disadvantages within labour markets and the effects of educational and labour market institutional structures. Foreigners in Germany differ from immigrants in Canada in the patterns, more than the overall extent, of employment disadvantage.
The employment of people with disabilities in small and medium-sized enterprises
- Author:
- CARPENTER Morgan
- Publisher:
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 149p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Comparative study, based on company case studies from six EU member states, of people with disabilities working in small and medium sized companies. Looks at: the legislative framework; employee characteristics; employer and workplace related characteristics; and mediating organisations. Concludes with sections on policy implications and recommendations.
Comparing families and family policies in Europe
- Editors:
- HANTRAIS Linda, LETABLIER Marie-Therese
- Publisher:
- Loughborough University. European Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 111p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Loughborough
Comparative study. Includes papers on: comparing families and family policies in Europe; statistics for comparing new family forms; lesbian families in the UK and France; researching family obligations; non-take-up of benefits in France; family sociology and ideology in Spain; sociological perspectives on the family-employment relationship in France; women's employment and equal opportunities; the relationship between women's paid and unpaid work; combining care and paid employment; changing gender roles and family-employment strategies in Spain; policies for employed mothers in France and Italy; and constructing categories for comparing family policy making.
The children left behind: a league table of inequality in child well-being in the world's rich countries
- Author:
- UNICEF. Innocenti Research Centre
- Publisher:
- UNICEF. Innocenti Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Florence
This report questions how far children in the 24 richest countries in the world are being allowed to fall with regard to material well-being, education and health. Three (pre-2008 recession) surveys: OECD Programme for International Student Assessment; Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children; and European Union – Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are used to assess inequality at the bottom end of the distribution, rather than overall inequality between top and bottom. The well-being of children on the 10th percentile (lower than 90% of children in society) is compared with those at the 50th percentile, or the median is compared with an average of all who fall below it. This report opens with 3 summary league tables and a ranking of the overall record of each country, followed by detailed analyses presented in 2 parts. Part 1 describes material, educational and health inequalities by focusing on the following: household income, basic educational resources, and living space; reading, maths and science literacy; self-reported health, healthy eating and physical activity, respectively. Part 2 includes the following discussions: child poverty – a relative measure; first call – children and recession; the just society – a measure; monitoring – a need to know; and poor - in parental time.
Class and gender inequalities in different types of welfare states: the Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP)
- Author:
- KORPI Walter
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(Supplement 1), July 2010, pp.s14-s24.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In this article the author considers the role of legislated welfare state institutions as mediators of the effects of political and structural forces on a citizen’s standard of living, as related to inequalities in health and mortality. The article focuses on institutional structures of welfare state programmes relevant to: class inequality, as indicated by income inequalities; and to gender inequality, regarded as differences in agency. The article introduces the Social Citizenship Indicator Program, an international database providing quantitative and qualitative information on structures of main social insurance programmes in 18 countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States) from 1930 to 2000, containing 300,000 data points. The database is used to delineate types of distributive institutions of relevance for income inequality. Institutions relevant for gendered agency inequality affect choices by women, especially mothers, between unpaid and paid work. Driving forces behind the emergence of differences in distributive institutions are discussed, as are the patterns of class and gender inequalities.
The equal opportunities handbook: a guide to law and best practice in Europe
- Author:
- COLLINS Helen
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 302p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Part 1 provides a background to equal opportunities issues, including sex discrimination, racial discrimination and race relations, age discrimination, sexuality, and discrimination against offenders and ex-offenders. Part 2 looks at law and practice in the UK, and at policy issues. It also includes a section on HIV and AIDS. Part 3 details equal opportunities in the EC, looking at, country by country: the position of women, parental rights and childcare, race relations, disability, age issues, and sexuality.