In 1996, four provinces of Iran experienced below replacement level fertility. Since the early 1980s, these provinces have recorded lower fertility than the national level. How and under what condition has fertility declined to such a low level in these provinces? It may be of considerable...

This research is supported by the Multicultural Affairs Queensland (MAQ) as part of the Queensland Government's Muslim Community Engagement Strategy to promote positive community relations with the Muslim Community. The present study investigates the employment status of Muslims in Queensland....

There is a considerable literature, albeit inconclusive, on whether workers in the nonprofit sector are paid less than their counterparts in the private and public sectors. For example, a large national study in the U.S. showed positive and negative differentials for some occupations and...

This article examines the interchangeability of paid and volunteer labor. It reports on estimates and prevalence of such interchangeability through a series of studies of Canadian nonprofits: two national surveys of nonprofit organizations and case studies of two hospitals. The first study found...

Because of the difficulty in securing traditional forms of credit, the poor are often driven into the fringe economy for check cashing, bill paying and short-term loans. These services involve high user fees and exorbitant interest rates that rival or even exceed those for illegal loan sharking....

Webcast of "Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work," a briefing held on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, and presented by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.Panelists presented "the latest research on scheduling challenges faced by low-wage workers, [. . .] common sense...

Sozialpartnerschaft nimmt in der EU-Sozialpolitik eine Sonderstellung ein. Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre gibt es die Möglichkeit, EU-Richtlinien durch Sozialpartnerabkommen auszuhandeln. Die EU-Kommission sieht in der Beteiligung der Sozialpartner einen Weg zu wirkungsvollerem Regieren....

Gegeben die individuell erfahrbaren Kosten der die Gesellschaft als Ganzes erfassenden Transformationsprozesse in Polen, und gegeben die Defizite bürokratischer Sozialpolitik, werden die theoretischen wie praktischen Möglichkeiten der römisch-katholischen Kirche Polens bei der Förderung von...

This metadata relates to an electronic version of an article published in Policy Studies, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2003 , pages 33-50. Policy Studies is available online at informaworldTM at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713691459

This paper started by briefly pointing to the economic dilemma which gave rise to the Black Economic Empowerment Commission (BEECom). The country has experienced low growth coupled with high and growing levels of unemployment, which have led to widespread poverty and a highly unequal...