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An Aging World
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Fatal Isolation
In a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of a hundred of what many have called the first casualties of global climate change. They are the so-called abandoned or forgotten victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck France in August 2003, leaving 15,000 people dead. They are those who died alone in Paris and its suburbs, buried at public expense when no family claimed their bodies. They died (and to a great extent lived) unnoticed by their neighbors, discovered in some cases only weeks after their deaths. And as with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, they rapidly became the symbols of the disaster for a nation wringing its hand...
Immigrants, Markets, and States
A study of migration tides which explores political and economic factors that have influenced immigration in post-war Europe and the USA. It seeks to explain immigration in terms of the globalization of labour markets and the expansion of civil rights for marginal groups in liberal democracies.
Morbidité, mortalité
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Demographic Dividends: Emerging Challenges and Policy Implications
This book examines potential economic opportunities that countries can experience when fertility rates fall and the average life expectancy of the working age population increases. It presents detailed demographic and economic analysis of middle-income countries throughout the world in order to show how these countries can take advantage of this demographic bonus. The book first traces the common link between policies that contribute to fertility transition as well as create the right kind of environment for reaping the benefit of demographic dividend. Next, it explores different countries and regions who are at different levels of development. It assesses the long term impact of gender equa...
Labour Market and Social Protection Reforms in International Perspective
Social protection systems and labour markets have undergone major changes in the past two decades. Welfare states are being reformed, scaled back and modernised; labour markets, at the same time, are more precarious, more feminised, more unequal, and throughout the OECD area, older. The interaction between labour markets and social protection has become increasingly crucial to the social and economic policy mix concerning unemployment, the transformation of work, the new poverty, and even demographics. Against this background, an interdisciplinary team of leading labour market and social protection experts from various OECD countries examine the multifaceted aspects of the changing relations...
Démographie, famille et société en France et en Union soviétique
Focuses on the period from 1970 to 1986.
Les migrations internationales
El número de personas inmigrantes en el mundo supera en la actualidad los 17 millones. La ONU estima que en los años 90 los países desarrollados han recibido alrededor de 2, 4 millones de personas anuales provenientes de países en desarrollo, ha habido transformaciones importantes que atañen también a la emigración entre países desarrollados, etc. La complejidad de todos estos temas se aborda en este coloquio internacional organizado por la Asociación Internacional de Demógrafos de Habla Francesa.
