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04 Feb 2012


Economist Daniel Sullivan shows that involuntarily job displacement doubled the short-term mortality rates of those displaced
[The Hamilton Project, April 2010]
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Life of families

The Festival of pregnancy

United Kingdom January 17, 2012

After the “baby shower”, the party in which guests bring presents for the new coming baby, there is a new vogue in UK: “foetus-party”. In this new fashion party relatives and friends meet up together to watch the ultrasound’s  3D or 4D images of the coming  baby. The phenomenon is [...]

Parma premia l’impresa sociale

October 05, 2011

È stato pubblicato in questi giorni dalla provincia di Parma il bando per il Premio qualità sociale d'impresa con scadenza il 15 novembre destinato alle aziende profit e no profit della zona. In applicazione della legge 68, l'iniziativa mira a promuovere e incentivare l'inserimento degli invalidi nel contesto lavorativo. Il [...]

Voglia di vivere

December 26, 2010

Over 50 per cent of this year’s graduates at Magdalen College, Oxford received a first.

November 19, 2010

6 September: women and ethnic minority groups

September 04, 2010

Short presentations of the following reports: - Social integration of women belonging to ethnic minority groups - Role of women in an ageing society
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A third of Europeans is smoke slave

E.U. August 13, 2010

With an average of 14.4 cigarettes a day, smokers in Europe are the 29% of the citizens. Ahead of the 2010 No Tobacco Day (Monday 31st May) the EU Commission published the results of a Eurobarometer survey and reaffirmed its efforts against tobacco, that causes illness for 14 million people [...]

[Special elections in Holland / 4] Is the immigration losing electoral appeal?

E.U. June 08, 2010 - by Francesco Molica

June 2009: in the Netherlands the European elections marked a political triumph for Geert Wilders. His Party for Freedom (PVV), founded just five years earlier on a fiercely anti-immigration platform, became the second party of the country, winning over a 17% of Dutch electorate. Over the following months, Mr. [...]

[Special elections in Holland / 3] Extremism does not always pay back

E.U. June 07, 2010 - by Francesco Molica

For Jean Tillie academic research and activism have long been inseparable activities. Deputy Director of Imes, the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies University of Amsterdam, he has acquired a reputation at home and abroad studying the political implications of multiculturalism in the Netherlands and, more generally, in Europe. Of [...]
Life of families

The Festival of pregnancy

United Kingdom January 17, 2012

After the “baby shower”, the party in which guests bring presents for the new coming baby, there is a new vogue in UK: “foetus-party”. In this new fashion party relatives and friends meet up together to watch the ultrasound’s  3D or 4D images of the coming  baby. The phenomenon is [...]