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Whatever the approach to the pension debate, the fundamental issue is to find a balance between contribution rates on the one hand, and length of the retirement period and pension levels on the other. Didier Blanchet places this question in historical perspective. ...

This article examines the role of assisted loans in accessing homeownership and in the residential segregation of low-income households in France. During the 1996-2006 period, no-interest loans (NILs) affected 1.4 million households and were the main policy tool that favored  homeownership. ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the patterns of poverty and housing overcrowding among immigrant children in Finland, with a particular focus on the standard of living in the first years of settlement. We also seek to explore ...

The European Union includes 11 post-communist countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia). The population of this group of countries has fallen by 7% since 1989, whereas that of the rest of the EU has risen by ...

Sixteen municipal Bathhouses currently open in Paris provide for free good quality service to people deprived of the opportunity to wash themselves in good conditions. Because the precise characteristics of the population and the way in which solidarity is present ...