Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States, Volume 14 : Volume 14 : 2 Part-Set (Industrial Development and the Social Fabric, 14, Pt. a-B)

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Fascinating, timely and important.......1999-02-19

In this timely collection of essays, leading American and German scholars analyze immigrant incorporation into the welfare state from a comparative economic, social, and political viewpoint by applying data from the 1980s and 1990s. New insights are revealed into how ethnic stratification and socioeconomic integration is promoted by specific programs and other institutionalized policies in education, labor markets, and welfare. This volume will be an important resource not only to scholars and students in economics and the social and political sciences, but also for professionals in education, social work, journalism, politics, and community groups.

Part A, IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION CONTENTS: Acknowledgements. Introduction, Hermann Kurthen, Juergen Fijalkowski, and Gert G. Wagner. SECTION I: INCORPORATION INTO EDUCATION AND SCHOOL. Mass Migration, Dependency and Poverty in the United States, William A.V. Clark and Freya Schultz. Education as a Keystone of Integration of Immigrants: Determinants of School Attainment of Immigrant Children in West Germany, Gert G. Wagner, Felix Buechel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, and C. Katharina Spiess. School-to-Work Transitions in the United States: How Immigrants and Natives Differ, Denise D. Quigley. SECTION II. LABOR MARKET INTEGRATION AND ATTAINMENT. The Labor Market Status of U.S. Immigrants: A Synthesis, Barry R. Chiswick and Michael E. Hurst. Migrants in the German Labor Market: Nationality and Gender-Specific Labor Market Opportunities, Stefan Bender and Wolfgang Seifert. Vocational Training and the Quality of Immigrant and Minority Jobs in Germany and the United States, Marc Szydlik. SECTION III: ALLOCATION OF FISCAL BENEFITS AND CONTRIBUTIONS. Welfare Reform and Supplemental Security Income Receipt Among Immigrants in the United States, Jennifer V.W. Van Hook and Frank D. Bean. The Integration of Immigrants into West German Society: The Impact of Social Assistance, Wolfgang Voges, Joachim Frick, and Felix Buechel. Fiscal Impacts of Immigration on the American and German Welfare States, Hermann Kurthen. Concluding Remarks: The German and American Models of Immigrant Incorporation, Hermann Kurthen, Juergen Fijalkowski, and Gert G. Wagner. About the Contributors. Index.

Part B, WELFARE POLICIES AND IMMIGRANTS' CITIZENSHIP CONTENTS: Introduction, Hermann Kurthen, Juergen Fijalkowski, and Gert G. Wagner. SECTION I: IMMIGRATION POLICY AND WELFARE REFORM AT THE CROSSROADS. Power, Perceptions and the Politics of Immigration and Welfare, Nora V. Demleitner. Antecedents and Consequences of Tightening Welfare Eligibility for U.S. Immigrants, Thomas J. Espenshade and Gregory A. Huber. The Strangers Among Us: Societal Perceptions, Pressures, and Policy, Vincent N. Parrillo. Immigrants, Markets, and Rights, James F. Hollifield and Gary Zuk. SECTION II: CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION. Contexts of Immigrant Incorporation: Locating Dimensions of Opportunities and Constraints in the United States and Germany, Barbara Schmitter-Heisler. Volk-Nation or Nation of Immigrants? The Current Debate about Immigration in the United States and Germany in Comparative Perspective, Herbert Dittgen. Membership Without Politics? The Social and Political Rights of Foreigners in Germany, Gregg O. Kvistad. Incorporating Immigrants and Expanding Citizenship, Juergen Fijalkowski. Concluding Remarks: Challenges of Immigration Policy and Welfare Reform in Comparative Perspective, Hermann Kurthen, Juergen Fijalkowski, and Gert G. Wagner. About the Contributors. Index.

Diversity Breakthrough! Strategic Action Series: More Action: Keeping Momentum Alive! (Diversity Breakthrough!)
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The last of six short and snappy booklets in the easy-to-use and refreshingly straightforward Diversity Breakthrough! Strategic Action Series, More Action might well be the most important one, focusing on how to constantly reevaluate and renew commitment to an organization's diversity program. It also explains how to regularly start new phases of action in the ongoing process of making diversity not just part of an organization's philosophy but of its vision and practices.

Like all the booklets in Kennedy's goal-oriented series, this one comes with self-assessment tools, concrete action strategies to mobilize change, and fun, quick action-planning worksheets, all in a concise 64-page format that's as adaptable to an organization-wide initiative or a small group effort as it is to a single individual's nighttime reading and enrichment (where organizational change, after all, often begins). And as part of the real-life, first-person accounts that make all these booklets so immediate, this edition includes leaders from such diverse organizations as Hewlett-Packard, Leap Wireless, GTE, IBM, Lotus Printing, and the City and County of San Francisco talking about how their organizations have grappled with diversity issues in such areas as business practices, staffing, and overall culture.

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All students and researchers in environmental and biological sciences require statistical methods at some stage of their work. Many have a preconception that statistics are difficult and unpleasant and find that the textbooks available are difficult to understand.

Practical Statistics for Environmental and Biological Scientists provides a concise, user-friendly, non-technical introduction to statistics. The book covers planning and designing an experiment, how to analyse and present data, and the limitations and assumptions of each statistical method. The text does not refer to a specific computer package but descriptions of how to carry out the tests and interpret the results are based on the approaches used by most of the commonly used packages, e.g. Excel, MINITAB and SPSS. Formulae are kept to a minimum and relevant examples are included throughout the text.

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easy to read but..........2003-02-28

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One mistake that I found - Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is treated as an alternative to t-test, which is misleading. K-S test is for testing distributions not the means or medians. Though this is a common mistake, it should not come from a statistic book.

Not worth the money!

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