CONTEXT Adolescent pregnancy, birth, abortion and sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates are much higher in the United States than in most other developed countries. METHODS Government statistics or nationally representative survey data were supplemented with data collected by private organizations or for regional or local populations to conduct studies of adolescent births, abortions, sexu...

Regarding changes in French and British labour market as in their educational system since the Eighties, one may address the evolution of their labour market segmentation. Is the predominance of Internal Labour Market in France and Occupational Labour Market in Great Britain (Eyraud, Marsden, Silvestre,1990) still relevant ? We propose a more complex segmentation of labour market with four segm...

Non-whites in West Europe face diverse economic outcomes that are insufficiently explained by current literature. The paradoxes of these economic outcomes are especially glaring when one considers change over time, and the downward mobility of Caribbeans in Britain and France. Common explanations of race and class do not work because in both countries non-Caribbean groups are the most discrimin...

in the study of the subjects of constitutional law, analysis of position of the public authorities in the light of their jurisdiction is the most important approach regarding the evaluation of their power within the arena of political society. when an authority is known as a powerful authority among his other counterparts, the significance for the study of the position of this authority becomes...