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Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic sparked unprecedented experimentation in the German social assistance system, leading to changes previously considered impracticable by policymakers. This included a sanctions moratorium, easier access to benefits, and temporary cash transfers, all of which were advocated by welfare associations—key organized interests ...
Christopher Smith Ochoa
wiley   +1 more source

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1999, Volume 14 [PDF]

Anil Kashyap, Takeo Hoshi
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Digital Technologies Enabling Component Reuse in Circular Value Chains: Using Digital Twin, Internet of Things and Robots in Construction and Manufacturing Sectors

R&D Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The reuse of components is a highly impactful way to implement the circular economy (CE) and limit negative environmental externalities in material‐intensive industries, such as construction and manufacturing. Although research integrating digitalisation and the CE has proposed a wide range of digital technologies to facilitate component reuse,
Prabhat Kiran Thakuri, Lauri Alkki, Leena Aarikka‐Stenroos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
wiley   +1 more source

From Multicultural Experiment to Performing “China's Story”: Complying With Shifting Norms at a Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adopting a broad understanding of compliance as adherence to norms, this study examines the role of the Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School in Budapest in the propagation of institutional, educational, and civic norms, through an anthropological inquiry into the discourses and practices embraced and enacted by teachers, parents, and students ...
Fanni Beck, Pál Nyíri
wiley   +1 more source

Colonizing Canis lupus: Wolf Management as a Settler Colonial Project

Rural Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hostility to wolves by segments of agribusiness and the general public in the United States is a puzzle, given that wolf predation is not responsible for a large number of cattle and sheep losses and has only a very modest economic effect on the livestock industry.
Kristina Beggen, Richard York
wiley   +1 more source

Momentum Profits in Alternative Stock Market Structures [PDF]

Antonios Siganos, Patricia Chelley-Steeley   +1 more
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Measuring and Harmonising Coverage, Generosity and History of Work‐Injury Policies Globally

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I present new measures of generosity, coverage and institutional characteristics of work‐injury policy across 189 countries in the Global Work‐Injury Policy Dataset (GWIP) version 2.0. To date, major research efforts produced detailed social policy data for the rich Western countries, and more recently countries of Eastern, Central and Central‐
Nate Breznau
wiley   +1 more source

Disarticulations in Naples: Cultural political ecology, the green transition, and labour unrest at a Whirlpool factory

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops a cultural political ecology approach to disarticulations and labour unrest. The reference point for analysis is a struggle at a Whirlpool factory in Naples that the company announced would close in 2019, six months after signing an agreement with the Italian government, including a multi‐million investment plan.
Carlo Inverardi‐Ferri
wiley   +1 more source