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, 2013 [Excerpt] Much public attention has focused on higher education for the growing debt burdens that students are amassing, the steadily increasing tuition levels, and their impact that these debt burdens, on students’ access to higher education and ...
Ehrenberg, Ronald G, Milton, Ross T
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Stress, Health, and Injury Among Illinois Farmers
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives The goal of this cross‐sectional study was to characterize stress, injury, and chronic health conditions among agricultural producers in Illinois. The objectives were to: (1) describe the prevalence and nature of work‐related injuries; (2) describe chronic health conditions, stress, and symptoms of mental health conditions; and (3 ...
Josie M. Rudolphi +3 more
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Debt dilution and debt overhang
, 2018 We introduce long-term debt (and a maturity choice) into a standard model of firm financing and investment. This allows us to study two distortions of investment: (1.) Debt dilution distorts firms’ choice of debt which has an indirect effect on investment; (2.) Debt overhang directly distorts investment.
Jungherr, Joachim, Schott, Immo
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Beyond administrative burden: Activation and administrative harm
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐
Michael McGann, Sarah Ball
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Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide
, 2015 An increase in the household debt to GDP ratio predicts lower GDP growth and higher unemployment in the medium run for an unbalanced panel of 30 countries from 1960 to 2012.
Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, Emil Verner
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, 2017 A striking aspect of current debt is that it seems characterized by limitlessness in space and time. Benjamin’s account of capitalism as a permanent cult gives a clue to its peculiar infinity. Debt shows the traits of a messianic time. More precisely, it partakes in the increasingly dominative temporality of preemption, where a catastrophic future is ...
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The Effect of Taxes on Multinational Debt Location [PDF]
, 2010 We provide new evidence that differences in international tax rates and tax regimes affect multinational firms\u27 debt location decisions. Our sample contains 8287 debt issues from 2437 firms headquartered in 23 different countries with debt-issuing ...
Arena, Matteo, Roper, Andrew H
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Was the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission an act of dispossession?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has been described as one of the most comprehensive regional and national governance structures for Indigenous people in Australia. This paper looks briefly at its operational life between 1990 and 2005 and focusses on its abolition, arguing that this was an act of dispossession. The
Tui Crumpen
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Australia's Wellbeing Framework: Is It Really ‘Measuring What Matters’?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's newly established wellbeing framework, ‘Measuring What Matters’ (MWM), seeks to measure social progress and influence policy by reporting on 50 wellbeing indicators within five ‘themes’. In this article, we assess whether the MWM framework adequately measures what people in Australia value for their wellbeing by examining both the ...
Kate Sollis +2 more
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Interactions between Corporate Governance, Bankruptcy Law and Firms Debt Financing: the Brazilian Case [PDF]
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2008 This paper examines the relationship between corporate governance level and the bankruptcy law for such debt variables as firms’ cost of debt and amount (and variation) of debt. Our empirical results are consistent with the model's prediction.
Bruno Funchal +2 more
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