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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green finance and the mitigation of corporate debt financing in China: evidence and implications for sustainable finance

Frontiers in Environmental Science
To address the pressing challenges posed by environmental issues, numerous countries have been actively exploring green finance practices. Using a sample of listed companies in China from 2008 to 2020, this study aims to enrich the understanding of the ...
Quan’An Fu
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where Imprisonment, Housing Instability and Wellbeing Intersect: Evidence From Over Two Decades of Data

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on life event data on housed former prisoners from the nationwide indefinite life panel, Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, spanning more than two decades. This study investigates, using panel data methods, if social connectedness mediates the association between incarceration and unstable ...
Christopher L. Ambrey, Renee Zahnow
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of managerial overconfidence on debt financing decisions of Egyptian listed companies: empirical study [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Al-Buḥūṯ Al-Tiǧāriyyaẗ, 2019
This study aims at investigating the effect of managerial overconfidence on debt financing. Based on aconvenient sample of (125) companies drawn from Egyptian listed companies’ qualified population for a period from (2012 to 2017) to constitute (750 ...
أحمد محمد زاهر
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‘Supercharging’ the Economy: Representations of Youth Unemployment and Welfare During COVID‐19

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global COVID‐19 pandemic (2020–2022) created profound social policy challenges. In Australia, business closures and rising unemployment prompted a Coalition government to introduce unprecedented income support measures aimed at preventing an economic crisis and softening the financial impacts on citizens.
Sonia Martin, Simone Casey
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Expenditure Elements on Debt Financing and The Moderating Role of Accounting Conservatism

The Indonesian Journal of Accounting Research
This research aims to analyze the influence of CSR expenditure elements on debt financing with accounting conservatism as a moderating variable.
Siti Shobandiyah, Sari Rahmadhani
doaj   +1 more source

Zuranolone: A case study in (regulatory) rush to judgement?

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Sage, in collaboration with Biogen, submitted a new drug approval for zuranolone for postpartum depression (PPD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) in December 2022. In August 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration granted approval for PPD but denied approval for MDD.
Lisa Cosgrove, Milutin Kostic, Barbara Mintzes, Gianna D'Ambrozio, Allen Shaughnessy   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Racial gaps without racism: How English universities frame inequality in access and participation plans

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
wiley   +1 more source