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Organizational Forms and Welfare Coalitions: Corporate Law and the Movement for Social Insurance in the US and UK

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of the welfare state have long argued that, in liberal democracies, welfare state expansion depends on successful coalitions in its favour. Under what circumstances do these coalitions form? Party systems, economic interest, and political mobilisation have all been thought to influence the emergence of coalitions for welfare state ...
Maya Adereth
wiley   +1 more source

Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Sweden, as in many countries, immigrant youth tend to exhibit higher educational aspirations than native‐born youth, yet their attainment often falls short of their greater ambitions. This study, resulting from a research project focused on educational transitions in two Swedish municipalities, explores two mechanisms that help explain the ...
Andrea Voyer, Stefan Lund
wiley   +1 more source

The Ineffective Origin of Australian Protectionism? Victoria's McCulloch Tariff of 1866

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
Economic historians have identified Victoria's McCulloch Tariff of 1866 as the genesis of Australian protection of manufacturing—a trade‐policy regime that was to persist until the late‐twentieth century. The McCulloch Tariff imposed 10 per cent duties on a range of manufactured imports; this range was further extended by the closely following Customs ...
Brian D. Varian
wiley   +1 more source

Association of School‐Based Health Center Availability With Child Mental Health Outcomes

open access: yesHealth Services Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To estimate changes in student mental health outcomes after the adoption of a school‐based health center (SBHC). Study Setting/Design Using a retrospective, quasi‐experimental design, this study compared changes in mental health diagnoses and healthcare utilization among students in school districts that adopted an SBHC to students ...
Carrie E. Fry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Foreign Investors’ Information Access Vary with Geopolitical Tensions? Evidence from Corporate Conference Calls

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how foreign investors’ access to corporate information varies with pairwise geopolitical tensions between the investor's and investee's countries. Using a sample of 1,760 country‐pairs, we find that geopolitical tensions between a conference call host firm's country and a foreign country relate negatively with investor participation ...
YIFEI LU   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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