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Affordable and Clean Energy: CO2 Emissions, Resilience and Inequality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable development means building the resilience of both people and the planet. It includes implementing strategies which reduce emissions while also enabling more vulnerable households to transition to clean and affordable energy. This paper examines household CO2 emissions in Ireland to highlight those who emit most and least in key ...
Nessa Winston, Monika da Silva Pedroso, Ciarán Mac Domhnaill   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sick-leave track record and other potential predictors of a disability pension. A population based study of 8,218 men and women followed for 16 years

BMC Public Health, 2009
Background A number of previous studies have investigated various predictors for being granted a disability pension. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of sick-leave track record as a predictor of being granted a disability pension in a large
Rosengren Annika, Palmer Edward, Wedel Hans, Wallman Thorne, Johansson Saga, Eriksson Henry, Svärdsudd Kurt   +6 more
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
wiley   +1 more source

Employment pathways of full and partial disability pensioners in Finland: a sequence analysis

BMC Public Health
Background Low employment rates among people with reduced work capacity pose a significant challenge for social and labor market policies in many countries.
Anu Polvinen
doaj   +1 more source

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering Apprenticeships: Youth Transitions, Industrial Capital and the Role of Working‐Class Households

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
wiley   +1 more source

Do working conditions explain the increased risks of disability pension among men and women with low education? A follow-up of Swedish cohorts

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2014
OBJECTIVES: Rates of disability pension are greatly increased among people with low education. This study examines the extent to which associations between education and disability pensions might be explained by differences in working conditions ...
Daniel Falkstedt, Mona Backhans, Andreas Lundin, Peter Allebeck, Tomas Hemmingsson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association Between Vasomotor Symptoms of Menopause and Retirement: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the association between vasomotor symptoms of menopause and retirement in Australian women. Design Population‐based cohort study. Setting Secondary analysis of six surveys collected between 1996 and 2010. Population A total of 6928 Australian women, born between 1946 and 1951. Methods Data were obtained from participants in
Biresaw Wassihun Alemu, Michael Waller, Leigh R. Tooth   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Decreasing the Generosity of Payments to Single Parents Have Employment and Earnings Effects? Evidence from Australian Administrative Data*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
We examine the impact of two changes to Australia's Parenting Payment Single (PPS) program, a welfare payment for low‐income single mothers. One change lowered the age of the youngest child cut off for program eligibility, forcing new welfare entrants onto the less generous Newstart (unemployment) payment.
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
wiley   +1 more source