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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Essays on Gender Pay Gaps and Wealth Concentration
, 2020 This dissertation consists of four independent chapters. While the first three chapters investigate different reasons for the Gender Pay Gap, the last chapter is concerned with the top tail of the wealth distribution. Chapter 1 is concerned with the question why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. This chapter
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow +9 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsWomen’s financial independence is essential for fostering equality. Despite recent progress in narrowing the gender gap in access to finance, a notable imbalance persists, even in advanced economies.
Susana Martínez-Rodríguez +1 more
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Entrepreneurial Business and Economics ReviewObjective: The objective of the article is to investigate the influence of the quality of institutions on women’s entrepreneurship from the perspective of European Union (EU) member countries.
Aleksandra Gaweł, Timo Toikko
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Strategies to Reduce the Racial and Gender Wealth Gaps in North Carolina [PDF]
, 2010 Suggests strategies to close gaps in median net worth by race/ethnicity, gender, and marital status, such as promoting low income-targeted programs, addressing discrimination in home and business ownership, and long-term community economic ...
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Gender and the distribution of wealth in developing countries [PDF]
, 2006 Only recently has it been recognized that women may not share in the wealth of men, even within the same household or family. Moreover, there is growing evidence that the gender distribution of wealth matters.
Deere, Carmen Diana, Doss, Cheryl R.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Women and Wealth: Insights for Grantmakers [PDF]
, 2015 Improving women's ability to build wealth is not only good for women, but is essential for the economic well-being of children, families, and our community.
Mariko Chang
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