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Education and development in the caribbean: a cointegration and causality approach [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses cointegration and vector error-correction models to analyse the causal relationship between education and development in Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago using annual time series data from 1964 to 1998.
Brian Francis, Sunday Iyare
core  

The Gender Harassment Experiences of Women Who Play, Coach, Officiate and Manage Sport in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sport remains a male‐dominated industry despite increasing numbers of women participating and working in a variety roles and contexts. In many sports, women report negative experiences and face gendered challenges as elite players, community players, coaches and referees.
Samantha Marshall   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTS OF CAPPING ELIGIBILITY FOR COMMODITY PROGRAM PAYMENTS [PDF]

open access: yes
Adjusted Gross Income, Commodity Payments, Eligibility, Means Test, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Q12, Q18,
Ahrendsen, Bruce L.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Philanthropy and Indigenous Initiatives: Insights From Australian Donors

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on a survey and interview data, collected from a group of 180 donors who made monetary gifts to an Australian higher education institution, to better understand what drives individuals and organisations to donate to Indigenous initiatives.
Celina McEwen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrity Versus Ideology in Automated Assessment: The Jobseeker Snapshot

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the entanglement of political ideology and digitalisation in the Australian approach to online assessment of claims for income security, with a focus on job seeker classification. In the Australian social security system, the Job Seeker Classification Instrument (JSCI) has been used to screen and ‘score’ income security ...
Angelika Papadopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

The Interface Between Australia's Aged Care System and the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Population Perspectives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The interface between Australia's aged care and disability systems has come into sharper focus with the 2023 Review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme recommendation to retain the upper age limit for entry and the introduction of an age criterion for assessment in the Aged Care Act 2024. Both are set at age 65.
Anna L. Howe
wiley   +1 more source

A simple view of the heavy-tailed sales distributions and application to the box-office grosses of U.S. movies

open access: yes, 2014
This letter treats of the power-law distribution of the sales of items. We propose a simple stochastic model which expresses a selling process of an item.
Yamamoto, Ken
core   +1 more source

Australia's Wellbeing Framework: Is It Really ‘Measuring What Matters’?

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

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