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Finding a Suitable Fostering Agency: Swedish Foster Carers' Reflections on Navigating a Mixed Welfare Market

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due to marketization, foster carers in many Western countries can choose between a number of local child welfare authorities (LAs) and independent fostering agencies (IFAs) to be contracted by. Through semi‐structured interviews with foster carers (n = 24), this study examined how foster carers navigate the Swedish foster care market and what ...
Evelina Fridell Lif
wiley   +1 more source

A Quantitative Analysis of Tax Competition v. Tax Coordination under Perfect Capital Mobility [PDF]

open access: yes
Theory predicts that strategically-determined tax rates induce negative externalities across countries in relative prices, the wealth distribution and tax revenue.
Enrique G. Mendoza, Linda L. Tesar
core  

Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does an optimistic tone in annual reports predict better financial and non‐financial performance?

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In the current paper, we investigate whether management adopts an optimistic disclosure tone to impress the corporate audience or to provide incremental information (II) by anticipating positive corporate performance. Specifically, we test whether an optimistic tone in annual reports (ARs) is a positive predictor of better financial and non ...
Francesco Gangi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining Latin America's Transition to a Circular Economy for Plastics. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Manage
Rodríguez-Meza LR   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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