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Economic Vulnerability and Severity of Debt Problems: An Analysis of the Irish EU-SILC 2008 [PDF]
In this paper, using Ireland, where debt issues are of particular salience as a test case, we seek to understand the extent to which the measures currently employed as national indicators of poverty and social exclusion succeed in capturing over ...
Bertrand Maître +2 more
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Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao +2 more
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Debt overhang in emerging Europe ? [PDF]
This paper assesses the extent to which debt overhang poses a constraint to economic activity in Emerging Europe, as the region emerges from the recent financial and economic crisis.
Brown, Martin, Lane, Philip R.
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Supplementary Private Health Insurance and Household Debt, Health Care Utilization, and Medical Spending Following A Health Shock. [PDF]
Int J Soc Determinants Health Health ServPark S, Kim K, Callison K.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable production and operations (SPO) are widely expected to influence firm performance through improvements in efficiency, legitimacy, and organizational capabilities. This study uses ISO certifications as a proxy for SPO and examines both adoption determinants and performance implications using a balanced panel of 142 manufacturing ...
Damla Durak Uşar
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"Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States-- Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze--An Update to 2007" [PDF]
I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent "middle-class squeeze." Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s.
Edward N. Wolff
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To explore sex differences in social, health and lifestyle characteristics associated with binge‐eating behaviors in a large population‐based study. Method This study included 84,995 participants (women 52.1%) aged ≥ 15 years from the French national random population‐based EpiCov cohort.
Junko Kose +21 more
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The reaction of consumer spending and debt to tax rebates – evidence from consumer credit data [PDF]
We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the ...
Sumit Agarwal +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka +3 more
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