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Balancing harm prevention and liberty preservation when implementing financial risk assessments for gambling in the United Kingdom: Insights from open banking data

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims The United Kingdom (UK) and Dutch governments have recently implemented mandatory financial risk (affordability) assessments for online gambling as a harm prevention measure. Assessments should trigger at a level of gambling expenditure that strikes a balance between harm prevention (most at‐risk consumers should surpass ...
Robert M. Heirene, Philip Newall
wiley   +1 more source

Flood vulnerability in township informal settlements. [PDF]

Jamba
Gcabashe SW, Pillay S.
europepmc   +1 more source

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY NETWORKS IN MEXICO-U.S. MIGRATION

A household's decision to send migrants is based on information the household has on the expected returns and the costs of migration. Information on migration flows from both family migrant networks and community migrant networks.
Sadoulet, Elisabeth, Winters, Paul C., de Janvry, Alain   +2 more
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann, Gabriel Brown, Johan Fourie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say

This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much human capital to acquire depends ...
Uebelmesser, Silke, Devillanova, Carlo, Stark, Oded, Casarico, Alessandra   +3 more
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Russian Migration Policy and Its Impact on Human Development [PDF]

For Russia, migration policy – in terms of internal or/and international migration flows management – was an ever-important element of the State activities. Concentrated on State interests, the policy also resulted in human development.
Irina Ivakhnyuk
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

A decade of discourse: Exploring sentiments and trends around immigration on social media from 2014 to 2024. [PDF]

Soc Sci Med
Nguyen TT, Mullaputi PSP, Yue X, Mane H, Santhosh A, Dennard E, Alibilli AS, Makres K, McCoy RG, Nguyen QC.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Human smuggling networks operating between Middle East and the European Union. Evidence from Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani migrants in the Netherlands

, 2009
Bilecen B. Human smuggling networks operating between Middle East and the European Union. Evidence from Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani migrants in the Netherlands. COMCAD Arbeitspapiere - working papers, 62.
Bilecen, Basak
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Getting on the grid: A field experiment on bottom‐up political pressure and access to essential public services

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Water is essential for human life, yet governments frequently leave vulnerable citizens to rely on informal channels for access. What can motivate governments to provide public services such as water to citizens trapped in informality?
Nikhar Gaikwad, Anjali Thomas
wiley   +1 more source