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Role of Changing Job Demands and Control in Incapacity Claims [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It remains a puzzle as to why incapacity claims rose in many OECD countries when life expectancy was increasing. While potentially due to hidden unemployment and policy failure, this paper tests a further explanation: that work has become more difficult ...
Ben Baumberg, E N Bau M B, E Rg
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Research Reports 7/2000

open access: yes, 2007
: The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them.
J. Michael Orszag   +3 more
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Barriers and Bootstraps? The Role of Attributions for Social Mobility Success and Failure in Policy Support and Faith in the American Dream

open access: yesJournal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 322-342, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite rising inequality making upward social mobility difficult, faith in the American Dream persists. Americans are often exposed to narratives where hard work leads to upward social mobility but are less likely to hear about the numerous instances where the same efforts don't pay off.
Erin Shanahan, Anne E. Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

ACTIONES LIBERAE IN CAUSA

open access: yesPravo, 2010
The thesis deals with the problem of responsibility for actione liberae in causa. Namely, in order for the existence of the institute of actione liberae in causa certain conditions are needed: (1) that the perpetrator has brought himself into the state ...
Žaklina Spalević
doaj  

Eurocrats Wanted: Why Some Member States Lag in European Commission Recruitment

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The article investigates the underrepresentation of certain member states within the European Commission (EC) and explores the broader challenges of achieving geographical balance in European Union (EU) recruitment. Drawing on the theory of representative bureaucracy, the study systematises factors that shape the attractiveness of EU careers ...
Jarolím Antal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can we estimate the impact of the choices package in pathways to work?

open access: yes, 2009
The Pathways to Work programme is an important policy innovation in Britain. It provides greater support, obligations and incentives for claimants of incapacity benefits with the goal of encouraging employment.
Adam, S., Bozio, A., Emmerson, C.
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Contractual Incapacity and the Americans with Disabilities Act

open access: yes, 2020
The doctrine of contractual incapacity allows people with mental disabilities to avoid their contractual liability. Its underlying premise is that the law has an obligation to protect people with such disabilities both from themselves and from ...
Scott, Sean M.
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‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

The Support Paradox: Explaining (Mis)Matches in Refugee Workplace Support

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent refugee movements have spurred corporate initiatives, with workplace support proving critical for integration. However, while research on workplace support for refugees remains limited, the broader support literature highlights paradoxical effects – support either benefits or harms recipients depending on how well it matches their needs.
Robin Pesch, Ebru Ipek
wiley   +1 more source

Insularité – altérité. La place de l’étranger dans l’Irlande du haut Moyen Âge

open access: yesDroit et Cultures, 2018
In a politically fragmented Gentile society like that of early Ireland, foreigners do not take part in the firmly established family solidarity system. That is, in any case, what legal tracts suggest, underlining their legal incapacity.
Christophe Archan, Olivier Viron
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