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Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Hours Worked by Primary Carers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary caregivers constitute a major unpaid workforce in Australia. The aim of this study was to determine the sociodemographic factors that are associated with carer workloads. Multinomial logistic regression modelling was applied to the nation‐wide Australian Government survey.
Andrew J. Hamilton
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Aid for Trade on Income Inequality: The Case of Developing Countries

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business
AfT (Aid for Trade) in developing and less developed countries can help reduce income inequality while promoting exports. The present study analyses the effect of AfT on income inequality for 32 countries using the Driscoll-Kraay estimator for fixed ...
Ayşe Arı, Jørgen T. Lauridsen
doaj   +1 more source

Economic growth and income inequality in sub-Saharan African countries: A test of Kuznets’ hypothesis [PDF]

Ekonomski Anali
In this study, the influence of economic growth on income disparities in 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries is investigated for the period 2005-2015.
Odhiambo Nicholas M., Saungweme Talknice
doaj   +1 more source

Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Income Inequality in European Union [PDF]

The greater are differences between members of society in terms of income, the greater inequality of income exists. And that forms also more marked differences in parameters, characterizing people’s quality of life. Aim of research – evaluate differences
Ivanova, Svetlana
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The Assessment of Environmental and Income Inequalities

, 2022
We analyze the income and environmental inequalities and their interrelation by means of both the multidimensional poverty measurement and the Gini index decomposition. We stress how overlap between the two dimensions plays a relevant role and allows powerful insights on the contribution of the environmental dimensions to poverty.
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

The role of editorial boards in shaping scholarly communication: A large‐scale mapping of their composition and structure

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Editorial boards play a central role in shaping scholarly communication by influencing what research is published and how disciplinary boundaries are defined. Despite their importance, large‐scale, systematic evidence on their composition and structure remains limited.
Evangelina Becerra‐Rodero, José Luis Ortega   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnicity and the surgical management of early invasive breast cancer in over 164 000 women

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
This large national study examined in detail the patterns in surgical management of early breast cancer in women of different ethnicities. Allowing for different patterns of age and stage at presentation, the surgical management of early breast cancer was similar in all women, regardless of ethnicity. All treated the same Background Limited information
T. Gathani, K. Chiuri, J. Broggio, G. Reeves, I. Barnes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source