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Volunteering, Crime and Secondary School Attendance: Evidence From Queensland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Student absenteeism is a critical issue in Australia and worldwide, with alarming declines in attendance rates further exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. While research has long highlighted the relevance of school and family factors, less is known about how the broader community context shapes attendance.
Matthias Kubler, Brooklyn Corbett, Annemaree Carroll, Martin Mills, Deborah Lynch, Wojtek Tomaszewski   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Impact of Price Changes of Goods and Services on Poverty in Iran [PDF]

فصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2008
Subsidies and indirect taxes are important instruments in order to implement government policy aimed at poverty reduction. This paper develops a methodology to assess subsidies and indirect taxes from poverty reduction aspect.
Khosrow Piraee,, Mohammad Reza Shahsavar
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Deciphering the Palimpsest: Chronological Uncertainty and the Interpretation of Mining Landscapes at Písečný vrch (Czech Republic)

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigated the Písečný vrch (Czech Republic), a site exploited for quartz mining in both prehistoric times and the 20th century. Due to their morphological similarity across all mining periods, the differentiation between pits with archaeological potential and recent ones is challenging.
Jan Fišer, Petr Krištuf, Jan Kropáček, Vojtěch Barták, Lenka Starková, Vítězslav Moudrý   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The gift remembered: The Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) Anatomical Donor Stewardship's ethical and practical handbook for anatomy donor tributes

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Providing students with a way to honor human body donors during or after an anatomy course has been shown to help provide a sense of closure and comfort to students and, when present, donor families. Gestures of gratitude for donors can also emphasize humanistic values of respect, empathy, and professionalism.
Bobbie J. Leeper, Rhiannon E. Robinson, Kelsey Stevens, Lacy M. Cleveland, Danielle N. Edwards, Nicole L. Geske, Burhan Gharaibeh, Anya Goldina, Jill Kirby, Jacqueline Phillips, Leslie R. Sewell, J. P. Swigart, Trisha Waldman, Jonathan J. Wisco, Jeremy J. Grachan   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dominance of Indirect Taxes in Estonian State Budget

Eesti Majanduspoliitilised Väitlused, 2009
Recession has sharply erected the question of tax burden and the optimal proportion of different kinds of taxes among the incomes of the budget. Indirect taxes and consumption taxes, which proportion is different according to different methodologies ...
Olev Raju
doaj   +1 more source

Pro-Poor Tax reforms, with an Application to Mexico [PDF]

This paper proposes a new methodology to test for whether indirect tax reforms are pro-poor. The methodology extends stochastic dominance techniques and enables identifying tax reforms that will necessarily be deemed absolutely or relatively pro-poor by ...
Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi, Abdelkrim Araar   +2 more
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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

Tax Incentives for Intellectual Transformation of Companies

Финансы: теория и практика
The subject of this study is the tax incentives that promote the intellectual transformation of Russian companies. The objective of the article is to assess the role of stimulating tax policy in ensuring the intellectual transformation of business ...
A. V. Tikhonova, A. V. Kozharinov, N. A. Nazarova, D. I. Ryakhovsky, N. R. Kuzieva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Taxes, Estonian state budget and economic crises. Maksud, riigi eelarve ja majanduskriis

Eesti Majanduspoliitilised Väitlused, 2010
Recession has sharply erected the question of tax burden and the optimal proportion of different kinds of taxes among the incomes of the budget. Indirect taxes and consumption taxes, which proportion is different according to different methodologies ...
Olev Raju
doaj   +1 more source

Welfare consequences of a recent tax reform in Mexico [PDF]

This paper evaluates the indirect tax reforms that took place in México in 1995 and 1998, focusing on their impact on welfare at the household and social levels.
Carlos M. Urzúa
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