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Working to Reduce Poverty: A National Subsidized Employment Proposal

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2018
Subsidized employment programs that increase labor supply and demand are a proven, underutilized strategy for reducing poverty in the short and long term.
Indivar Dutta-Gupta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Changing Attitudes Towards Gender Equality in Switzerland (2000–2017): Period, Cohort and Life-Course Effects

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociology, 2020
This paper investigates trends in Swiss women’s and men’s gender attitudes in the period 2000–2017 using the Swiss Household Panel data. Based on pooled OLS and fixed-effects models, we establish the following for women and men: (1) over this time period,
Bornatici Christina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociology, 2017
We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Falcon Julie, Joye Dominique
doaj   +1 more source

Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019
Using Danish administrative data, we study the impacts of children on gender inequality in the labor market. The arrival of children creates a long-run gender gap in earnings of around 20 percent driven by hours worked, participation, and wage rates.
H. Kleven, Camille Landais, J. Søgaard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis

open access: yesJournal of Economic Structures, 2020
Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in combating poverty and income inequality by opening blocked advancement opportunities for disadvantaged segments of the population.
Md Abdullah Omar, K. Inaba
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fintech, financial inclusion and income inequality: a quantile regression approach

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Finance, 2020
Although theory suggests that financial market imperfections – mainly information asymmetries, market segmentation and transaction costs – prevent poor people from escaping poverty by limiting their access to formal financial services, new financial ...
Ayşegül Demir   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Region of birth differences in healthcare navigation and optimisation: the interplay of racial discrimination and socioeconomic position

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background While a large body of research has documented socioeconomic and migrant inequities in the effective use of healthcare services, the reasons underlying such inequities are yet to be fully understood.
Ivana Paccoud   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, 2019
Objective: This article documents wide-ranging revisions to the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID), which seeks to maximize the comparability of income inequality estimates for the broadest possible coverage of countries and years ...
F. Solt
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Heinz’s inequality and Bernstein’s inequality [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1997
Summary: The purpose of the present account is to sharpen Heinz's inequality, and to investigate the equality and the bound of the inequality. As a consequence of this we present a Bernstein type inequality for nonselfadjoint operators. The Heinz inequality can be naturally extended to a more general case, and from which we obtain in particular Bessel ...
openaire   +1 more source

Digital technology and nursing care: a scoping review on acceptance, effectiveness and efficiency studies of informal and formal care technologies

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background The existence, usage and benefits of digital technologies in nursing care are relevant topics in the light of the current discussion on technologies as possible solutions to problems such as the shortage of skilled workers and the increasing ...
Tobias Krick   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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