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The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2021 The wealth-to-income ratio (WIR) in many Western countries, particularly in Europe and North America, increased by a factor of two in the last three decades.
Louis Chauvel +3 more
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Digital Shift in Swiss Media Consumption Practices
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020 Relying on the 2013 and 2016 rounds of individual questionnaires from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), we use multiple correspondence analysis to map Swiss media consumption practices while making use of the longitudinal character of panel data in an ...
Reveilhac Maud, Morselli Davide
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The Inclusiveness of Maternity Leave Rights over 120 Years and across Five Continents
Social Inclusion, 2021 Even though paid maternity leave was the earliest form of social protection specifically aimed at women workers and is fundamental in securing their economic independence vis-à-vis employers and spouses, it has received scant scholarly attention. Neither
Keonhi Son, Tobias Böger
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An extension and a refinement of van der Corput's inequality
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2006 van der Corput's inequality is extended and refined by using Euler-Maclaurin formula and other analytic techniques.
Jian Cao, Da-Wei Niu, Feng Qi
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Living wages across the Pacific Rim: A localised replication study from China
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2020 Theoretically, a living wage is a threshold that, once crossed, may transform qualities of work life, including from wage injustice to justice, organizational disengagement to commitment, and life dissatisfaction to satisfaction. Initial studies from New
Yuting Hu, Stuart C. Carr
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Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments versus the Inequality of Rewards [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010 We introduce a new distinction between inequality in initial endowments (e.g., ability, inherited wealth) and inequality of what one can obtain as rewards (e.g., prestigious positions, money). We show that, when society allocates resources via tournaments, these two types of inequality have opposing effects on equilibrium behavior and well-being ...
Ed Hopkins, Tatiana Kornienko
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Adjustment of the Danish model smoking cessation to target people with mental illnesses
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, 2023 Introduction The Danish model for smoking cessation is recommendable and has a high success rate, but there are groups that are not accommodated by the current offer, eg. people with mental illnesses.
Christina Ersbøll Ross
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Working to Reduce Poverty: A National Subsidized Employment Proposal
RSF: 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
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 Objective: COVID-19 in the US disproportionately affected, and continues to affect, racial/ethnic minorities. Although risky social gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2020 contributed substantially to the “winter surge” in cases and deaths, no ...
Tim A. Bruckner +2 more
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More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries
Swiss 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
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