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Modelling Private Wealth Accumulation and Spend-down in the Italian Microsimulation Model CAPP_DYN: A Life-Cycle Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In microsimulation literature a limited number of models include a module aimed at analyzing and projecting the evolution of privat e wealth over time.
Mazzaferro, Carlo   +3 more
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Capital and the Family

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Elderly Narrative Reflections on the Contradictions in Turkish Village Family Life after Migration of Adult Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
International and domestic labor migrations are changing the face of many countries. Those economic and demographic transitions collide with cultural expectations and ways of conducting intergenerational relations.
Coles, Roberta
core   +1 more source

Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
wiley   +1 more source

Healthy landscapes, healthy people: living landscapes as sites for the integration of heritage and modern health knowledges

open access: yesCritical Public Health
This paper explores social-ecological relational dynamics in health knowledge and practices in health education relating to the social practices of government and communities, and how the microbial world could be relationally normalized for better health
Martin Mickelsson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guidelines Towards Better Participation of Older Adults in Software Development Processes using a new SPIRAL Method and Participatory Approach

open access: yes, 2018
This paper presents a new method of engaging older participants in the process of application and IT solutions development for older adults for emerging IT and tech startups.
Aula Anne   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The Cost of Love: Emotional Labour and Moral Tensions in the Lives of Chinese Young Carers

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Like adults, children also provide care. This article explores the emotional labour of young carers who care for ill or disabled family members in China, a context where children's caregiving remains largely invisible in both policy and scholarship.
Kefan Xue, Kaidong Guo
wiley   +1 more source

Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
wiley   +1 more source

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