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Does Continuous Disclosure Improve Investment Efficiency? Evidence from a Unique Regulatory Setting
Abacus, EarlyView.We examine the association between continuous disclosure and investment efficiency within the context of Australia's unique regulatory setting for continuous disclosure. Based on 8,527 firm‐year observations, we find that continuous disclosure is positively associated with investment efficiency and helps to mitigate both over‐investment and under ...
Sudipta Bose +3 more
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann +2 more
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Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
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Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2020 In article the attention to features of a regulation of criminal and administrative responsibility for violation of the right to freedom of worship and religions by the legislation of the Russian Federation and some Countries of the Commonwealth of ...
I. A. Zaytsev
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The Australian Union Movement and the Politics of Full Employment, 1945–1976
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that the Australian union movement played a crucial and often overlooked role in both the success and rapid decline of Australia's post‐war full employment framework. A particular focus is placed on the unions' response to the Fraser Liberal‐Country Party government's 1976 abandonment of post‐war full employment and the ...
Owen Bennett
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Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina +2 more
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Verbal Aggression: Linguistic and Legal Aspect
Law and SafetyThe article examines the phenomenon of verbal aggression as a linguistic and legal problem which, under certain conditions, can be qualified as an administrative or criminal offence.
N. I. Yelnikova, O. H. Yushkevych
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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Between the Eisteddfods: A Journey Through Learning Disability History to Inclusion
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background This paper reports on a participatory project on the social history of learning disability in resonance with current sociocultural discourses with people with learning disabilities, who have commissioned this work as their own original research.
Steven J. Walden +15 more
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