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B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do U.S. consumers really benefit from payment card rewards? [PDF]

open access: yes
Payment card rewards programs have become increasingly popular in the United States. But do consumers really benefit from rewards? In the United States, rewards are paid for primarily by the fees charged to merchants, and merchants may pass on the fees ...
Fumiko Hayashi
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

The economics of payment card fee structure: policy considerations of payment card rewards [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper considers possible public policies that could improve efficiency and welfare distribution in the U.S. retail payments industry. Mainly, four options, i) encouraging competition; ii) allowing merchants to surcharge; iii) regulating merchant ...
Fumiko Hayashi
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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
wiley   +1 more source

Debit Cards or Cash: Between Rational Choice and Payment Habits

open access: yesMoroccan Journal of Quantitative and Qualitative Research
In a context marked by the gradual digitization of payments, cash remains widely used in Morocco. This article analyzes the determinants of debit card use relative to cash by employing an approach based on rational choice and payment habits. Based on a
Abderrahim RHAFEL, Mustapha ZIKY
doaj   +1 more source

Perceived Enjoyment and Malaysian Consumers’ Intention to Use a Single Platform E-Payment

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2015
This study explores the perceived enjoyment of Malaysian consumers’ in adopting a single platform e-payment system and the relationship between perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment with consumers’ intention to use a single ...
Chin Lai Poey, Ahmad Zainal Ariffin
doaj   +1 more source

Payment Card Rewards Programs and Consumer Payment Choice [PDF]

open access: yes
We estimate the direct effects of rewards card programs on consumer payment choice for in-store transactions. By using a data set that contains information on consumer perceived attributes of payment methods and consumer perceived acceptance of payment ...
Ching, Andrew, Hayashi, Fumiko
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A puzzle of card payment pricing : why are merchants still accepting card payments? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents models that explain why merchants accept payment cards even when the fees they face exceed the transactional benefits they receive from a card transaction. Such merchant behaviors can be explained by competition among merchants and/or
Fumiko Hayashi
core  

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