Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care
ABSTRACT The literature on adolescents' perspectives on growing up in kinship care is limited. The study aims to explore the lived experiences of adolescents in grandparent kinship care by examining how they respond to adversity, build support and exercise agency. The study recruited 22 grandparent–adolescent pairs in a large Korean city.
Eunju Lee +4 more
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Socioeconomic differences in labour market attachment after breast cancer: a population-based matched cohort study. [PDF]
Hjorth CF, Bakos I, Cronin-Fenton D.
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ABSTRACT Care leavers often encounter considerable health and well‐being challenges, underscoring the need for continued support into early adulthood. This small‐scale mixed‐methods study explored the health, well‐being and extended care experiences of participants in the South Australian Next Steps pilot program for residential care leavers, assessed ...
Sally‐Ann Keipert +3 more
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Does the reform of equalization of basic public services affect residents' sense of safety?-A case from China. [PDF]
Han Z.
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EU pension reform - An overview of the debate and an empirical assessment of the main policy reform options [PDF]
This paper on European Union (EU) pension reform provides an overview of the debate and, on the basis of a series of model simulations, makes an empirical assessment of the main pension policy reform options at the EU, not the Member State, level.
W. R�ger, K. Mc Morrow
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Developmental or Liberal? How Japan and South Korea Diffuse Hybrid Financial Market Norms
ABSTRACT East Asian economies have become major creditors in recent decades. However, while existing studies address the macroeconomic impact on the global economy of capital flows from East Asian economies, the impact of norm and policy diffusion that accompany such flows has received relatively little attention.
Yaechan Lee, Saori N. Katada
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The impact of institutional investors on risk and stock return autocorrelation in the context of the polish pension reform [PDF]
The main aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the increasing share of institutional investors resulting from the pension reform in Poland and stock return autocorrelation as well as risk level on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The problem
Henryk Gurgul, Pawel Majdosz
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Transparency upon request: the right to pay information and the gender pay gap
Abstract Pay transparency measures are widely adopted policy instruments to decrease the gender pay gap. This paper studies a policy that grants access to wage information only upon request, analysing a German pay transparency law that grants workers the right to request information about the earnings of colleagues in comparable positions.
Katharina Brütt, Huaiping Yuan
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Urban Healthy Ageing in Romania: Policy Options for Age-Friendly Cities and Long-Term Care Reform. [PDF]
Corman S.
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Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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