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Inflation, Race, and Legislation—The Erosion in the Real Value of Monetary Compensation for Miners' Occupational Lung Disease in South Africa, 1973–2024

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 69, Issue 5, Page 335-344, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Martin Nicol, Jim teWaterNaude, Barry Kistnasamy, Rodney Ehrlich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Assessment of Local Government Strategies for Addressing Pension Costs [PDF]

, 2012
Uppendahl, Bret
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Livelihood, Language or Self‐Identification? The Shifting Base of Sámi Representation in Finland

Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of (i) the Finnish Eduskunta's enactment in June 2025 of a contentious change in the voting rules for elections to the Sámi Parliament and (ii) the publication in December 2025 of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission examining the historic discrimination practised against the Sámi population, this ...
David Arter
wiley   +1 more source

Reassessing China's Regional Modernization Based on a Grey-Based Evaluation Framework and Spatial Disparity Analysis. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Zhou W, Lin H, Zhang Z, Lin S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 379-405, May 2026.
Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there is no definition of grounds in general or a definition of grounds such as race or sex in particular in equality law. This article shows that in defining the
Shreya Atrey
wiley   +1 more source

The Enduring Allure of Neoliberalism: Individualising Responsibility for Housing Costs in the English Private Rental Sector

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 467-491, May 2026.
This paper explores how the affordability of rents is addressed in the long‐anticipated reform of the English private rental sector (PRS) by the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. The PRS has doubled in size since 2010, acting as a social housing substitute for some households.
Emma Laurie
wiley   +1 more source

‘I Do Not Feel Great About It, but It Was the Logical Decision’—An Exploration of Why England's Agency Social Workers Have Left Permanent Child Protection Roles

Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 977-987, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In 2023, England's statutory children's services recorded the highest number of agency social workers since records began. The cost of these workers, and the impact of an unsettled workforce on the children in receipt of their services, has led to a new set of national rules for agency social workers in children's social care.
Ciarán Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Building Legitimacy in the UK Platform Economy: Representative Strategies of Independent and Mainstream Trade Unions

Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 232-243, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper we explore the representative strategies of different trade unions within the UK platform economy, and the efforts to build legitimacy among a disparate workforce. Using data from multiple in‐depth research projects, we find that independent unions and self‐organised groups are competing to build representative claims from the ...
Mathew Johnson, Morgan Rhys Powell, Eva Herman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The French Pension Trust Fund: Can it cope with the Expected Financial Unsustainability of the PAYG Pension System? [PDF]

Anne Lavigne, Charlie Berger
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