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

The 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

Far From Routine: Employers' Recruitment and Control Strategies in Two Low Wage Sectors

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contrary to HRM's prevailing view that low wage work is routine and not requiring specific HR strategies, this study reveals how employers within low wage sectors pursue active and diverse strategies to segment the labour force and shape the work package.
Eva Herman, Jill Rubery, Gail Hebson
wiley   +1 more source

Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

Individualised niches in a variable environment—Consequences for environmental change responses

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) can be important for population performance in a variable and changing environment because individuals with different traits have different fitness responses. Furthermore, there are three mechanisms via which individuals can interact with their environment to potentially improve fitness: niche conformance ...
Anastasiia Enne, Vishnu Venugopal, Peter Nabutanyi, Meike J. Wittmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Freedom and Audit Fees: Evidence From the USA

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the association between US state‐level economic freedom and audit fees. We argue that economic freedom lowers clients' perceived business risk, thereby requiring reduced audit effort and exposing auditors to a lower probability of litigation risk, which enables auditors to charge lower audit fees to clients headquartered in states ...
Mahmud Hossain, Ahsan Habib, Dinithi Ranasinghe, Marlissa Phillips   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
wiley   +1 more source

Parental/Guardian-Child Physical Activity in Relation to Racial/Ethnic Inequities in the Americas: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Almeida MFDS, de Castro JAC, Silva AFD, Silva DAS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mitigating policy uncertainty: What financial markets reveal about firm‐level lobbying

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Elections can lead to substantial policy changes and, thus, are a significant source of risk. Firms can respond to such policy uncertainty by lobbying, but it is hard to quantify whether they do so and, if so, how much lobbying benefits them. We construct a new dataset and leverage investors’ expectations of variability in stock returns in the
Kristy Buzard, Nathan Canen, Sebastian Saiegh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The development and validity of the Early Learning Tool for children 0-3-year-old in rural Pakistan. [PDF]

J Glob Health
Hentschel E, Siyal S, Al Sager A, McCoy DC, Yousafzai AK.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Computed tomographic assessment of plate offset in modified tibial plateau levelling osteotomy with a precontoured plate with an anatomical design for treatment of cranial cruciate ligament rupture and medial patellar luxation in small‐breed dogs: An in vitro study

Australian Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Aim To evaluate the effect of plate offset using a PCM‐TPLO plate with an anatomical design for medial translation of the proximal tibial segment and frontal‐plane alignment during modified TPLO in small‐breed canine tibial models using CT. Methods Five distinct small‐breed tibial morphologies were reproduced as three‐dimensional‐printed bone models ...
T‐W Kwon, K‐W Kang, B‐J Kang
wiley   +1 more source