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Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2016
Sumit Agarwal   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Embodied practice in a disembodied time: How the COVID‐19 pandemic shaped direct work with children and young people

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and related restrictions imposed in the UK had a significant impact on social work practice with children and young people. As has been widely reported, practitioners were deprived of multisensory information in their assessments and of opportunities to connect with children.
Heather Ellis, Ariane Critchley
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Transnational Family Separation on Parenting and Psychosocial Well‐Being for Black African Migrant Parents in Hamilton

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of increased migration from sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) to Hamilton in the past 5 years, this qualitative study explores the experiences of Black African migrant parents resettling in Hamilton, Canada. Using semi‐structured interviews and thematic analysis, four key themes emerged: (1) impact of migration and family separation stress on ...
Tsinat Semagn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Meaning of Cleaning: Conflicting Norms About Learning to Clean in an Era of Outsourcing Domestic Work

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to analyse how Swedish mothers, regularly outsourcing cleaning, make use of different discursive resources and negotiate conflicting norms about domestic work when they discuss the role of cleaning in the socialisation of their children.
Ulrika Widding, Ann‐Louise Silfver
wiley   +1 more source

The Belgian view on the UK’s renegotiation is that European challenges can only be tackled through deepening European integration. Egmont Commentary, 18 October 2015

open access: yes, 2015
The outcome of David Cameron’s planned renegotiation of the UK’s EU membership will depend on how the other 27 EU member states react to his propositions.
Heine, Sophie
core  

Renegotiation-proof mechanism design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We study a mechanism design problem under the assumption that renegotiation cannot be prevented. We investigate what kind of equilibria of which mechanisms are renegotiation-proof under a variety of renegotiation procedures, and which social choice ...
Zvika Neeman   +3 more
core  

Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma with Small Fines: Penance Contract [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate the finitely repeated prisoners' dilemma with explicit contractual devices. We show that full collusion can be achieved by incentivizing the players' final period of play with small fines. Our incentivizing modality is the penance contract,
Hitoshi Matsushima
core   +2 more sources

Digital Crime, Dirty Money and the State: Southeast Asia's Illicit Political Economy and the Rise of Cybercrime

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, cyber scamming has expanded rapidly across Southeast Asia. These operations cluster in compounds within business parks, casinos, industrial zones and other real estate developments. Although organized crime is often assumed to thrive where states are weak, this article offers a politically grounded explanation for why ...
Neil Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign Debt as Intertemporal Barter [PDF]

open access: yes
Borrowing and lending between sovereign parties is modeled as intertemporal barter that smoothes the consumption of a risk-averse party subject to endowment shocks.
Kenneth M. Kletzer, Brian D. Wright
core  

The effects of salary history bans on wages, hiring, and wage gaps

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper provides a theoretical analysis of salary history bans, which prohibit firms from inquiring about applicants' prior wages. When salary histories are banned, firms cannot tailor their wage offers to the applicants' prior wages and thus offer the same wage to each group of workers.
Marc Gürtler, Oliver Gürtler
wiley   +1 more source

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