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State Labor Market Policies and Health
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Starting in the 2000s, state governments began adopting labor market policies, including minimum wage laws, earned income tax credits, paid family and medical leave programs, paid sick leave mandates, and scheduling laws. Evidence suggests that labor market policies can improve earnings and job quality, and some are associated with ...
SCOTT W. ALLARD, HEATHER D. HILL
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Integration Through Rights: Towards an Associational Paradigm
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Integration policies in the EU and the UK have over the past two decades increasingly emphasised duties and constraints for migrants. This article challenges the duty‐based model and proposes an alternative legal conception: ‘integration through rights’, with associational rights taking a central role.
Sarah Ganty, Clíodhna Murphy
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Post‐Breach Events, Itemisation and the Avoided Loss Rule
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In English law, the following equation is used to compute damages awards: (a) loss sustained in consequence of the breach of duty (‘prima facie loss’) minus (b) benefits obtained as a result of the breach of duty = (c) net loss. This paper explores the manner in which prima facie loss is defined.
Melody Hadfield
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries.
DAVID R. COMO
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
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