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The Suburbanization of Offices: A Canadian Example [PDF]
, 1989 The emergence of the office sector as the largest sector in the Canadian economy has attracted increasing amounts of attention in academic literature.
Blake, Christine D.
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Life-cycle position and migration to urban and rural areas: estimations of a mixed logit model on French data [PDF]
Migration flows between urban and rural areas in developed countries show a strong difference in migration destinations with regard to age. Our paper analyses, in the French case, who rural areas attract or repel and what their so-called “pull-factors ...
Florence Goffette-Nagot +2 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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Suburban residential developments: an international model of production?
, 2009 This paper explores the production of suburban residential developments in the urban region of Paris at the turn of the 1990-2000's, with a special focus on residential enclaves. In France, the influence of the US models (i.e. New Urbanism) on contemporary processes of suburban privatization and enclosure has been widely discussed by the academics and ...
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The development of Residential housing as the symptom of suburbanization in Lower Silesia district
, 2012 Ostatnie lata w Polsce charakteryzują sie nasilonymi procesami suburbanizacji miast średnich, a zwłaszcza dużych aglomeracji. Przejawia sie to w wyludnianiu miast centralnych i wzroście liczby ludności strefy podmiejskiej.
Maciejuk, Marian
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The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
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Perfecting Exit: The Politics of Quitting Among Migrant Care Workers in the United States
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Quitting tends to be overlooked in studies of resistance and labor because of its individual and private character, its ineffectiveness in changing conditions of labor, and the difficulty of studying it, in favor of more organized and public protests and strikes.
Cati Coe
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is a critical public health crisis regarding the infant mortality rate between black and white mothers in the USA. This issue is more pronounced in North Carolina, where black infants have a much higher infant mortality rate than whites.
Jeffrey Shears +7 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior work suggests that children who are supported by their extended family kinship network experience fewer internalizing problems, with most of this support coming from the maternal side of the family. However, less is known about the unique contributions to well‐being associated with maternal versus paternal extended family support among ...
Kimberly R. Davenport +2 more
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