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Poverty and Adequacy of Social Security in Europe: a Comparative Analysis

Journal of European Social Policy, 1992
The aims of this collective research project in seven countries and regions in the EC, as regards content, were to establish in a comparative way the number of poor households in each country, to identity social groups at high risk of poverty, to assess the adequacy of social security in guaranteeing a minimum income (thus focusing on results, instead
Deleeck, Herman, Van den Bosch, Karel
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Social Redistribution, Poverty, and the Adequacy of Social Protection

2014
AbstractSocial protection systems traditionally serve a dual purpose: to maintain acquired living standards in the event of social risks and to combat poverty by guaranteeing adequate minimum incomes. More recently, these goals – which are basically instances of damage compensation – have been complemented with a third objective, namely to foster ...
Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon, Aaron Van den Heede   +3 more
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Financial Sustainability and Adequacy Issues on Social Security Pensions

2023
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The Adequacy of Income: A Social Dimension in Economic Development

The Journal of Development Studies, 1972
Summary The adequacy of income of a household may be defined as the ratio of its income to the income level required to achieve the conventional standard of living in the socio‐economic group to which the household belongs. This concept has greater relevance than that of income for the study of consumer behaviour (e.g.
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Social coverage for customized test adequacy and selection criteria

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test, 2014
Test coverage information can be very useful for guiding testers in enhancing their test suites to exercise possible uncovered entities and in deciding when to stop testing. However, for complex applications that are reused in dierent contexts and for emerging paradigms (e.g., component-based development, service-oriented architecture, and cloud ...
Breno Miranda, Antonia Bertolino
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Adequacy of Socialization as an Interpretation of the Social Desirability Response Set

Psychological Reports, 1974
An interpretation of the social desirability response set as measuring, in part, the adequacy of socialization was supported in that the social desirability ratings of the 26 Ss with low scores on the Edwards Social Desirability Scale tended to be more varied than those of 26 Ss with high scores. It was suggested that this factor may be significant in
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Social desirability, adequacy of social support and mental health

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 2000
The extent to which the association between satisfaction with social support and mental health was due to social desirability was determined. Whether this association differed between those high and low on social desirability was also examined. Measures consisted of the Crowne – Marlowe Scale, the Adequacy of Social Integration and Attachment Indices ...
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Adequacy of Social Facilities and Services

2017
This chapter examined the adequacy of the social facilities and services of the government-owned Southville Rodriguez Housing Project (SRHP) relocation site for some Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines. In particular, it evaluated the availability and sufficiency of the relocation’s electricity, water supply, health services, as well as ...
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The Logical Adequacy of Homans' Social Theory

American Sociological Review, 1970
Weber, Max 1964 The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. New York: The Free Press. Wood, James R. 1967 "Protestant Enforcement of Racial Integration Policy: A Sociological Study in the Political Economy of Organizations." Vanderbilt University, unpublished doctoral dissertation. Wood, James R. and Mayer N.
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Assessing the Adequacy of a Social System Design

1993
Too few organizations are presently able to design themselves in ways that permit them to meet modern day challenges. There are many reasons for this. Among the most critical reasons, however, is the inadequate design of our organizations that are largely responsible for structuring the kinds of systems that can cope with our complex social problems ...
C. Lynn Jenks, Mary Amsler
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