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Mind the Gap! Social Capital, East and West [PDF]
, 2007 Recent Eurobarometer survey data are used to document and explain the stock of social capital in 28 European countries. Social capital in Central and Eastern Europe – measured by civic participation and access to social networks – lags behind that in ...
Jan Fidrmuc, Klarita Gërxhani
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An Analysis of the Determinants of Informal Employment in Urban and Rural Regions in Iran: Pseudo-Panel Data Approach [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2021 Informal employment typically poses many problems for communities and governments. For example, most informal workers face problems relating to poverty and economic insecurity due to the lack of a social security organization and labor law in the ...
Shahryar Zaroki +2 more
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Social Resources and Community Resilience in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Recovery efforts after natural disasters typically focus on physical infrastructure. In general less attention is paid to the social infrastructure that might impact the capacity of the community to rebuild.
Kathleen A Cagney +3 more
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Informal Employment as a Threat to Social Security in the Labor Market in Ukraine within an Economic Transformation [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2020 The specific features of informal employment, which is one of the main threats to social security in the labor market, in the context of transformational changes in the economic environment have been identified, and current trends in informal employment ...
Bondarevska Kseniia V.
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Neocortical structures of the left frontal lobe, middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in particular, have been suggested to be linked to the processing of punishing and unpleasant outcomes in decision tasks.
Beatriz Martín-Luengo +4 more
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Informal social control and intimate partner violence [PDF]
Injury Prevention, 2014 Emery et al 1 have conducted an important study to evaluate the protective effects of informal social control on intimate partner violence (IPV). They hypothesised that in China, where IPV prevalence is high and the formal social control of IPV is poor, informal social control might reduce IPV injuries and IPV.
Achini, Jayatilleke +3 more
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Informal settlements and squatting in Romania: socio-spatial patterns and typologies [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2013 The emergence of informal settlements in Romania is the result of a mix of factors, including some social and urban planning policies from the communist and post-communist period.
Bogdan Suditu, Daniel-Gabriel Vâlceanu
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Detecting formal and informal interests in forest governance
MethodsX, 2022 To reveal the interests of actors in forest governance, this paper proposes a power-based interest identification (PII) approach. Based on the assumption of intentional action, the benefits that actors derive from policy impacts are the result of ...
Jiacheng Zhao +4 more
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Controllability of social networks and the strategic use of random information [PDF]
Computational Social Networks, 2017 This work is aimed at studying realistic social control strategies for social networks based on the introduction of random information into the state of selected driver agents. Deliberately exposing selected agents to random information is a technique already experimented in recommender systems or search engines, and represents one of the few options ...
M. Cremonini, F. Casamassima
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Configuration and Functioning of Social Networks in the Border Region [PDF]
Prostranstvennaâ Èkonomika, 2014 Using the methodology of actor-network analysis the author identifies configuration and dynamics of informal social networks in the border region. The study is based on the example of mechanisms and practices of importing fruits and vegetables from Heihe
Tatiana Nikolaevna Zhuravskaya
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