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A multidimensional assessment of social cohesion in 47 European countries [PDF]

This paper presents a theoretically based, multidimensional and comparable measurementof social cohesion applicable in 47 European countries using the most recent micro-level data of European Value Study (EVS) from 2008. The analysis is conducted in four
BORSENBERGER Monique, DICKES Paul, VALENTOVA Marie   +2 more
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Incorporating social indicators for an equitable carbon budget allocation among different geographical regions

Environmental Research Communications
As the global temperature continues to rise each year, limiting global warming to 1.5 °C is increasingly becoming a challenge due to the shrinking size of the remaining carbon budget.
Syeda Tasnia Hasan, Michael O Wood, Horatiu A Rus, Simron Jit Singh, Tingting Wu   +4 more
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Measuring and validating social cohesion: a bottom-up approach [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to provide a synthetic macro index of social cohesion based on the observation of several individual level variables. Based on the definition of social cohesion by Bernard (1999) and Chan et al. (2006) an index of social cohesion
ACKET Sylvain, BORSENBERGER Monique, DICKES Paul, SARRACINO Francesco   +3 more
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Magnetizing Neighborhoods Through Amateur Arts Performance [PDF]

, 2008
Outlines the Arts and Cultural Indicators in Community Building Project's findings on how amateur, informal arts activity improves a community's desirability, social integration, and quality of life as measured by population, test scores, and crime ...
D. Garth Taylor
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The Role of Social Capital in Economic Development. Investigating the Causal Nexus through Structural Equations Models [PDF]

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the causal nexus connecting social capital’s diverse aspects to the “quality” of economic development in Italy. The analysis accounts for three main social capital dimensions (i.e.
Fabio Sabatini
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Trabalho, precarização e resistências: novos e velhos desafios?

Caderno CRH
O artigo discute por que a precarização social do trabalho é um novo e velho fenômeno, é diferente e igual, é passado e presente, um fenômeno de caráter macro e microssocial.
Graça Druck
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An analytical framework to nowcast well-being using mobile phone data

, 2016
An intriguing open question is whether measurements made on Big Data recording human activities can yield us high-fidelity proxies of socio-economic development and well-being. Can we monitor and predict the socio-economic development of a territory just
Gabrielli, Lorenzo, Giannotti, Fosca, Pappalardo, Luca, Pedreschi, Dino, Smoreda, Zbigniew, Vanhoof, Maarten   +5 more
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Update on the Ecuadorian Economy [PDF]

, 2009
This paper provides an overview of major macroeconomic and social indicators and policy changes in Ecuador over the two and a half years since President Rafael Correa took office in January 2007, including economic growth, social spending, fiscal policy,
Luis Sandoval, Mark Weisbrot
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'A disastrous blow': psychiatric risk, social indicators and medical authority in abortion reform in post-war Britain. [PDF]

Med Humanit, 2020
Crook S.
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A Great Reckoning: Healing a Growing Divide: A Summary of the Boston Indicators Report 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
Summarizes the Boston Indicators Project's findings on the city's economic, social, and technological progress in civic vitality, cultural life and the arts, economy, education, environment, health, housing, public safety, technology, and ...

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