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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn +9 more
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This paper provides a review of part of the literature on inequality and social welfare, with a special focus on the Gini index. The paper first presents the extended Gini index used for measuring inequality, as well as the source decomposition of the ...
Wodon, Quentin, Yitzhaki, Shlomo
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Introduction Inequality-A Multifaceted Phenomenon
Inequality is ubiquitous in time and space. It is often measured simply as differences in incomes between various groups, but the phenomenon is more complex than so. Inequality is a many-faceted phenomenon that manifests itself in a number of ways.
Lundahl, Mats, +5 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Frontiers in SociologyPerceptions of social inequality are shaped not only by individuals’ objective social class but also, and more powerfully, by their subjective social status.
Giacomo Melli, Leo Azzollini
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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China [PDF]
Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper examines three phases of development since the foundation of the People's Republic: the central planning era (1949 -1978); the pro-urban ...
Bingqin Li, David Piachaud
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Knowing one’s place? The role of income inequality in shaping positioning bias across 29 countries
Frontiers in SociologyThis study investigates how individuals’ misperceptions of their relative position in the income distribution—referred to as positioning bias—are shaped by income inequality.
Timo Wiesner +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
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Dialogues in HealthThe World Health Organization's (WHO) guidance to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, alongside post-Arab Spring legal reforms, has prompted many countries to prioritize Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Despite these efforts, progress remains
Mai Mohamed Abdou Mahmoud +1 more
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