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Social Inequality

open access: yes, 1998
Inequality of income, wealth, and opportunities is an ancient concern of economists, philosophers, political leaders, and the community at large. Is inequality the unavoidable dark side of capitalism? Is it the price to be paid for fostering wealth creation and material progress? Can economic growth and social equity coexist?
openaire   +1 more source

Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequidades en salud relacionadas con el VIH/SIDA

open access: yesPerspectivas en Nutrición Humana, 2009
Tres perspectivas teóricas explican el origen de las desigualdades en salud entre los grupos sociales: perspectiva teórica psico-social, producción social de la enfermedad y ecosocial.
Gloria Cecilia Deossa Restrepo
doaj  

Inequity aversion and team incentives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
We study how the optimal contract in team production is affected when employees are averse to inequity in the sense described by Fehr and Schmidt (1999).
Biel, P.R.
core  

Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redução das desigualdades sociais na utilização de serviços odontológicos no Brasil entre 1998 e 2008

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública
OBJETIVO: Analisar o acesso e utilização de serviços odontológicos no Brasil. MÉTODOS: Foram utilizados os dados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios de 2003 e 2008, comparando-os com os de 1998.
Karen Glazer Peres   +5 more
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Understanding Racial Inequity in School Discipline Across the Richmond Region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This report comes from the MERC Achieving Racial Equity in School Disciplinary Policies and Practices study. Launched in the spring of 2015, the purpose of this mixed- method study was to understand the factors related to disproportionate school ...
DeBusk-Lane, Morgan   +8 more
core   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social inequalities in health among the elderly

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública
The aim of the present study was to assess social inequalities in health status, health behavior and the use of health services based on education level.
Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros   +3 more
doaj  

Proving Environmental Inequity in Siting Locally Unwanted Land Uses [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
This paper advances a process for determining whether, e.g., waste-to-energy facilities are disproportionately located in minority and poor communities, and the author asks others to join in searching for a scientifically sound and fair process of ...
Greenberg, Michael
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