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Social inequality: empirical findings
2018The notion of social inequality lends itself to different understandings. One of them is the measurement of inequality over non-monetary dimensions of well-being. The companion Chapter 17 in this Handbook by Lasso de la Vega discusses theoretically the methods to measure inequality when variables are ordinal, and the methods for inequality measurement ...
Dutta, Indranil, Yalonetzky, Gaston
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[Social inequality in health].
Ugeskrift for laeger, 2022Social inequality is a significant challenge in the Danish healthcare system, and in general practice the inequality has many faces. To give more to those who need most is a difficult task, and research shows the diversity of the challenges experienced in the primary healthcare sector.
Merrild, Camilla Hoffmann +3 more
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Inequality in the Social Services
Social Service Review, 1980This article analyzes national data on the institutionalized population and shows the different patterns for white and nonwhite children and adults. It considers and refutes explanations based on differential problems and needs and explores organizational mechanisms.
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2020
Abstract This chapter contrasts the experiences of families living in very different circumstances, many of whom are engaging in what has been described as “intensive parenting.” Here we argue that it is not only privileged families but also, indeed, families from across the social spectrum that now invest in the kinds of “concerted ...
Mary Sturt, Margaret Hobling
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Abstract This chapter contrasts the experiences of families living in very different circumstances, many of whom are engaging in what has been described as “intensive parenting.” Here we argue that it is not only privileged families but also, indeed, families from across the social spectrum that now invest in the kinds of “concerted ...
Mary Sturt, Margaret Hobling
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2020
Abstract Social inequality is a central issue of modernity in the intersection between the idea of a market economy, with competition as an irreplaceable element, and democracy, with equality as one of its fundamental principles. In postwar Japan, after a period of fierce conflicts, a shared growth model that included a redistribution ...
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Abstract Social inequality is a central issue of modernity in the intersection between the idea of a market economy, with competition as an irreplaceable element, and democracy, with equality as one of its fundamental principles. In postwar Japan, after a period of fierce conflicts, a shared growth model that included a redistribution ...
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SOCIAL INEQUALITIES UNDIMINISHED
The Lancet, 1979Traditional differences in death-rates by social class continue in Britain in the 1970s, mostly at lower levels of mortality. The professions do well, unskilled workers and their families particularly badly. Data on health services are scanty, but they suggest that lower-class families, with greater needs, do not make proportionate demands on some ...
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The Hidden Inequality in Socialism [PDF]
, 2004 In the same time period over which the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia became freer, measured inequality of income for those countries increased. Researchers linked the increase to the egalitarian values of socialism and to the process of economic and political liberalization.
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SOCIAL BACKGROUND, EDUCATION, AND INEQUALITY
Economic Inquiry, 2019The role parents' education plays for the educational achievements of children is a source of unequal opportunities. Through this channel the number of educated affects the options of future cohorts, creating a social multiplier effect making improvements in education self‐reinforcing.
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2020
This chapter addresses the extent of social inequalities in contemporary Spain using a broad array of indicators. Trends in economic inequalities are firstly analysed. The risk of poverty and social exclusion are then considered because of their special relevance in the Spanish case in the context of the Great Recession.
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This chapter addresses the extent of social inequalities in contemporary Spain using a broad array of indicators. Trends in economic inequalities are firstly analysed. The risk of poverty and social exclusion are then considered because of their special relevance in the Spanish case in the context of the Great Recession.
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