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Inequality and social security reforms [PDF]

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008
This paper develops a quantitative Markovian overlapping generations model with altruistic individuals and incomplete financial markets in order to analyze the long-run distributional implications of two hypothetical public social security policy changes, made in response to impending future demographic shifts.
Hairault, Jean-Olivier, Langot, François   +1 more
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Sentimentality and Social Reform [PDF]

American Journal of Sociology, 1916
The tragedies of leadership in social reform result in the main from failure to work out a practicable basis of partnership between ideas and sentiments. Men recognize theoretically that ideas always appear swaddled in feelings. But many of us go about the day's business apparently on the assumption that ideas are as clear-cut and unemotional as ...
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Improving Educational Pathways to Social Mobility: Evidence from Norway’s Reform 94

Journal of Labor Economics, 2019
We study the impacts of a major reform to vocational secondary education that aimed to move beyond the trade-off between providing occupational skills and closing off academic opportunities.
Marianne Bertrand, M. Mogstad, Jack Mountjoy   +2 more
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From Within Outwards

Iperstoria, 2023
This article examines the use of self-culture in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) and sees it as inherently related to the calls for social reform that pervaded the works of American literary Romanticism from the 1830s to the ...
Daphne Orlandi
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Public demand for social investment: new supporting coalitions for welfare state reform in Western Europe?

The Future of the Social Investment State, 2018
Social investment has recently received much attention among policy-makers and welfare state scholars, but the existing literature remains focused on policy-making on the macro level.
Julian L. Garritzmann, Marius R. Busemeyer, Erik Neimanns   +2 more
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L’Enquête, entre science de l’État et thérapie sociale

Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 2020
This article reconstructs the history of the reception and appropriation of the category ‘Inquiry’ in empirical social science research in Germany between the 1880s and 1930.
Martin Herrnstadt, Léa Renard
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The Construction of the Postsocialist Urban Identity: China’s Reform and Drifting Urban Population

Cinergie, 2018
In the transition from the socialist system to the postsocialist system since 1978, thousands of Chinese urban-to-rural migrant workers and students of socialist movements and urban laid-off workers of socialist state-owned enterprises were no longer ...
Huimin Deng
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Winston Churchill as a One Nation Conservative

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023
Paradoxically the social reforms which entitle Churchill to the title of One Nation Conservative were enacted when he was a member of a Liberal Cabinet after 1908.
Vernon Bogdanor
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André Rebouças Beyond the Atlantic: The Racism and Sociability Network of a Black Nineteenth-Century Engineer

HoST, 2023
In this article, we analyse the intellectual trajectory of André Pinto Rebouças (1838-1898) between 1870 and 1888, and how he problematised the relation between education, technology, and social reform.
Silva Wladimir Barbosa da, Barreto Maria Renilda   +1 more
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The role of workday characteristics on perceived stress and time pressure among nurses in Finnish long-term care – a cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research
Background Aging populations and nursing workforce issues are causing challenges for long-term care globally, and therefore, improving the work-related wellbeing and retention of nurses is crucial.
Visa Väisänen, Salla Ruotsalainen, Laura Hietapakka, Juhani Sulander, Timo Sinervo   +4 more
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