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Australian 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
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A spatial multilevel analysis of Italian SMEs Productivity [PDF]
In this paper, we adapt multilevel analysis methods to investigate the spatial variability of SMEs productivity across the Italian territory, and account for differences in the socio-economic context.
Davide Piacentino, Giorgio Fazio
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Australian 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
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Restructuring and rescaling water governance in mining contexts: the co-production of waterscapes in Peru [PDF]
, 2012 The governance of water resources is prominent in both water policy agendas and academic scholarship. Political ecologists have made important advances in reconceptualising the relationship between water and society.
Budds, Jessica, Hinojosa, Leonith
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Industry and its Surroundings – Multiplier Effects and Embeddedness of Companies
Prace Komisji Geografii Przemysłu Polskiego Towarzystwa Geograficznego, 2018 Research of industrial enterprises concerning their impact on the surroundings through multiplier effects is becoming more and more important due to changes in the organisation of production processes. They mainly result from the increasing technological
Krzysztof Wiedermann
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Methodological bases of regional diagnostics as an applied direction in socio-economic geography
Geographical Education and Cartography, 2020 The purpose of this article is to consider regional diagnostics as a relatively new direction in modern socio-economic geography, revealing its theoretical and methodological foundations – the essence, structure, methods, approaches, and meaning. Main material is devoted to the analysis of the essence of regional diagnostics, highlighting its tasks and
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum presented a pivotal moment in the nation's democratic landscape. Despite support for Indigenous well‐being, the referendum did not secure the necessary approval, prompting extensive analysis of its outcome.
Scott Baum, William Mitchell
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Economic Geography and Regional Growth: An Empirical Evidence From Greece [PDF]
There is a huge literature regarding the main determinants and sources of economic growth. Most of the recent work emphasizes on the role of knowledge, and innovation activities typically produced by a specific sector of the economy, and furthermore in ...
Elias Kourliouros +3 more
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Testing the ‘residential rootedness’ hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK [PDF]
, 2015 The work on this paper was funded by a Marie Curie grant from the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program (ID 252752).Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a ‘local event’, the literature argues that entrepreneurs are ‘rooted’ in ...
Reuschke, Darja, Van Ham, Maarten
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