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Understanding the Link Between Social Support Networks, Self‐Efficacy and Future Orientation During Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of At‐Risk and Non‐at‐Risk Emerging Adults

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At‐risk emerging adults may be less inclined to invest in future goals, yet the mechanisms underlying their future orientation (FO) remain unclear. Therefore, this study examined how social support network attributes contribute to FO in at‐risk and non‐at‐risk emerging adults and the mediating role of self‐efficacy.
Eran P. Melkman, Yafit Sulimani‐Aidan
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Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
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Gender and Education in Central Asia

This open access book brings together established and emerging scholars to explore policies, statistical trends and representative research on gender equity across post-Soviet Central Asia.

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Politicized Medicine in the GDR: The Example of the Closed Venereology Ward at Dresden‐Friedrichstadt Hospital

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and Objectives Closed venereology wards existed in both Western and Eastern European dictatorships. These institutions isolated, disciplined, and “educated” individuals with Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) or suspected infections.
Maximilian Schochow, Florian Steger
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Examination of Afghanistan's Development Traps

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development traps operating at the demographic, economic and institutional levels, we seek to assess whether and to what extent their functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically,
Klemen Knez, Tina G. Lokar
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Challenges of innovation in post-Soviet higher education

, 2019
This presentation examines the challenges of innovation in the dramatically transforming contexts of higher education in China, Russia, Georgia and Ukraine.
Oleksiyenko, PA
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Attitudes towards the market economy and capitalism in Ukraine, Poland and Russia

Economic Affairs, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the results of opinion polls conducted in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia, focusing on attitudes towards the market economy and capitalism. The polls first asked six questions about the market economy without explicitly referencing ‘capitalism’.
Rainer Zitelmann
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Freely (Un)Equal

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender equality in the economy is a key issue on the political agenda. Western countries have long pursued policies promoting free competitive markets, with the EU focusing on harmonisation for market freedom. This study examines how economic freedom impacts gender equality using an instrumental variable approach. Results reveal mixed effects:
Matteo Migheli
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International comparators and poverty and health in Europe

, 2000
Summary points: In 1970 male life expectancy at age 15 was 56 in countries that now form the European Union; 55 in the communist countries of central and eastern Europe (excluding the Soviet Union); and 52 in the Soviet Union.
Marmot, M., Bobak, M.
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Access to Credit and Employment Liquidation. Firm‐Level Evidence From Eastern and Central Europe (2001–2007)

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the changes in the structure of employment in Central and Eastern European firms between 2001 and 2007, before the Global Financial Crisis and following the reforms in the labour and credit markets in these economies.
Elisabetta Magnani
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