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The distribution of landed property
, 2009 The distribution of property is established through various mechanisms. In this paper we study the acreage distribution of land plots owned by natural persons in the Zl\'{\i}n Region of the Czech Republic.
Andersson +25 more
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Emotional messiness of legal document analysis: Working with last wills and testaments
Area, EarlyView.Abstract This piece offers a reflection on the messiness of looking at legal documents through an emotional lens, considering both the emotions embedded and created by the document and those engendered in the researcher during the research process.
Jennie Doyle
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames [PDF]
We propose an alternative method for measuring intergenerational mobility. Traditional methods based on panel data provide measurements that are scarce, difficult to compare across countries and almost impossible to get across time.
Chris Telmer +2 more
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O uwarunkowaniach procesu kształtowania się i stabilizacji rosyjskich nazwisk [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this article is to point to the factors that started the process of family names formation in the Eastern Slavonic area. It also discusses extralinguistic reasons for fixing them as permanent surnames.
Hrynkiewicz-Adamskich, Bożena
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Renaming in Adoption: Exploring Name Ambivalence in Adoptive Parents' Name Stories
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Names are central to identity, yet their role in adoption, where identity and family dynamics are complex, remains under‐researched. This article draws on findings from a qualitative study of names and adoption in England and Wales to examine adoptive parents' decisions about the first names of their children.
Jan Flaherty +3 more
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Orthographic Variations of Ukrainian Surnames in Western Pennsylvania
Names, 1972 This article examines orthographic variations of Ukrainian surnames in Western Pennsylvania. The discussion is based upon 1,100 Ukrainian surnames and their various American English renditions, totaling 3,000 names.
Stephen P. Holutiak-Hallick
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The imaginary of the name [PDF]
, 2005 In wide areas, including Albania, names were fixed as patronymics and family surnames, showing that their context fluctuation is related to a relative transmissible fixity which must make possible an instrumental politics in naming practice as well as
Doja, A.
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Social and Cultural Influences on Parental Mediation of Digital Media Use in Azerbaijan
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We report on influences on Azerbaijani families' parental mediation strategies for managing young children's digital practices at home. Data were gathered with five families in 2019 and 2023 using the Living Journals approach. Both fathers and mothers revealed the influences of gender and cultural norms on parental mediation.
Sabina Savadova, Lydia Plowman
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Giving up Foreign Names: An Empirical Examination of Surname Change and Earnings [PDF]
In this paper we compare the earnings development for a group of immigrants that changes their names to Swedish-sounding or neutral names with immigrants who retain their names from the same region of birth.
Arai, Mahmood, Skogman Thoursie, Peter
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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