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Union Density in Norway and Sweden: Stability versus Decline

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2022
The aim is to explain why union density is not only considerably higher in the Ghent country Sweden than in non-Ghent Norway but also why it has declined much more in Sweden, in particular among blue-collar workers.
Anders Kjellberg, Kristine Nergaard
doaj  

Bureaucratic Barriers to Social Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers during the COVID-19 Disaster in South Africa

open access: yesAfrican Human Mobility Review, 2021
The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic could be minimised by social protection instruments such as unemployment insurance and distress relief grants.
Fatima Khan, Mikhail Kolabhai
doaj   +1 more source

Awareness and use of a community health worker program among racial/ethnic minority adults in Philadelphia: Results from a cross‐sectional community health survey

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Community health workers (CHW) programs are effective at reducing hospitalizations, improving mental health, and supporting health‐promoting behaviors. Research suggests awareness and use of CHW services remain uneven across communities nationally.
Stephen Bonett   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Stopping and Utility in a Simple Modelof Unemployment Insurance

open access: yesRisks, 2019
Managing unemployment is one of the key issues in social policies. Unemployment insurance schemes are designed to cushion the financial and morale blow of loss of job but also to encourage the unemployed to seek new jobs more proactively due to the ...
Jason S. Anquandah, Leonid V. Bogachev
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Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Active versus passive policies of unemployment: growth and public finance perspectives

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2011
This paper develops a general equilibrium endogenous growth model in an overlapping generations framework, and compares, in terms of economic growth, a passive unemployment policy (unemployment insurance) with an active unemployment policy (government ...
Rangan Gupta, Charlotte Du Toit
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
wiley   +1 more source

Total war and the emergence of unemployment insurance in western countries

open access: yes, 2020
Beginning with Richard Titmuss, several scholars argued that modern warfare left a major imprint on welfare state development. This article analyses the impact of both world wars on the introduction of unemployment insurance.
Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence–Driven and Digital Practices for Circular Business and Finance: Insights for Advancing Hubs for Circularity

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emerging concept of Hubs for Circularity (H4Cs) presents an opportunity to create collaborative, self‐sustaining regional industrial ecosystems that drive circular economy transitions at scale. However, the operationalisation of H4Cs faces financial, organisational and data‐driven challenges.
Aditya Tripathi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANALISIS ASURANSI PENGANGGURAN DENGAN ASUMSI NON-ZERO MORTALITY

open access: yesBarekeng, 2021
Indonesia dengan jumlah penduduk sekitar 267 juta jiwa memiliki angkatan kerja sangat besar. Tetapi jumlah lapangan kerja yang tersedia tidak mampu menyerap semua angkatan kerja ini.
I Nyoman Widana, I Putu Winada Gautama
doaj   +1 more source

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