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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Socioeconomic developments in high‐income countries since the postwar era have induced fundamental changes in the predominant social risks to which people are exposed. This article seeks to determine whether this evolution is accompanied by changing expectations of the welfare state.
Andrew Zola
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Material Gworls: Consumption and Cosmopolitanism From Jamaica to Japan
Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article is part of the special issue “Racialization and the gig economy”, Anthropology of Work Review 47(1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. Amidst the economic precarity exacerbated by neoliberal policies of the 20th century, Jamaican women look beyond the island's shores to find financial stability.
Roxanne Kimberly Dobson
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Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This paper explores the geographical patterns of firm creation and investments in African FinTech and how they have evolved since the emergence of FinTech on the continent. Our findings show waves of investment, specialisation of different FinTech centres and the networks of FinTech capital.
Julien Migozzi, Dariusz Wójcik
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The Demand For Money in the U.S. During the Great Depression: Estimates and Comparison with the Post War Experience [PDF]
This study investigates the equilibrium demand for narrowly defined monetary aggregate during the Great Depression. We find evidence in support of a stable demand for real balance, but no evidence in support of stable demand functions for real currency ...
Dennis Hoffman, Robert H. Rasche
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Jefferson Institute's Military Archives Project in Serbia: From Ruins of War, a Nation's History Preserved [PDF]
, 2011 Analyzes the impact and challenges of a project supported by Knight to digitize Serbia's military documents and make them publicly available in a searchable archive, including evidence for prosecuting war criminals and locating secret mass ...
Djordje Padejski, Joan McQueeney Mitric
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Bombs, brains, and science : the role of human and physical capital for the creation of scientific knowledge [pre-print] [PDF]
, 2012 This paper analyzes the effects of human capital (HC) and physical capital (PC) for the productivity of science departments. To address the endogeneity of input choices I use two extensive but temporary shocks to the HC and PC of science departments ...
Waldinger, Fabian
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Медицинский вестник Юга РоссииObjective: to provide a brief overview of the contribution of the Rostov-on-Don Antiplague Research Institute staff to ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being during the Great Patriotic War (WWII) in the south of the USSR. Materials and methods:
O. F. Kretenchuk +4 more
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Take Off to Superiority: The Evolution & Impact of U.S. Aircraft in War [PDF]
, 2019 Military aviation has become a staple in the way wars are fought, and ultimately, won. This research paper takes a look at the ways that aviation has evolved and impacted wars across the U.S. history timeline.
Weidner, Lane
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On the Welfare Costs of Business-Cycle Fluctuations and Economic-Growth Variation in the 20th Century [PDF]
Lucas (1987) has shown a surprising result in business-cycle research: the welfare cost ofbusiness cycles are very small. Our paper has several original contributions.
Franco-Neto, Afonso Arinos de Mello +2 more
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WWII and Long Run Convergence in the OECD [PDF]
Existing evidence for unconditional convergence in the OECD is mixed, and depends largely on whether time series or cross sectional methods are used. In this paper we reconsider the evidence for unconditional convergence by dividing the long run data ...
John Landon-Lane, Peter E. Robertson
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