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Labour-centred Politics and Judicial Institutionalisation: The Lineaments of an Early Proto-Regulatory State Model in Australia

Bayari, Celal - 2014

Australia, since the early 1980s, has been a leading advocate and practitioner of the neo-liberal economic model, also known as the Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-American) model due to its geographical origins in the UK and the US, and its subsequent ascendancy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada,...

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Subjective well-being, income and relative concerns in the UK

Distante, Roberta - 2010

We present an empirical model aimed at testing the relative income hypothesis and the effect of deprivation relative to … mean income on subjective well-being. The main concern is to deal with subjective panel data in an ordered response model … income impacts negatively on both completely satisfied and dissatisfied individuals, while relative income affects positively …

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Future harm and current obligations: the case of global warming

Spash, Clive L. - 1993

There is a time during which aggregate benefits from greenhouse gas emissions dominate costs, but less comfort should be drawn from this situation than current emphasis on double CO2 scenarios suggests. The intertemporal asymmetry of impacts means initial benefits to most regions, from slight...

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Many hands make hard work, or why agriculture is not a puzzle

Guzmán, Ricardo Andrés - 2007

The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture, some 10,000 years ago, triggered the first demographic explosion in history. Along with population, working time increased, while food consumption remained at the subsistence level. For that reason, most anthropologists regard the adoption of...

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People do not adapt to income changes: A re-evaluation of the dynamic effects of (reference) income on life satisfaction with GSOEP and UKHLS data

Kaiser, Caspar - 2018

Do people adapt to changes in income? This paper shows that there is no evidence of adaptation to income in GSOEP (1984 … estimating (dynamic) life satisfaction equations, in which I simultaneously enter contemporaneous and lagged terms for a … respondent’s own household income and their estimated reference income. Additionally, I instrument for own income and include …

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Making economic growth and well-being compatible: evidence from Japan

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J.; Ono, Hiroshi - 2019

Whether economic growth improves the human lot is a matter of conditions. We focus on Japan, a country where reforms in the mid-1990s shifted the country from a pattern of rampant economic growth and stagnant well-being, to one of modest growth and increasing well-being. We discuss the policy...

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Structural changes in economic growth and well-being. The case of Italy's parabola

Pugno, Maurizio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2019

-being independently from income. …

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Many hands make hard work, or why agriculture is not a puzzle

Guzmán, Ricardo Andrés - 2007

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Families of Grounded Theory: A Theoretical Structure for Novel Researchers

Mohajan, Devajit; Mohajan, Haradhan - 2023

This paper tries to discuss families of grounded theory. Grounded theory is a systematic research analysis that deals … through the systematic data analysis, and the final result can test existing theories or develop a new theory. Therefore, it … different iterations, and evolved a number of variants, such as classic grounded theory, Straussian grounded theory …

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In the Shadow of War: Social, Distributive and Civil Conflicts in Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine

Cerami, Alfio - 2023

This article examines the relationship between presence of vertical and horizontal inequalities and the emergence of social, distributive and civil conflicts in Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine. Are ethnic, religious or linguistic...

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