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Fischer, Justina AV - 2008

The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in education at the societal level. Using socio-demographic...

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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility: An Analysis for OECD countries.

Fischer, Justina AV - 2009

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A Litmus Test of Academic Quality

Orkodashvili, Mariam - 2009

The paper discusses the major issues connected with the accreditation procedures in higher education system in the U.S. The questions raised are as follows: what are the reliable and credible indicators of quality instruction that could be measured in the process of accreditation of higher...

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Quality education through Child-Friendly Schools: resource allocation for the protection of children’s rights

Orkodashvili, Mariam - 2010

The paper discusses the idea and purpose of Child-Friendly Schools (CFSs) initiated by the UNICEF. It analyses the implications of CFSs in terms of improving children’s health and nutrition, promoting gender equality, protecting children’s rights, re-defining education quality and creating...

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Ethno-diversity and bio-diversity: Methods and measurement

Evers, Hans-Dieter; Yusoff, Anis; Shamsul, A.BB. - 2010

Biology and Anthropology/Sociology have dealt with issues of diversity for a long time, developing different concepts, theories and methods. In recent years there has been, if not a convergence, but at least a recognition that problems in nature and in society are interrelated. This paper...

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Communism - A survival analysis

Subramaniam, Viswanatha - 2017

Human generation try to fit into a 4 dimensional survival concepts comprising the Environment, Geography, Economic and Social dimensions, over centuries and their pedigree too progressed under these guidelines. Because of the divergent level of survival targets in the economic and social strata...

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Socio-Economic Well-Being and Women Status in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis

Ashraf, Iram; Ali, Amjad - 2018

This study has analyzed the effect of socioeconomic well-being on women's status in case of Pakistan. To overview the … women's status in case of Pakistan, a comprehensive index is constructed by using social, economic and political status of … women. This study follows the methodology of United Nations Development Program (UNDP) gender inequality index …

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Sociological and Economic Inequality and the Second Law

Kafri, Oded - 2008

There are two fair ways to distribute particles in boxes. The first one is the Casino’s way, namely an equal chance to any box. The second one is the thermodynamic way, namely an equal chance to any different configuration of particles and boxes. The second way, calculated here, yields an...

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Hen or Egg? The relationship between IC-technologies and social exclusion

Krings, Bettina - 2005

If we take a look at developments on the labour market, we find that the rate of employment stands in a close relationship to the introduction of new technologies and their social and cultural consequences. The immediate effects of new technologies on new forms of work-structures are, in fact,...

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Jeopardies in human security and politicization of COVID-19

Pachankis, Yang - 2022

Background: The systematic review is conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown measures of PRC with a history & continuation of nuclear proliferation, current electronic warfare, metallic pollution from military heavy industry, and actinic radiation pollutants from chip production. Apart from the...

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