This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these...

This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these...

This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these...

The article analyses the potentialities and challenges facing the creation of a human rights system of indicators. The analysis focus on seven fundamental points. Starting with a discussion on the differences between human rights indicators and social indicators, the author presents the...

There is the possibility to affirm on a very surprising (methodological) equivalence, beyond a historian space-time, between two important attempts toward the forever difficult "problem solving": I: Consolation of Philosophy, by Roman philosopher and mathematician Boetius (ca. 480–524 or 525),...

The humankind wisdom is supposed to be a related and open-deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to generosity, creativity, solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, is distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner...

Acest studiu este rezultatul interdisciplinar si organizatoric recent (15-17 august 2013) al dezbaterilor, (re)formularilor, redactarii curente si a reviziei agregarii textelor/interventiilor ce au tins spre explicarea/intelegerea conceptelor operationale de: Bioplatforme, Eco-Bio-Geo-Economie,...

The article analyses the potentialities and challenges facing the creation of a human rights system of indicators. The analysis focus on seven fundamental points. Starting with a discussion on the differences between human rights indicators and social indicators, the author presents the...

It is a first stage address to the potential (e-)readers of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and International Journal of Sociology Study (IJSS) in order to invite them to be co-operands within a collective effort to identify the ‘Heritage, Challenge, Perspective' through their own...