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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Entitlements"”.
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Third-party effects and labor entitlements: an economic perspective
… the dialogue surrounding changes in labor entitlements, it is found that the ubiquity of external effects in the labor relation has been historically recognized by lawmakers as they grappled with the design of optimal legal rules. The second part begins with an examination of economists' …
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Performative Parenting: Social Norms and Fathers' Use of Parental Leave Entitlements
… 1993) for fathers’ use of parental leave entitlements, which cannot fully exist in Portugal and the UK under the current discursive and material conditions. My argument, via a Butlerian critique of regulation that posits parental leave policy frameworks as both regulated by and regulating …
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Entitlement advantage : the balance of local knowledge and capital access in real estate entitlements
… process. A paradox exists in real estate entitlements where the local player is advantaged by local information and connections, but may lack capital while the national player is advantaged by capital access, but may need local information and connections. The existence of this paradox …
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Towards a housing policy that accommodates children : a study of entitlements and entitlement failures in the National Housing Subsidy Scheme
This research is about a targeted response to poverty. The poverty alleviation programme in question is the South African National Housing Subsidy Scheme, and the thesis aims to bring together issues of child poverty and housing policy. In doing so, it addresses a number of gaps in the child …
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Imagining a right to health: HIV/AIDS, subjectivities and notions of entitlement
… ultimately influences their conceptualization of entitlements and rights. It achieves this by analyzing the broader historical and modern contexts in which the Kenyan PLWHA’s sense of self is constructed, including the norms on which attitudes about AIDS and those who suffer from it are grounded. …
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Choosing the right way : a comparative analysis of entitlement methods for private large-scale developments in Boston
… conform to the underlying zoning constraints, entitlements can be obtained via zoning variances & special permits, creation of a Planned Development Area, a map amendment changing the zoning designation of their site, or use of a Chapter 121A agreement. Each of these methods can be used under …
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The Emotional Logic of Participation in Intergroup Violence
… in evaluations of group endowments and group entitlements. These are widely-shared beliefs concerning who gets what and who deserves what in a given society. Thus, when group endowments and group entitlements are incongruent, either because the outgroup are enjoying resources to which they are …
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Occupational Pension Schemes and their Relevance for the Employment Relationship in Germany. A Case Study Approach in the German Financial Services Sector
Due to employees’ reduced entitlements to the German statutory state pension on the one hand, and the challenge to employers of a skilled worker shortage on the other, employers’ contributions towards occupational pension schemes (OPS) might be an effective human-resources management tool. Thus, …
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Do humans have special duties and moral obligations towards, rather than ‘rights’ over, nonhuman animals? And if such duties exist, what does our collective treatment of nonhumans say about human morality?
… for recognising the basic interests and moral entitlements of nonhumans, and (b) criticism of anthropocentric beliefs, systems and strategies that deny such interests and entitlements and rationalise our collective misuse of nonhuman beings. It begins by presenting evidence that it is not …
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The Human Rights Of Syrian Refugee Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Healthcare Access And Educational Opportunities In Turkey And Greece [before doctoral defense]
… the implementation gaps between formal legal entitlements and actual access to healthcare and educational opportunities for Syrian refugee women in Turkey and Greece between 2015 and 2025. The central research puzzle is one of convergence: despite fundamentally different legal frameworks, …
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Realising the right to food in India: Insights from the Midday Meal Scheme in Rajasthan
… context of the scheme: rights-holders and their entitlements; duty-bearers and their duties; and the mechanisms through which duty-bearers can be held to account for the non-fulfilment of their obligations. I draw on detailed field research in two districts to show that, in its present form, the …
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Health and literacy: a study of literacy practices in a day hospital in the Western Cape
… were dependent on the system for medical entitlements and treatment, they were able to rescript dominant medical literacies and technologies within the context of their own health and social needs. What was more important was not patients' encoding and decoding of medical texts but rather …
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Urban food access: a study of the lived experience of food access within a low-income community in Cape Town
… investigate which household characteristics and entitlements act as constraints to food access. This thesis integrates both of these bodies of thought to explore the limitations to food access present in a low-income urban community in Cape Town. This is achieved through an investigation of both …
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Dissonant discourses : othered voices from Australia's workworld, 1994-2002
… their exclusion from social citizenship - entitlements to employment, education and welfare - has been normalised.
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Distributive justice and patient selection
… these are context dependent, I discuss patients' entitlements in terms of limited medical resources.
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Reimagining Public Land: Municipal Land Use to Ease Housing Crisis in Boston
… transparent disposition processes, fast-tracked entitlements, and flexible affordability models. It argues for a policy shift in Boston toward a more streamlined, market-aware, and scalable land release strategy that prioritizes speed, cross-subsidization, and financial feasibility. Key …
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The Moral Foundations of Fair Labelling
… creates a mismatch between the offender’s entitlements (as per critical morality) and the legal categories and duties imposed on them when allocating blame in punishment. I argue that fair labelling is concerned with this specific kind of mismatch when the criminal law allocates blame in …
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