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Showing 1 to 20 of 3504 for “"Welfare"”.
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Swedish Social Welfare and its Application to American Welfare Systems
<p>Swedish Social Welfare and its Application to American Welfare Systems concerns itself with the issue of determining the origins of the modern Swedish social welfare system. Additionally, the causes behind the formation of the system are evaluated for their relevancy concerning the formation of …
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Show Horse Welfare
… on the horse industry to address show horse welfare. The purpose of this research was to expound on the welfare of stock-type show horses through the perspective of those directly involved; considering the understanding of welfare, the value placed on welfare, and ethical and mooral decisions …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… navigate the rationality and practice of welfare conditionality based on their own needs, interests and desires. Despite the production of a new array of techniques of conditionality their application remains light, appearing as bureaucratic concerns with formalities rather than genuine …
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Rethinking the welfare state: towards an alternative to the American welfare state
The contemporary American welfare state is a highly controversial institution plagued with tremendous deficiencies. There is agreement over the entire political spectrum that the current welfare system needs an overhaul, but there is considerable disagreement on how this should or could be …
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Intersections of Welfare and Child Welfare Systems and Single Mothers' Activism in the U.S.
… of single mothers involved with child welfare services and mothers activism against child welfare services, in order to more deeply understand the intersections between and meanings of the welfare and child welfare systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the U.S. This study had two research …
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Welfare Reform: Employers' Perceptions of Factors Associated with Virginia's Initiative for Employment Not Welfare
Welfare reform has been an issue in America for many years. The need to make positive changes to the welfare system escalated to the point that federal legislation was passed in 1996. This legislation mandated that each state establish welfare-to-work programs and require that welfare recipients …
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Pensions reforms, redistribution and welfare
… remains which pensions system yields the highest welfare under differing economic conditions. We use a standard overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents to address the various questions. The role of the pensions system varies between consumption smoothing and redistribution, or a …
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Farmer Welfare and Agricultural Biotechnology
I present three models that estimate the impact of genetically modified crops on farm labor, farm productivity and the environment. I find that genetically modified corn has no impact on farm labor usage, while genetically modified cotton and soybeans decrease farm labor usage. Corn that has been …
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Three essays on household welfare
… of poverty and the impact of shocks on household welfare. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Subjective Poverty and Natural Disasters: Evidence from the 2007 Earthquake in Peru This paper examines the causal impact of natural disasters on subjective poverty, defined on …
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The economics of animal welfare: an appraisal of welfare issues ifn the South African poultry industry
Growing consumer awareness of animal welfare has co-evolved with increases in intensive farming, particularly of battery chickens. This rise in consumer awareness recently saw bans on battery farming in parts of Europe. This thesis addresses the difficulties that would follow any similar attempt to …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance, and Welfare
… the aggregate income shocks absorbing and welfare improving roles of remittances in emerging economies. I develop a model to derive testable implications for aggregate remittance behavior. Using a panel data set of 102 developing countries from 1975 to 2013 and the generalized method of …
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Το Welfare Washing σκοτώνει τα ζώα
Η ηθική μας στάση απέναντι στα ζώα που εκτρέφονται για κατανάλωση αποτελεί ένα ζήτημα που εγείρει έντονες φιλοσοφικές και πρακτικές συζητήσεις. Στον σύγχρονο κόσμο, όπου η μαζική κτηνοτροφία χαρακτηρίζεται από συνθήκες έντονης εκμετάλλευσης των ζώων, αναπτύσσεται ένας εναλλακτικός τρόπος σκέψης που …
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Cultural humility in child welfare practice
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Child support enforcement and welfare dependency
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Welfare distortions of climate change policies
… aims to break down the different components of welfare loss in computer general equilibrium (CGE) models, so as to further understand the issue. The MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, a large-scale computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, simulates trends in global …
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Wearable Devices for Improved Equine Welfare
The use of digital technology is becoming increasingly popular in equine research. Current applied technologies for livestock are being used to detect pathogens, observe locomotion patterns, determine estrus periods, and measure vital parameters. These sensors leverage global positioning systems, …
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTORSHIP AND CHILD WELFARE WORKERS’ JOB SATISFACTION, AND INTENTION TO REMAIN EMPLOYED IN CHILD WELFARE
… workers’ intention to remain employed in child welfare. This study was conducted in Children Family Services (CFS), San Bernardino. Ninety six child welfare workers completed the survey using the JSS‑CW and the IRE‑CW instruments. A quantitative research design was utilized to analyze the data. …
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Work, poverty and welfare reform: welfare-to-work programmes for lone parents in depressed local labour markets
This dissertation examines the impact of welfare reform on the work and poverty of lone parents living on welfare in depressed local labour markets. It uses a comparative approach to compare supply-side welfare-to-work programmes in Sheffield, UK and Buffalo, USA, and draws on current debates in …
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