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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Welfare policies"”.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PUBLIC WELFARE POLICIES: ADOPTIONS, PERCEPTIONS AND TRUST
… tools (ADM) and AI in Italian public welfare policies. Firstly, using qualitative methods, I explore how public employees perceive that AI adoption in public welfare policies can affect organizational and social factors such as administrative discretion and social inclusion. Secondly, …
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"The ""right to be helped"": welfare policies and notions of rights at the margins of Soviet society, 1917-1950"
… dissertation begins with an analysis of Soviet welfare policies towards unemployed and uninsured citizens. Then, it moves to the ways in which four communities of activists implemented these policies and advocated on behalf of their constituents. Throughout the chapters, I pay attention to the …
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The development of nursery schools and child welfare policies and practices in Bradford from the 1890s to the 1950s with particular reference to the work of Miriam Lord
… in the fields of nursery education and child welfare during the latter years of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Motivational Strategies, Conditional Welfare and Distributive Justice
… particular, in the case of income redistribution policies and the provision of essential services. I intend to show that negative inducements can have some advantages with reference to other motivational instruments. For example, negative inducements are often the main motivational strategies …
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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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Welfare policy and the family in post-apartheid South Africa: Care for orphans and vulnerable children in the context of HIV/AIDS and widespread poverty in Kopanong Municipality, Free State
… It asked whether the application of current welfare policies recognises or facilitates extended family care for orphans. The care for orphans has been conceptualised in terms of the lack of adequate number of members of extended family who would provide care for orphans and the quality of …
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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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Factors influencing low-income working mother's child care arrangements under different neighborhood and state policy contexts
The implementation of welfare reforms following passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 has increased pressures on parents receiving public assistance to participate in the labor force even during their children’s formative years. Under this …
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Examining Political Orientation, Attributional style, and Affirmative Action
… attributional style, emotion, and support for Welfare policies.</p>
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Factors Influencing Low-Income Working Mother's Child Care Arrangements Under Different Neighborhood and State Policy Contexts
… study findings are useful in informing social policies and interventions related to child care arrangements for working families, particularly by elaborating how characteristics of neighborhoods and welfare policies may affect the child care arrangements of social economically disadvantaged …
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Essays on the political economy of welfare and redistribution
… First, why do some countries have more generous welfare policies than others? Second, why do some people support welfare policies more than others? This collection of essays aims to answer these two questions, focusing on the political and economic determinants of welfare policy and attitudes. …
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Positively identifying children as citizens: A call for parallel due process rights
… children by investigating the nature of juvenile welfare policies that affect abused and neglected children by focusing on the Adoption Safe Families Act. Upon the settlement of the U.S., common law from England, known as parens patriae, has governed the juvenile justice system. This common law …
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Race, culture and social work education in the South African interregnum : a contextual analysis of attitudes and practice in the period 1990-1994
Welfare services generally were racially segregated and highly unequal, being heavily skewed towards the needs of the white population. Such welfare policies and service patterns were increasingly justified in ideological terms by reference to a specific form of cultural relativism rather than …
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Structural Adjustment and the Dismantling of Egypt's Etatist System
… it applied neoliberal structural adjustment policies in May 1991, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had required in return for foreign debt restructuring. It demonstrates how the Egyptian state was transformed from the etatist system that had characterized it since …
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Do Globalization and China’s WTO Accession Affect Social Spending in Its Eleven Neighboring Countries? An Empirical Study of the China Shock
… liberalization of trade and FDI-led growth policies, China became the favorite destination for foreign investors because of the large population providing enormous potential markets for consumption of goods and services as well as having a huge pool of low-wage workers for lower cost …
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Demystifying the leaking workforce pipeline : barriers facing female professionals in the Middle East and East Asia
… to auditing institutions, and establishing new policies to make the workforce a more attractive platform for women, such as by subsidizing childcare and transportation. We contend that although these countries have put great efforts in attracting women to the workforce, more systemic female …
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Reclaiming Our Identities as Good Mothers: Narratives of Mothers with Child Welfare Experience
… backgrounds. Mothers involved in child welfare for allegations of abuse are challenged with identifying with this definition of motherhood, as they face stigmatization by their communities and shame for their care of their children. Research affirms that mothers in child welfare are …
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Aktiveringspolitikens Janusansikte : En studie av differentiering, inklusion och marginalisering
The thesis aims to discuss if activation policies can support the inclusion of immigrant women and men into the Swedish labour market.A paradigmatic change in welfare policies has taken place in Europe during the last decade with the shift from welfare to workfare or activation policies. Some …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Inequality, Wealth, and Money
… of unbanked America, and by highlighting how welfare policies play a crucial role in determining whether households invest in the types of assets that build long-term wealth. Concerning the consequences of increasing inequality, this dissertation further shows how political donations and …
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UP150 PROACTIVE OFFICE: THE OFFICE THAT EDUCATES ON EMPLOYEE CARE AND WELL-BEING THROUGH PHYSICAL EXERCISE FOR HEALTH
… been demonstrated to modify the local companies' welfare policies in which we proposed the intervention. Furthermore, the research structure following the design-based research paradigms has constituted an efficient road map to assess the effectiveness of the results of the proposed interventions. …
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