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Cover Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
Giving Behaviours and Social Cohesion
How People Who ‘Give’ Make Better Communities
Lorna Zischka
‘Giving’ time and money to the community indicates the existence of relationships that draw people together, and ‘who people give to’ indicates how inclusive these relational networks are. Using UK data for the analysis, Zischka argues that a person’s willingness to ‘give' is not only influenced by social cohesion; it also helps to generate social cohesion. For thriving communities, we therefore need to consider our ‘giving’ as well as our ‘getting’.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Mar 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114202
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being
Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being
Editor:
Conchita D’Ambrosio
The past decade has been characterized by a burgeoning interest in new concepts of individual and social well-being. The impetus for this new research has stemmed from increased demand from policy makers and civil society for measures of progress that go beyond the traditional measures of GDP, as well as improved datasets allowing individuals and households to be tracked over their life course. The aim of this Handbook is to chart these developments and provide extensive surveys of many of the recent themes that have emerged in the research literature. Some of the topics addressed include poverty. relative deprivation and satisfaction, economic insecurity, social exclusion and inequality, income and social polarization, and social fractionalization and diversity. Each topic is first analyzed from a theoretical perspective, followed by detailed empirical discussion.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Mar 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781953716
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Economics 2018
Cover Sick of Inequality?
Sick of Inequality?
An Introduction to the Relationship between Inequality and Health
Andreas Bergh
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Therese Nilsson
, and
Daniel Waldenström
There is a clear trend in rich countries that despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health. It provides the reader with a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge required to understand and assess the issue. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Aug 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364211
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Economics 2016
Cover What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations?
What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations?
Editor:
Edward N. Wolff
The contributors to this volume investigate to what extent welfare has increased in the United States over the postwar period and provide a rigorous examination of both conventional measures of the standard of living, as well as more inclusive indices. The chapters cover such topics as: race, home ownership and family structure; the status of children; the consumer price index; a historical perspective on the standard of living; worker rights and labor strength in advanced economies. In addition, they explore two economic systems delivering the goods – the free enterprise system of the United States and the European social welfare state. They then present international comparisons and highlight the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two systems.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 May 2004
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781845420529
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Economics 2010 and before