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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for...

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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values

Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

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The Divorced and Who Divorces?

Kiernan, Kathleen; Mueller, Ganka - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

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Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employmentafter Childbirth: Evidence from the United States,Britain, and Japan

Waldfogel, Jane; Higuchi, Yoshio; Abe, Masahiro - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on … women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United … States had no national family leave legislationprior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, but …

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East Enders: Family and community in East London

Mumford, Katharine; Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

East Enders tells the story of a hundred families who live in two of the lowestincome areas in the East End of London, Hackney and Newham. The East Endhas the biggest concentration of poverty in the capital. It lies at the heart of theThames Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the...

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Understanding Social Exclusion

Hills, John; Le Grand, Julian; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

, intergenerational and family links indisadvantage, the labour market, deprived neighbourhoods, and the impact ofwelfare policy … - individual, family, community, national and global.[...] …

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Talking to Families in Leeds and Sheffield

Bowman, Helen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in Leeds. Kirkside East is a large,mainly white, council estate in Leeds. The Valley is a mixed tenure, mixedincome, ethnically diverse area, stretching out of Sheffield city...

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Talking to Families in East London

Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Katharine Mumford reports on her first round of interviews with 100 familiesliving in two East London neighbourhoods. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families, and to uncover the significance of area conditions...

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The State of Welfare

Glennerster, Howard; Hills, J. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

Reform of the welfare state is at the centre of political debate. In a new book, CASEmembers analyse changes in social policies over the last twenty-five years, trends inspending, outcomes of policies, and impacts on institutions and families.The stereotypes of both left and right are wrong....

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An Anatomy of EconomicInequality in the UK

Hills, John; Brewer, Mike; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Lister, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...

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