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Environmental quality is an important determinant of individuals' well-being and one of the main concerns of the governments is the improvement on air quality and the protection of public health. This is especially the case of sensitive demographic groups, such as the old aged people. However,...
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Wal-Mart matters to the form and substance of law and social reform in several distinct ways. This article describes Wal-Mart as serving three key purposes - as target, symbol, and model - in the contemporary social reform landscape. First, Wal-Mart, the largest employer in the United States is...
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Breastfeeding in public has become more accepted, but milk expression—defined as removing milk from the breasts manually or using a breast pump—continues to be seen as a distasteful bodily function analogous to urination or sex, which should be confined to the private sphere. Few states...
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This paper shows an elaborated model to try to stop the spread of COVID-19 cases everywhere and anytime. The main objective of this paper is to implement an alternative COVID-19 prevention model. This new model is entitled “the Free COVID-19 Areas (FCAs).” The FCA offers a serial of steps...
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For over a century, pediatricians, scientists, and industry players have sought to create an infant formula that would be as close as possible to human milk. Until recently, their efforts focused on “humanizing” cow’s milk by making its composition more similar to human milk. But in the...
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Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...
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Very low work intensity and at-risk-of-poverty are two of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the … Europe 2020 poverty and social exclusion reduction target. Their timeliness is critical for tracing the effectiveness of … method of estimating ('nowcasting') very low work intensity and poverty risk using the tax-benefit microsimulation model …
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This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive longitudinal data on working conditions from the European Working Condition Survey with microdata from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). Our...
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inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and EU-SILC based …
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indicators for income inequality and risk of poverty using EUROMOD and discuss the main reasons for differences between these and …
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