scholarly journals Tradisjonelle organisasjoner og nye frivillige initiativ i flyktningsituasjonen høsten 2015. Mobilisering eller forsterkning av eksisterende skiller?

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-150
Author(s):  
Audun Fladmoe
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Low Educated ◽  
Voluntary Initiatives

This chapter studies voluntary contributions in Norway during the refugee crisis in 2015. Due to increased asylum arrivals, the public reception centers were overloaded and there was an urgent need for assistance from civil society actors. In addition to contributions from traditional voluntary organizations, a number of new voluntary initiatives were established. This makes the migration crisis a unique case for studying new forms of engagement: Did the migration crisis mobilize new groups of volunteers, or did the situation rather reinforce existing cleavages between volunteers and non-volunteers? Based on survey panel data carried out before (2014) and after (2016) the migration crisis we analyze cleavages between volunteers and non-volunteers related to variations in sociodemographic background and political party preferences. The results show indications of both mobilization and reinforcement of existing cleavages, but in the long run existing cleavages seems to be preserved. Compared to the traditional organizations, new voluntary initiatives recruited more contributions from the young, low educated and low-income groups, but the number of ‘new’ volunteers was limited – the majority of those who contributed had previous experience as organizational volunteers. Furthermore, we find few indications that involvement during the migration crisis contributed to increased participation in traditional voluntary work a year later. Thus, the results suggest that, in the context of the migration crisis, we observed a short-term mobilization of some new groups, but in the longer run, the voluntary sector is characterized by established cleavages between volunteers and non-volunteers.

Does Lottery Advertising Exploit Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Markets?

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary O. Borg ◽  
Harriet A. Stranahan
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Income Group ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Public ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Middle Income Group ◽  
Low Income Groups

Abstract:Is it unethical to advertise lotteries? Many citizens think that states should not be actively promoting and encouraging the public to spend hard-earned dollars on a bet that they are virtually guaranteed to lose. Perhaps more importantly, business ethicists are concerned that lottery advertising may be targeting the most vulnerable markets: households with the lowest income and education levels. If this were true, then it would increase the already disproportionately large burden of lottery taxes on the poor. Fortunately, our research finds no evidence to support the contention that advertising is responsible for high rates of lottery participation and expenditures by lower income groups or that low-income groups are more affected by advertising than high-income groups. On the contrary, awareness of lottery advertising seems to be associated with a higher probability to play Lotto only for the middle income group. This means that lottery advertising may actually reduce the regressivity of lottery taxes.

Determinants of household financial vulnerability in Malaysia and its effect on low-income groups

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Abidullah Abid ◽  
Muhammad Hakimi Mohd Shafiai
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Financial Vulnerability ◽  
Financial Shocks ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Autoregressive Distributed Lag ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Low Income Groups

Household financial vulnerability is an important area of research in household economic studies. Hence, a number of studies have attempted to identify the factors that make households vulnerable to financial shocks. In Malaysia, the research is scant on this topic especially when it comes to low-income households. Therefore, the study aims to identify the macroeconomic factors that make the household vulnerable to financial shocks. For this purpose, the study uses the autoregressive distributed lag modelling approach as an estimation technique. The results revealed that household debt, prices of goods, interest rate and unemployment have a positive long-run relationship with household financial vulnerability while income has a negative relationship. Further analysis confirms that these predictors of financial vulnerability also affect the low-income groups. This study would be of interest to the academicians and policy makers in the area of household economics.

Planetary gentrification and urban (re)development

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta Lees
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

Abstract Gentrification is no-longer, if it ever was, a small scale process of urban transformation. Gentrification globally is more often practised as large scale urban redevelopment. It is state-led or state-induced. The results are clear – the displacement and disenfranchisement of low income groups in favour of wealthier in-movers. So, why has gentrification come to dominate policy making worldwide and what can be done about it?

New Trends in Interaction of Developed and Developing Countries in Innovation Sphere

2012 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
A. Eroshkin ◽  
M. Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Adaptive Nature

The economic and innovative rise of the developing states stimulated a deep restructuring of the existing system of international relations in science and technology sphere. As the article points, one of the main manifestations of this trend can be seen in the transformation of global innovation strategies of transnational corporations. The world’s largest TNCs, mostly based in the industrial nations, have begun to transfer growing segments and parts of their R&D programs to the developing countries in order to take advantage of their increased research capacity. As a result, the nature of the projects being implemented there by the TNCs is changing. Historically, the TNCs’ local R&D activities were of adaptive nature. Namely, the stress was made on modification of the products and services offered by the TNCS globally to the specifics of local markets. Currently, a growing number of transnational corporations are implementing the large-scale programs in the developing countries aimed at designing new types of products, including those targeted at the low-income groups of consumers that make up the bulk of the population in developing countries.

scholarly journals A 32 Year old Female with Recurrent Chest Infections with Dizziness

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-156
Author(s):  
Sakib Aman ◽  
Palash Kumar Biswas ◽  
Forhad Uddin Hasan Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Septal Defect ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Septal Defect ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) is associated with repeated chest infections. Repeated chest infections, in turn, can lead to bronchiectasis and vice versa. In this case a 32 year old female presented to us with repeated chest infections. Upon thorough examination and investigation, she was found to have both ASD along with bronchiectasis. It also shows the devastating consequences of having two serious illnesses can have on a patients life, specially in low income groups. J MEDICINE 2021; 22: 155-156

scholarly journals ZINC NUTRITION IN CHILEAN PREGNAT TEENAGERS OF LOW INCOME GROUPS

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-823
Author(s):  
Vb Martin ◽  
Cd Castillo ◽  
V Gattás ◽  
F Castillo ◽  
M González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Zinc Nutrition

The Mode Choice of the Residents in Suburban Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 1030-1032 ◽  
pp. 2459-2462
Author(s):  
Hang Luo ◽  
Yun Hong Shao ◽  
Bi Jie Ding ◽  
Shu Yue Wu
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mode Selection ◽  
Land Development ◽  
High Income ◽  
Suburban Area ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

In recent years, with the expansion of urban space in China, large-scale land development and commodity residential construction lead to urban land expanding continuously, the residents especially low-income groups in suburban area face more problems, such as commuting costs increase, transportation accessibility reduce. The purpose of this paper is to compare and analyze the travel choices between high-income and low-income residents in suburban area, using the structural equation modeling to analyze how the social and economic attributes, public transport accessibility and commuting time influence on traffic mode selection, and contribute to public transportation development for low-income group in suburban area. The result of the research shows influence of different factors involving the traffic mode selection between low-income groups and high-income groups.

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