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How to Assess Livelihoods? Critical Reflections on the Use of Common Indicators to Capture Socioeconomic Outcomes for Ecological Restoration workers in South Africa 如何评估生计？对使用通用指标捕捉南非生态恢复工作者的社会经济成果的批判性思考

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03433-5

M. Pasgaard, N. Fold

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Quantifying Turbulence: Introducing a Multi-crises Impact Index for Lebanon 量化动荡：为黎巴嫩引入多重危机影响指数

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03426-4

Oussama Abi Younes, Leila Dagher, Ibrahim Jamali, Paul Makdissi

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A Machine Learning Approach to Well-Being in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: The Children’s Worlds Data Case 儿童晚期和青少年早期福祉的机器学习方法：儿童世界数据案例

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Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03429-1

Mònica González-Carrasco, Silvana Aciar, Ferran Casas, Xavier Oriol, Ramon Fabregat, Sara Malo

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Where You Sit Is Where You Stand: Perceived (In)Equality and Demand for Democracy in Africa 你坐在哪里，你就站在哪里：非洲的（不）平等感与民主需求

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03409-5

Thomas Isbell

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SDG Impact Index with Double Materiality Perspective: Evidence from OECD Commercial Bank Industry 双重物质性视角下的可持续发展目标影响指数：经合组织商业银行业的证据

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03421-9

Guler Aras, Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna, Evrim Hacioglu Kazak

{"title":"SDG Impact Index with Double Materiality Perspective: Evidence from OECD Commercial Bank Industry","authors":"Guler Aras, Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna, Evrim Hacioglu Kazak","doi":"10.1007/s11205-024-03421-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03421-9","url":null,"abstract":"The soundness and healthy functioning of financial institutions that contribute to sustainable development by channeling savings into investments has a direct impact on the economy as a whole. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be achieved without the strong support of the financial services industry. The novelty of this study is that it investigates the SDGs with ESG indicators through a double materiality perspective for 1888 companies from the OECD financial institutions. This study shows how commercial banks can identify and prioritize the SDGs and targets and how sustainable practices at the corporate level can contribute to achieving these global goals by adopting a sound methodological approach. The empirical results indicate a significant variation between three perspectives including financial materiality, double materiality, and double materiality with fuzzy logic and some of the SASB issues and GRI issues are more material to a particular SDG than others. There are few studies that focus on developing such a multi-perspective methodology, and this study further contributes to the existing knowledge by shedding light on the SDG Impact Index of commercial banks’ with double materiality perspective. In this context, this paper aims to explore the impact of material issues for the OECD financial services industry to achieve the 2030 Agenda’s goal of leaving no one behind.","PeriodicalId":21943,"journal":{"name":"Social Indicators Research","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Pension System on Income Inequality: USA, UK, Netherlands, Italy and Türkiye 养老金制度对收入不平等影响的评估：美国、英国、荷兰、意大利和土耳其

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03417-5

Can Verberi, Muhittin Kaplan

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Exploring Domains of Quality-of-Life with Vulnerable Young People in Bogotá: A Capability Approach Perspective 探索波哥大弱势青少年的生活质量领域：能力方法视角

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03414-8

Juan Fernando Bucheli

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Economic Disparities, Life Events, and the Gender Mental Health Gap 经济差距、生活事件和性别心理健康差距

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03424-6

Thi Thao Nguyen, Kim Huong Nguyen, Nicholas Rohde

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Are Cities Decisive for Life Satisfaction? A Structural Equation Model for the European Population 城市对生活满意度有决定性影响吗？欧洲人口的结构方程模型

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03423-7

Catalina Nicolás-Martínez, María Concepción Pérez-Cárceles, Prudencio José Riquelme-Perea, Carmen María Verde-Martín

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Flexibility Stigma Across Europe: How National Contexts can Shift the Extent to which Flexible Workers are Stigmatised 欧洲各国对弹性工作的鄙视：各国国情如何改变弹性工作被鄙视的程度

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-024-03420-w

Heejung Chung, Hyojin Seo

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