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The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy 福祉指标的使用及其对决策的影响：苏格兰和意大利开发者和用户的观点

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13084

Fabio Battaglia

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Practising Resilience: Lived Experience, Agency and Responses to the Cost‐of‐Living Crisis 实践复原力：生活费用危机的生活经验、机构和应对措施

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13079

Kirstie Hewlett, Rod Dacombe, Tianne Haggar, Hannah Piggott, Marta Wojciechowska, Suzanne Hall

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Profiles Among Women Without a Paid Job and Social Benefits: An Intersectional Perspective Using Dutch Population Register Data 没有有偿工作和社会福利的女性概况：利用荷兰人口登记数据的交叉视角

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13080

Lea Kröner, Deni Mazrekaj, Tanja van der Lippe, Anne‐Rigt Poortman

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No welfare without workfare? Revisiting varieties of minimum income schemes in Europe (2008–2022) 没有工作福利就没有福利？重新审视欧洲各种最低收入计划（2008-2022 年）

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13077

Llorenç Soler‐Buades

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Means‐Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well‐Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover? 经济情况调查福利和主观幸福感的时间变化：受助人的生活满意度会恢复吗？

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13078

Anton Nivorozhkin, Markus Promberger

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Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people 生活在经济无保障中：分析生活费用危机对少数民族老年人的影响

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13074

Camilla Lewis, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson

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Work inclusion of marginalised groups in a troubled city district—How can active labour market policies improve? 问题城区边缘群体的工作融入--积极劳动力市场政策如何改进？

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13058

Kjetil Frøyland, Helen Bull, Lisebet Skeie Skarpaas, Gerd Berget, Øystein Spjelkavik, June Ullevoldsæter Lystad

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Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy 应对困难和气候变化：公民对生活成本、社会不平等和政策优先事项的看法

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13071

Sarah Irwin

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Corporations and the cost of living crisis: Corporate involvement in UK food charity 企业与生活成本危机：企业参与英国食品慈善事业

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13066

Hannah Lambie‐Mumford, Kelli Kennedy

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A nation in crisis: Division, conflict and capitalism in the United Kingdom. By NevilleKirk, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2024. £21.99. ISBN: 9781350374508 (pbk) 危机中的国家：英国的分裂、冲突与资本主义》。内维尔-柯克著，伦敦：布鲁姆斯伯里学术出版社。2024.£21.99.ISBN: 9781350374508 (pbk)

IF 3.2 2区社会学

Social Policy & Administration Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/spol.13069

Mick Carpenter

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