International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 35 Issue 11/12

Does migration make financial sense? The case of domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan

Nguyen Quynh Phuong, Sundar Venkatesh

Adopting a view that migration is an investment, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the risk-adjusted returns that migrant domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan can…

Social capital and job search behaviour of long-term welfare recipients

Inge Varekamp, Trudie Knijn, Martin van der Gaag, Peter Bos

Long-term welfare recipients in the Netherlands are either long-term unemployed or part-time employed in jobs that generate incomes below the subsistence level. The question is…

Acting on welfare state retrenchment: in-between the private and the public

Mathias Herup Nielsen

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate an unexploited conceptual pragmatic sociological framework for analyses of action strategies among social assistance recipients, who…

Culture, religion and social capital: evidence from European regions

Anneli Kaasa

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible relationship of religion and culture with the social capital in a particular region.

Exploratory insights into the financial habits of CALD migrants: A case study of first and second wave Vietnamese migrants

Riccardo Natoli

The purpose of this paper is to explore the financial habits and experience of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrants via a case study of first and second wave…

Happy ever after in the quasi-market place? The dowry logic of active labour policy in the Lombardy Region

Stefania Sabatinelli, Matteo Villa

The dote system is the most recent and only way to finance and deliver services in the training and labour policy field in Lombardy (Italy), strengthening the regional…

A tale of reverse deviance: non-compliant spatial practices in the land of Gomorrah

Mario Trifuoggi

Being territoriality a distinctive feature of mafia groups, the purpose of this paper is to study how the production of space contributes to the reproduction of such organisations…

Population ageing and economic growth in Japan

Mikiko Oliver

The purpose of this paper is to determine how population ageing is related to economic growth as measured by real GDP per capita in Japan. This study is to address the following…