International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 39 Issue 7/8

Precarity in Russia: attitudes, work and life experience of young adults with higher education

Elena Gasiukova, Sergey Korotaev

The purpose of this paper is to show how young educated adults in the state of precarity perceive the lack of stability in their employment, life and prospects, and what…

Conceptualizing professional and public interest in the context of Turkey’s health care reforms

Tuba I. Agartan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate physicians’ response to reforms in Turkey on the basis of their experience of the changes in the daily work environment. It aims to…

Geographic inequality and ethnic stratification in China, 2000 to 2010

Danielle Xiaodan Morales

The purpose of this paper is to extend current knowledge by focusing on three geographic factors (minority-Han residential segregation, rural-urban disparities and regional…

“Same same, but different”: A baseline study on the vulnerabilities of transgender sex workers in the sex industry in Bangkok, Thailand

Jarrett D. Davis, Glenn Michael Miles, John H. Quinley III

This paper is a part of a series of papers seeking insight into a holistic perspective into the lives, experiences and vulnerabilities of male-to-female transgender persons (from…

Job uncertainty and leaving the parental home in Italy: Longitudinal analysis of the effect of labour market insecurity on the propensity to leave the parental household among youth

Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Goglio

The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether and to what extent the labour market situation of young Italians affects their chances of exiting the parental home…

Workers’ willingness to delay retirement in exchange for temporary paid leaves: A case study in a Spanish town

Alfredo Alfageme, Begoña García-Pastor, Salvador Seguí-Cosme

The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors influencing the willingness to benefit from temporary leave (TL), a life-course policy consisting of the entitlement to…

The state of child labor protections in 193 countries: Are countries living up to their international commitments?

Nicolas de Guzman Chorny, Amy Raub, Alison Earle, Jody Heymann

Nearly every country has committed to protect children from work that could be harmful or interfere with their education by ratifying the International Labour Organization Minimum…

Moving beyond the first response phenomenon: Exploring carers’ views and experiences of being involved in research and development work

Camilla Malm, Stefan Andersson, Håkan Jönson, Lennart Magnusson, Elizabeth Hanson

In Sweden, the care of older people and people with disabilities is increasingly carried out by informal carers, often family members, who are unpaid and outside a professional or…

Influence of interpersonal and institutional trusts on welfare state support revisited: Evidence from 27 post-communist nations

Nazim Habibov, Alena Auchynnikava, Rong Luo, Lida Fan

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the effects of interpersonal and institutional trust on welfare state support in the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet…