International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 42 Issue 13/14

Information matters: attitude towards organ donation in a general university population web-survey in Italy

Marco Terraneo, Alessandra Caserini

Transplantation extends and improves lives, but the shortage of organs is one of the main factors limiting the number of transplants in Italy, as well as in other countries. This…

Framing digital competence in media work – The case of Finland

Anne Parkatti, Tiina Saari, Mia Tammelin, Mikko Villi

This article aims to study digital competence (DC) in media work.

Fairness perceptions regarding in-work benefits: a survey experiment

Monika Senghaas, Christopher Osiander, Gesine Stephan, Olaf Struck

In many countries, individuals can receive welfare support whilst simultaneously being employed. The level of earned income that welfare recipients are allowed to keep has long…

Financial support for households and the demand for child protection services – a municipality-level analysis of income support for single-parent households and reimbursements for depression medicines

Laura Häkkilä, Piia Seppälä, Juulia Hietamäki, Timo Toikko

The study covers two different forms of financial support for households, income support for single parents and reimbursements for depression medicines, and explores their…

Young retail shift workers (not) planning their future: working with customers in the 24/7 service society in the transition to adulthood

Annalisa Dordoni

The retail sector is not largely studied in Italy. The study offers a comparison between youth retail shift work in Milan and London. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the…

LGBT tourist decision-making and behaviours. A study of Millennial Italian tourists

Salvatore Monaco

Sociological researches about tourism of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are growing in number. These studies are carried out mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries…

Linking active labour market policies to digitalisation–a review between remote and automated possibilities

Gianluca Scarano, Barry Colfer

The purpose of this article is to develop a conceptual framework that sets out the linkages that exist between digitalisation and active labour market policies (ALMPs).

Academic research output on social capital: a bibliometric and visualization analysis

Marco Carradore

This study describes and analyzes the output of academic research on the topic of social capital. The concept of social capital has attracted the interest of scholars from a range…