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Christos Nicolaides - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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rationing Social contact during the covid 19 pandemic transmission risk and Social Benefits of us locations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020Co-Authors: Seth G Benzell, Avinash Collis, Christos NicolaidesAbstract:To prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), some types of public spaces have been shut down while others remain open. These decisions constitute a judgment about the relative danger and Benefits of those locations. Using mobility data from a large sample of smartphones, nationally representative consumer preference surveys, and economic statistics, we measure the relative transmission reduction benefit and Social cost of closing 26 categories of US locations. Our categories include types of shops, entertainments, and service providers. We rank categories by their trade-off of Social Benefits and transmission risk via dominance across 13 dimensions of risk and importance and through composite indexes. We find that, from February to March 2020, there were larger declines in visits to locations that our measures indicate should be closed first.
Susanne K. Schmidt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Welfare migration? Free movement of EU citizens and access to Social Benefits
2015Co-Authors: Michael Blauberger, Susanne K. SchmidtAbstract:This article analyzes the political impact of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) case law concerning the free movement of EU citizens and their cross-border access to Social Benefits. Public debates about ‘welfare migration’ or ‘Social tourism’ often fluctuate between populist hysteria and outright denial, but they obscure the real political and legal issues at stake: that ECJ jurisprudence incrementally broadens EU citizens’ opportunities to claim Social Benefits abroad while narrowing member states’ scope to regulate and restrict access to national welfare systems. We argue that legal uncertainty challenges national administrations in terms of workload and rule-of-law standards, while domestic legislative reforms increasingly shift the burden of legal uncertainty to EU migrants by raising evidentiary requirements and threatening economically inactive EU citizens with expulsion. We illustrate this argument first with a brief overview of the EU’s legal framework, highlighting the ambiguity of core concepts from the Court’s case law, and then with empirical evidence from the UK, Germany and Austria, analyzing similar domestic responses to the ECJ’s jurisprudence. We conclude that EU citizenship law, while promising to build the union from below on the basis of equal legal entitlements, may, in fact, risk rousing further nationalism and decrease solidarity across the union.
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Welfare migration? Free movement of EU citizens and access to Social Benefits:
Research & Politics, 2014Co-Authors: Michael Blauberger, Susanne K. SchmidtAbstract:This article analyzes the political impact of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) case law concerning the free movement of EU citizens and their cross-border access to Social Benefits. Public debates about ‘welfare migration’ or ‘Social tourism’ often fluctuate between populist hysteria and outright denial, but they obscure the real political and legal issues at stake: that ECJ jurisprudence incrementally broadens EU citizens’ opportunities to claim Social Benefits abroad while narrowing member states’ scope to regulate and restrict access to national welfare systems. We argue that legal uncertainty challenges national administrations in terms of workload and rule-of-law standards, while domestic legislative reforms increasingly shift the burden of legal uncertainty to EU migrants by raising evidentiary requirements and threatening economically inactive EU citizens with expulsion. We illustrate this argument first with a brief overview of the EU’s legal framework, highlighting the ambiguity of core conc...
Isabel Shutes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gender and free movement: EU migrant women’s access to residence and Social rights in the U.K.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Isabel Shutes, Sarah WalkerAbstract:This article examines the gendered effects of restricting EU migrants’ access to rights to residence and to Social Benefits in relation to work, self-sufficiency and family. It draws on the findings of qualitative research on EU migrant women’s access to Social Benefits in the U.K. on the basis of residence rights as an EU citizen-worker or family member of an EU citizen-worker. The research included qualitative interviews with providers of advice services on Social Benefits claims and with EU migrant women in the U.K. The findings point to the ways in which the status of the EU citizen-worker is defined and implemented limits women’s access to and ability to maintain that status and, at the same time, their reliance on the status of family member of an EU citizen-worker. Both have gendered effects in terms of women’s potential exclusion from access to residence and Social rights as mobile EU citizens.
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Work-related conditionality and the access to Social Benefits of national citizens, EU and non-EU citizens
Journal of Social Policy, 2016Co-Authors: Isabel ShutesAbstract:This article contributes to an understanding of how conditionality applies across Social security and immigration policies in restricting the access to Social Benefits of national citizens, EU and non-EU citizens. Specifically, the article builds on Clasen and Clegg’s (2007) framework of conditionality in the context of welfare state reform by extending that conceptual framework to include migration. The framework is applied to examine how different levels of conditionality have been implemented in UK policy reforms to restrict access to rights of residence and to Social Benefits. It is argued that a conditionality approach moves beyond a binary of citizens and migrants in Social policy analysis, contributing to an understanding of the dynamics and interactions of work-related conditions in restricting access to Social Benefits, with implications for inequalities that cut across national, EU and non-EU citizens in terms of the relationship of particular groups to the market.
Thomas J Kazmierowski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sustainable pavements environmental economic and Social Benefits of in situ pavement recycling
Transportation Research Record, 2008Co-Authors: Andrew Alkins, Becca Lane, Thomas J KazmierowskiAbstract:The Ministry of Transportation Ontario, Canada, is committed to using technologies to help build a more sustainable transportation system that supports today's needs while protecting the environment for future generations. Cold in-place recycling (CIR) is an established pavement rehabilitation technology that processes an existing asphalt pavement, sizes it, mixes in additional asphalt cement, and lays it back down without offsite hauling and processing. The added asphalt cement is typically emulsified asphalt. A recent development in CIR technology is the use of expanded (foamed) asphalt, rather than emulsified asphalt, to bind the mix. This combination of CIR and expanded asphalt technologies is termed cold in-place recycled expanded asphalt mix (CIREAM). Both CIR and CIREAM technologies support the philosophy of a sustainable transportation system. More specifically, CIR and CIREAM meet the criteria for a sustainable pavement: safe, efficient, economic, environmentally friendly pavement that meets the ...
Seth G Benzell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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rationing Social contact during the covid 19 pandemic transmission risk and Social Benefits of us locations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020Co-Authors: Seth G Benzell, Avinash Collis, Christos NicolaidesAbstract:To prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), some types of public spaces have been shut down while others remain open. These decisions constitute a judgment about the relative danger and Benefits of those locations. Using mobility data from a large sample of smartphones, nationally representative consumer preference surveys, and economic statistics, we measure the relative transmission reduction benefit and Social cost of closing 26 categories of US locations. Our categories include types of shops, entertainments, and service providers. We rank categories by their trade-off of Social Benefits and transmission risk via dominance across 13 dimensions of risk and importance and through composite indexes. We find that, from February to March 2020, there were larger declines in visits to locations that our measures indicate should be closed first.
