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Like parent, like child? : The role of resources and life events from an intergenerational perspective
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-02-19)
Intergenerational transmission occurs in most aspects of life, influencing our life events and future achievements. This dissertation examines how different resources and life events are related to the individual’s outcomes ...
Ideas, institutions, and the politics of social policy reforms
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-11-12)
Welfare state research has demonstrated that ideas and institutions can influence the paths and politics of welfare state expansion and retrenchment. This dissertation investigates the role of political decision-making in ...
Becoming workers: How young women negotiate their imagined futures in the Finnish work society
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-01-13)
This study examines how young women at the threshold between post-compulsory education and the labour market become workers and imagine their futures in the Finnish work society. More specifically, the study investigates ...
Public attitudes on climate policy instruments: A comparative perspective in Europe
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-10-06)
The topic of this dissertation is to examine the influential factors on citizens’ climate policy attitudes from the comparative perspective. The study is based on four articles published between 2020 and 2023. The research ...
Long-term changes in the consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods: Exploring the roles of age, birth cohort, socioeconomic status, and gender
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-05-26)
Food habits significantly influence the risks of several non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and memory disorders. NCDs cause heavy burdens on society in the form of human ...
Lasten ja nuorten elämäntyytyväisyys koetun köyhyyden ja materiaalisen puutteen kontekstissa
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-05-12)
Tutkimus käsittelee suomalaisten lasten ja nuorten elämäntyytyväisyyttä sekä siihen yhteydessä olevia tekijöitä erityisesti köyhyyskokemusten ja materiaalisen puutteen kontekstissa. Yhteyttä tarkastellaan lasten arjessa ...
What is needed at the acceptable minimum? : Studies on the operationalisation of the concept of poverty
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-09-01)
This dissertation focuses on the operationalisation of the concept of poverty. It analyses the capacity of the consensual deprivation indicator and reference budgets (RBs) in establishing the minimum acceptable living ...
The Role of trade unions and economic globalization in contemporary social policy
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-09-29)
Trade unions in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have traditionally supported the expansion of social policies to protect wage-earners against various risks associated with the ...
Welfare technologies in Finland: An ethico-politics of hype, hope and experimentation
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-12-16)
In the past decade, the Finnish government has been eager to enable and support the development, implementation and growing business of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence—that is, welfare technologies in ...
Digitaaliset informaatiotaidot ja digitaalinen eriarvoisuus
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-01-26)
Tiedonhaku ja tiedonhallinta ovat olennainen osa jokapäiväistä elämää nykyajan informaatioyhteiskunnassa. Taitoja löytää, arvioida ja järjestää digitaalista informaatiota tarvitaan niin työelämässä, opiskelussa kuin ...