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Strong leadership and local democracy: rivals or potential allies? (2012)
Book Chapter
Rao, N., Bergstrom, T., & Gianolli, A. (2012). Strong leadership and local democracy: rivals or potential allies?. In L. Schaap, & H. Daemen (Eds.), Renewal in European Democracies: Puzzles, Dilemmas and Options (119-144). VS Verlaf fur Sozialwissenschaft

Migration and global environmental change (2011)
Journal Article
Black, R., Adger, W. N., Arnell, N. W., Dercon, S., Geddes, A., & Thomas, D. (2011). Migration and global environmental change. Global Environmental Change, 21(1), S1-S2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.10.005

The influence of the environment and environmental change is largely unrepresented in standard theories of migration, whilst recent debates on climate change and migration focus almost entirely on displacement and perceive migration to be a problem.... Read More about Migration and global environmental change.

Poverty, migration and human well-being: towards a post-crisis research and policy agenda (2011)
Journal Article
Wright, K., & Black, R. (2011). Poverty, migration and human well-being: towards a post-crisis research and policy agenda. Journal of International Development, 23(4), 548-554. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1791

This policy arena investigates the impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis on poverty, migration and human well-being. It uses a human well-being lens to provide a framework for conceptualising a range of impacts that crosscut material and psycho... Read More about Poverty, migration and human well-being: towards a post-crisis research and policy agenda.

International migration and the downturn: assessing the impacts of the global financial downturn on migration, poverty and human well-being (2011)
Journal Article
Wright, K., & Black, R. (2011). International migration and the downturn: assessing the impacts of the global financial downturn on migration, poverty and human well-being. Journal of International Development, 23(4), 555-564. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1792

This paper provides a conceptual overview of the impacts of the 2008 global financial downturn in the context of international migration and presents some initial evidence from the wider development literature. A human well-being approach is proposed... Read More about International migration and the downturn: assessing the impacts of the global financial downturn on migration, poverty and human well-being.

Disciplinary disjunctures in the transition from secondary school to higher education study of foreign languages: A case study from the UK (2011)
Journal Article
Gallagher-Brett, A., & Canning, J. (2011). Disciplinary disjunctures in the transition from secondary school to higher education study of foreign languages: A case study from the UK. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 10(2), 171-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022210393911

Discussions of student transition from the study of languages in UK high schools to the study of languages at university usually focus on the vertical transition, comparing the differences in curricula and approach to languages taken in each sector.... Read More about Disciplinary disjunctures in the transition from secondary school to higher education study of foreign languages: A case study from the UK.

Adolescents’ understanding of poverty and the poor in rural Malaysia (2011)
Journal Article
Halik, M. H., & Webley, P. (2011). Adolescents’ understanding of poverty and the poor in rural Malaysia. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(2), 231-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2009.02.006

The aim of this research was to explore Malaysian adolescents’ perception of poverty and the poor. The data consisted of 79 semi-structured interviews with school children aged 12–13 and 15–16 years old from rural and urban areas in Sabah, Malaysia.... Read More about Adolescents’ understanding of poverty and the poor in rural Malaysia.

A Continent Moving West? EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe (2010)
Book
Black, R., Pantiru, M. C., Engbersen, G., & Okolski, M. (2010). A Continent Moving West? EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048510979

A Continent Moving West? argues that the conceptualization of migration as a one-way or long-term process is becoming increasingly wide of the mark. Rather, east-west labor migration in Europe, in common perhaps with other flows in and from other par... Read More about A Continent Moving West? EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe.

The economic psychology of value added tax compliance (2010)
Book Chapter
Webley, P., & Ashby, J. S. (2010). The economic psychology of value added tax compliance. In J. Alm, J. Martinez-Vazquez, & B. Torgler (Eds.), Developing Alternative Frameworks for Explaining Tax Compliance. Routledge

VAT is a tax on consumer expenditure, collected on business transactions and assessed on the value added to goods and services. It applies, with some exceptions (for example, to young children’s clothes and shoes in the UK), to all goods and services... Read More about The economic psychology of value added tax compliance.

Introduction: Working out a way from East to West: EU enlargement and labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe (2010)
Book Chapter
Engbersen, G., Okolski, M., Black, R., & Pantiru, M. C. (2010). Introduction: Working out a way from East to West: EU enlargement and labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe. In R. Black, G. Engbersen, M. Okolski, & M. C. Pantiru (Eds.), A Continent Moving West? EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe (7-22). Amsterdam University Press