Disability in Contexts of Displacement

Job Displacement, Disability, and Divorce

This paper examines how job displacement and physical disability suffered by a spouse affects the probability that the person’s marriage ends in divorce. According to the standard economic model of marriage, the arrival of new information about a partner’s earning capacity that an earnings shock conveys might affect the gains that the couple believes it will receive from remaining married. Shoc...

Natural disasters and rural displacement: contexts and consequences in Balouch Abad village

The aim of this study is to understand the perception of the residents of Baloch Abad village about the causes and consequences of residential displacement using a critical ethnographic approach. This approach is suitable for studying phenomena such as residential relocation, which are the result of the decisions of the planning system and in most cases is faced with the unwillingness and lack ...

Measuring the Potential for Mass Displacement in Menacing Contexts

JEFF COLLMANN Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA JANE BLAKE Booz Allen Hamilton, Arlington, VA, USA DAV ID BR IDGELAND Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA LARA K INNE Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA NIL I SAR IT YOSS INGER Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA ROB IN DILLON Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA SUSAN MART IN Georgetown University, Washington,...

Disability and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts

Disability and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts