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This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics, and kinship related households. Does this lead to the conclusion that land inequality is due to flows of land between households being impeded by social divisions? To answer this question, a novel methodology that approaches exhaustive data on dyadic flows from an aggregate point of view is introduced. Land transfers lead to a more equal distribution of land and to more comparable factor ratios across households in general. But equalizing transfers of land are not more likely within ethnic or kinship groups. In conclusion, ethnic and kinship divisions do not hinder land and labor transfers in a way that contributes to aggregate factor inequality. Labor transfers do not equilibrate factor ratios across households. But it cannot be ruled out that they serve a beneficial role, e.g., to deal with unanticipated health shocks.

Allocative Efficiency --- Communities and Human Settlements --- Culture and Development --- Factor Markets --- Indigenous Peoples --- Inequality --- Land Markets --- Poverty Reduction --- Social Division --- Social Networks

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Promoting and preserving social cohesion has become a central challenge for European societies. Based on contributions from the first trinational conference of DGSA, OGSA and SGSA, this book addresses both the meaning of social cohesion for individuals and societies and the question of how social work can contribute to promoting and preserving social cohesion as the basis of liberal democratic societies. Soziale Kohäsion zu fördern und zu bewahren ist eine zentrale Herausforderung europäischer Gesellschaften. Basierend auf Beiträgen der ersten trinationalen Tagung von DGSA, OGSA und SGSA wird in diesem Sammelband thematisiert, welche Bedeutungen soziale Kohäsion für Individuen und Gesellschaften hat und wie Soziale Arbeit dazu beitragen kann, soziale Kohäsion als Grundlage freiheitlich demokratischer Gesellschaften zu fördern und zu bewahren.

Social work --- DACH region;DACH-Region;DGSA;divisions of societies;fields of action of social work;gesellschaftliche Spaltung;gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt;Handlungsfelder Sozialer Arbeit;OGSA;SGSA;social coherence;social cohesion;social division;social work and Covid 19;social work in the pandemic;solidarische Gesellschaft;solidarity;Solidarität;solidary society;Soziale Arbeit in der Pandemie;Soziale Arbeit und Covid 19;Soziale Kohäsion;Spaltungen von Gesellschaften

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Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the state of Jalisco, this book documents the routes uninsured Mexican patients take in order to access resource intensive biotechnical treatments, that is, different modes of dialysis and organ transplantation. It argues that these routes are normalized, bureaucratically, socially and epidemiologically, and turned into a locus for exploitation and profit. Without a coherent logic of healthcare access, negotiating regimes of renal care has catastrophic consequences for those with the least resources to expend in that effort. In carrying both the costs and the burden of care, the practices of patients without entitlement offer a critical vantage point on the interplay between the state, markets in healthcare and the sick body.

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