to this situation is a mixture of passive adaptation to the declining living standards and incomes as well as some active strategies, the most often being education and irregular job migration. - (BJ)
Poland being a EU's periphery has its own peripheries. These are Eastern regions which, in turn, also have their centres and peripheries. The latter - rural areas far from urban centres, can be called peripheral peripheries. Living ways
socio-economic differentiation implying impoverishment of a considerable part of the local population. Reactions of inhabitants to this situation is a mixture of passive adaptation to the declining living standards and incomes as well as some active
strategies, the most often being education and irregular incomes, economic and social instability and security, growing socio-economic differentiation implying impoverishment of a considerable part of the local population. Reactions of inhabitants
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Australia ; Post-modernism ; Regional disparities ; Regional policy ; Social indicators ; Social structure ; Wage inequality ; Well-being
Several researchers have argued that Australia is becoming more unequal. The paper explores the reasons why this might be the case before undertaking a social indicator based exmination of whether income inequality extends to well-being generally