16 research outputs found
Inequality of Opportunity and the Probability of Being Very Rich or Very Poor
No full textThis paper models the effects of individuals' background variables on the chances they end up in the extremes of the income distribution. Taking high-quality Australian panel data, we show that factors like the education of one's father have a much stronger impact on belonging to the top 1 per cent than they have on the conditional mean. Similarly, individuals from immigrant families are more likely to belong to both the left and the right tails of income distribution. Identifying the drivers of extreme incomes is important as individuals with very high incomes exert disproportionate political power, while those with very low incomes may drive prejudice and perceptions of disadvantage.Full Tex
Essays on Inequality, Insecurity and Poverty
No full textThis thesis comprises four empirical studies concerned with inequality, problems related to the income distribution and their sociopolitical implications. Two of the research papers focus on the measurement of inequality of opportunity (IOp) in Australia and its implications, while the other two contributions are empirical studies on economic insecurity and income instability in the US context. These four chapters are written in the form of self-contained articles. [...]Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Dept Account,Finance & EconGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Solano Trindade e a poética da resistência: na ausência, a existência
No full textThis article aims to point out some lines of force in the poetry of Solano Trindade (1908-1974), one of the most important figures in Afro-Brazilian poetry. Trindade’s artistic production was concentrated between the 1930’s and 1960’s, period within which the author established himself as a militant in favor of black populations and popular art movements, participating in the Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN) and founding the Teatro Popular Brasileiro (TPB). His poetry was also circumscribed within these two limits of action, managing to fill a gap by recovering the past of Black men and women in Brazil as an act of resistance, affirming the existence of what was socially silenced.Este artigo tem o propósito de apontar algumas linhas de força presentes na poesia do recifense Solano Trindade (1908-1974), uma das figuras mais importantes da poesia afro-brasileira. Sua produção poética concentrou-se entre os anos 1930 e 1960, período em que se estabeleceu entre a militância a favor das populações negras e os movimentos de uma arte popular, participando do Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN) e fundando o Teatro Popular Brasileiro (TPB). Sua poesia também esteve circunscrita a esses dois limites de atuação e consegue preencher uma lacuna: ele vai ao passado dos negros e negras do Brasil como um ato de resistência, dá existência ao que estava silenciado
The woman who dwindled
No full text“a mulher que diminuía” é uma adaptação para curta-metragem de um fragmento da obra “o filho de mil
homens”, do autor português valter hugo mãe. O trecho narra a história de Isaura, uma jovem que
prometida a um casamento precoce, vivencia a descoberta de sua sexualidade. Com a pressão de seu
noivo e de sua família, ela precisa vencer o conflito interno entre perder a virgindade e ganhar o
apreço do rapaz ou seguir a tradição da comunidade e guardar-se para o casamento. O objetivo do
projeto é, por meio da narrativa, incitar uma discussão sobre gênero e sexualidade, abordando as
diferenças da experiência sexual do homem e da mulher dentro dos preceitos patriarcais. Simone de
Beauvoir, Guacira Lopes Louro e Michel Foucault são alguns dos autores levantados para o debate. O
curta é resultado de uma produção de baixo orçamento concentrada em uma única pessoa, a fim de
criar-se uma obra simples e consistente, dotada de uma mensagem significativa."the woman who decreases" is an adaptation for a short film of a fragment of the work "the son of a
thousand men", by the Portuguese author valter hugo mãe. The passage tells the story of Isaura, a
young woman who was promised to an early marriage that leads her to discover her sexuality. With
the pressure from her fiancé and family, she must overcome the internal conflict between losing her
virginity and gaining the boy's appreciation or following the tradition of the community and
preserving herself for marriage. The purpose of the project is to stimulate a discussion about
gender and sexuality, addressing the differences in the sexual experience of men and women within
patriarchal precepts. Simone de Beauvoir, Guacira Lopes Louro and Michel Foucault are some of the
authors raised for the discussion. The short film is the result of a low-budget production focused
on one person with the intencion to create a simple and consistent work with a meaningful message
Under the indistinction, the poetics of Antonio Cicero
No full textAntonio Cicero (1945-2024) foi um poeta que publicou em vida três obras de poesia: Guardar (1996); A cidade e os livros (2002) e Porventura (2012). Além da sua poesia em livro, Cicero também foi o autor de inúmeras letras de canções da música popular brasileira. Este ensaio investiga, a partir de alguns parâmetros traçados pela própria crítica de Antonio Cicero sobre o gênero poesia, como sua obra poética opera algumas reflexões importantes sobre o próprio fazer poético e sobre a cidade, dois tópicos de singular interesse na sua poesia. Antonio Cicero (1945-2024) was a poet who published three works of poetry during his lifetime: Guardar (1996), A cidade e os livros (2002), and Porventura (2012). In addition to his poetry in books, Cicero was also the author of numerous lyrics for songs in Brazilian popular music. This essay investigates, based on some parameters outlined by Antonio Cicero\u27s own criticism of the poetry genre, how his poetic work operates some critical reflections on poetic making itself and on the city, two topics of singular interest in his poetry.Antonio Cicero (1945-2024) fue un poeta que publicó tres obras poéticas durante su vida: Guardar (1996), A cidade e os livros (2002) y Porventura (2012). Además de su poesía publicada, Cicero también escribió numerosas letras para canciones de música popular brasileña. Este ensayo investiga, a partir de los parámetros establecidos por la propia crítica de Antonio Cicero al género poético, cómo su obra poética reflexiona sobre aspectos importantes del proceso poético mismo y sobre la ciudad, dos temas de particular interés en su poesía
Sob a indistinção, a poética de Antonio Cicero
No full textAntonio Cicero (1945-2024) was a poet who published three works of poetry during his lifetime: Guardar (1996), A cidade e os livros (2002), and Porventura (2012). In addition to his poetry in books, Cicero was also the author of numerous lyrics for songs in Brazilian popular music. This essay investigates, based on some parameters outlined by Antonio Cicero's own criticism of the poetry genre, how his poetic work operates some critical reflections on poetic making itself and on the city, two topics of singular interest in his poetry.Antonio Cicero (1945-2024) foi um poeta que publicou em vida três obras de poesia: Guardar (1996); A cidade e os livros (2002) e Porventura (2012). Além da sua poesia em livro, Cicero também foi o autor de inúmeras letras de canções da música popular brasileira. Este ensaio investiga, a partir de alguns parâmetros traçados pela própria crítica de Antonio Cicero sobre o gênero poesia, como sua obra poética opera algumas reflexões importantes sobre o próprio fazer poético e sobre a cidade, dois tópicos de singular interesse na sua poesia. Antonio Cicero (1945-2024) fue un poeta que publicó tres obras poéticas durante su vida: Guardar (1996), A cidade e os livros (2002) y Porventura (2012). Además de su poesía publicada, Cicero también escribió numerosas letras para canciones de música popular brasileña. Este ensayo investiga, a partir de los parámetros establecidos por la propia crítica de Antonio Cicero al género poético, cómo su obra poética reflexiona sobre aspectos importantes del proceso poético mismo y sobre la ciudad, dos temas de particular interés en su poesía
Analysing collocations in articles published in coworking blogs in Portuguese: A comparative study on authentic and translated texts
No full textThis paper reports on a descriptive and comparative study that falls within corpus based translation studies (Baker, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2004). The goal was to identify and describe similarities and differences in the collocations used in articles published in coworking blogs written originally in Portuguese and in texts of the same genre written in English and translated into Portuguese. Tagnin’s (2013) taxonomy was used to inform our view of collocation. We assume that translated texts may use word combinations that do not sound natural in the target language because they are atypical in texts written originally in this language, following Mauranen’s (2007) findings. Also, this paper’s first author has worked with specialized translation for over a decade and observed that, in this context, there is a generalized expectation for texts to sound natural. We therefore argue that translators should be aware and have a good knowledge of collocations. The articles were collected from websites maintained by coworking companies, processed and analysed following corpus linguistics principles, a methodology that allows the identification of linguistic patterns. Two corpora were used: 1) a parallel corpus, with texts written originally in English and their corresponding translations into Portuguese and 2) a monolingual corpus with texts originally written in Portuguese. The corpora were stored in Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al., 2014), and the collocations were identified from n-gram lists from both corpora in Portuguese. The analyses found collocations that were frequently used in both corpora, such as trabalho flexível and espaço de trabalho, which describe professional environments and ways of working. As expected, differences were also found. One example is escritório privativo, which appears only in the translated corpus. In the authentic corpus, this concept is expressed as sala privativa. Thus, this article may be used to raise awareness, among translation students, professional translators, and professors, of the importance of looking for conventional word combinations in the target language while translating texts.This paper reports on a descriptive and comparative study that falls within corpus based translation studies (Baker, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2004). The goal was to identify and describe similarities and differences in the collocations used in articles published in coworking blogs written originally in Portuguese and in texts of the same genre written in English and translated into Portuguese. Tagnin’s (2013) taxonomy was used to inform our view of collocation. We assume that translated texts may use word combinations that do not sound natural in the target language because they are atypical in texts written originally in this language, following Mauranen’s (2007) findings. Also, this paper’s first author has worked with specialized translation for over a decade and observed that, in this context, there is a generalized expectation for texts to sound natural. We therefore argue that translators should be aware and have a good knowledge of collocations. The articles were collected from websites maintained by coworking companies, processed and analysed following corpus linguistics principles, a methodology that allows the identification of linguistic patterns. Two corpora were used: 1) a parallel corpus, with texts written originally in English and their corresponding translations into Portuguese and 2) a monolingual corpus with texts originally written in Portuguese. The corpora were stored in Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al., 2014), and the collocations were identified from n-gram lists from both corpora in Portuguese. The analyses found collocations that were frequently used in both corpora, such as trabalho flexível and espaço de trabalho, which describe professional environments and ways of working. As expected, differences were also found. One example is escritório privativo, which appears only in the translated corpus. In the authentic corpus, this concept is expressed as sala privativa. Thus, this article may be used to raise awareness, among translation students, professional translators, and professors, of the importance of looking for conventional word combinations in the target language while translating texts
Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from five European countries.
No full textpeer reviewedWe use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then remained relatively stable throughout 2021 and 2022. We then establish the individual determinants of loneliness and compare them to those found in the literature predating the COVID-19 pandemic. As in previous work, women are lonelier, and partnership, education, income, and employment protect against loneliness. However, the pandemic substantially shifted the age profile: it is now the youngest who are the loneliest. We last show that pandemic policies affected loneliness, which rose with containment policies but fell with government economic support. Conversely, the intensity of the pandemic itself, via the number of recent COVID-19 deaths, had only a minor impact. The experience of the pandemic has thus shown that public policy can influence societal loneliness trends
