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Income Support Policies for “Weak” Liberal Professionals: A Pathway for Coordinated Conditions in a Common Market?
Full text linkThis chapter deals with the income support issue from the less-explored perspective of the “weak” liberal professionals. It first provides some statistical data on liberal professionals suffering, in Europe, situations like financial hardship or low monthly income. Afterwards, the author explores possible solutions through a comparative legal analysis addressing Italy, Spain, and France. The focus is, first, on structured juridical frameworks protecting liberal professionals from “strong” customers, also including measures for minimum duration of service agreements, enhanced contrast to unfair contract terms, and minimum thresholds for compensations. At a later stage, the analysis moves on to unemployment benefit schemes. The second part of the study examines income support policies individuated by the comparative analysis, and in particular minimum thresholds for compensations, through the lens of EU antitrust law. The contribution ends with a reflection on the solutions offered by the EU legal framework to promote and coordinate income support policies for weak liberal professionals in all the Member States.info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
EU Digital Covid Certificate: from a ‘gentle push’ for vaccination to a condition to work? Implications and legacy in the field of employment relationship
Full text linkThe contribution examines the main implications, for employment relationships, of French and Italian national versions of the EU Digital Covid Certificate, utilized as wide-range measures to foster vaccination. First, the Author provides an overview of related strategies adopted in the two countries from mid-2021, and limiting access to workplaces. Furthermore, through a comparative legal analysis aimed to discuss if, in the labour context, French and Italian certificates can be framed as statutory prerequisites to carry out a job, as workplace safety measures, or as a hybrid tertium genus, he attempts to let emerge similarities and differences between the two national strategies. Finally, the last part of the contribution focuses on Italy. It examines more in detail the possible legacy of such exceptional measures to contrast the pandemic, emphasizing the risk of a heterogenesis of purposes
Un enfoque holístico del teletrabajo: desde los inconvenientes sufridos por los empleados hasta una «compensación justa» integral
Full text linkThe unprecedented surge of employees working remotely in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis, shone a spotlight on some related disadvantages. Focusing on employees of the private sector, the most rele-vant of these include additional professional costs, informal overtime, and psychosocial risks. Their sig-nificant impact on employees seems to contrast with the EU model of digital transition and encourages us to look for possible remedies. In light of this, the author suggests adopting a holistic perspective. He proposes, thus, a vision of ‘fair compensation’ aimed at thoroughly neutralizing the negative impact of remote digital work on employees. Moving from a comparative analysis of the legal framework of France, Italy, and Spain – three EU medium/large economies which most used remote digital work during the pandemic – the contribution provides a definition of fair compensation, identifies some of its current highest standards and provides some insight into its possible practical implications.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the EU Green Deal: A Labour Perspective
No full textThe implementation of the EU Green Deal, aiming at reaching carbon-neutrality by 2050, will entail significant changes for the European society. Starting from one of the three pillars of this strategy—no leaving behind any person—the Author examines this set of green policies—and especially one of its main funding mechanisms, the Just Transition Fund—from a gender equality perspective, assessing its capability to prevent such an epochal change to worsen women’s condition in the labour market. After having demonstrated that gender perspective is less prominent in the Just Transition Fund, if compared with other anti-crisis funding mechanisms adopted by the EU in recent years, the contribution focuses on possible remedies to this flaw, presenting three existing solutions for gender mainstreaming that could be integrated therein: i) the EIGE Gender Impact Assessment Toolkit; ii) Tool No. 11 of the ILO Gender Mainstreaming Strategies; and iii) Gender Equality Plans already integrated in the EU system for funding research. A critical analysis of the aptitude of these solutions to make more gender sensitive, from a labour perspective, the EU green funding system is offered in the final part of the contribution, according to three criteria: efficacy, versatility, and difficulty of implementation.info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersio
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A holistic approach to remote digital work : from the inconveniences suffered by employees to a comprehensive 'fair compensation'
No full textInternational audienceThe unprecedented surge of employees working remotely in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis, shone a spotlight on some related disadvantages. Focusing on employees of the private sector, the most relevant of these include additional professional costs, informal overtime, and psychosocial risks. Their significant impact on employees seems to contrast with the EU model of digital transition and encourages us to look for possible remedies. In light of this, the author suggests adopting a holistic perspective. He proposes, thus, a vision of 'fair compensation' aimed at thoroughly neutralizing the negative impact of remote digital work on employees. Moving from a comparative analysis of the legal framework of France, Italy, and Spain-three EU medium/large economies which most used remote digital work during the pandemic-the contribution provides a definition of fair compensation, identifies some of its current highest standards and provides some insight into its possible practical implications.El aumento sin precedentes del número de empleados que teletrabajan en Europa, durante la crisis de la COVID-19, puso de relieve algunos inconvenientes relacionados con este. Centrándonos en los empleados del sector privado, entre los más relevantes se encuentran los costes profesionales adicionales, las horas extras y los riesgos psicosociales. Su impacto significativo en los empleados parece contrastar con el modelo de transición digital de la UE y nos anima a buscar posibles soluciones. En este sentido, el autor sugiere adoptar una perspectiva holística. Por lo tanto, propone una visión de «remuneración justa» destinada a neutralizar completamente el impacto negativo del teletrabajo en los empleados. Tras un análisis comparativo del marco legal de Francia, Italia y España, las tres economías medianas/grandes de la UE que más utilizaron el trabajo a distancia durante la pandemia, la propuesta proporciona una definición de compensación justa, identifica algunas de sus normas más restrictivas en la actualidad y proporciona algunas pistas sobre sus posibles implicaciones prácticas
A holistic approach to remote digital work : from the inconveniences suffered by employees to a comprehensive 'fair compensation'
No full textInternational audienceThe unprecedented surge of employees working remotely in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis, shone a spotlight on some related disadvantages. Focusing on employees of the private sector, the most relevant of these include additional professional costs, informal overtime, and psychosocial risks. Their significant impact on employees seems to contrast with the EU model of digital transition and encourages us to look for possible remedies. In light of this, the author suggests adopting a holistic perspective. He proposes, thus, a vision of 'fair compensation' aimed at thoroughly neutralizing the negative impact of remote digital work on employees. Moving from a comparative analysis of the legal framework of France, Italy, and Spain-three EU medium/large economies which most used remote digital work during the pandemic-the contribution provides a definition of fair compensation, identifies some of its current highest standards and provides some insight into its possible practical implications.El aumento sin precedentes del número de empleados que teletrabajan en Europa, durante la crisis de la COVID-19, puso de relieve algunos inconvenientes relacionados con este. Centrándonos en los empleados del sector privado, entre los más relevantes se encuentran los costes profesionales adicionales, las horas extras y los riesgos psicosociales. Su impacto significativo en los empleados parece contrastar con el modelo de transición digital de la UE y nos anima a buscar posibles soluciones. En este sentido, el autor sugiere adoptar una perspectiva holística. Por lo tanto, propone una visión de «remuneración justa» destinada a neutralizar completamente el impacto negativo del teletrabajo en los empleados. Tras un análisis comparativo del marco legal de Francia, Italia y España, las tres economías medianas/grandes de la UE que más utilizaron el trabajo a distancia durante la pandemia, la propuesta proporciona una definición de compensación justa, identifica algunas de sus normas más restrictivas en la actualidad y proporciona algunas pistas sobre sus posibles implicaciones prácticas
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