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Job satisfaction among young Russian workers
No full textStime di modelli di job satisfaction per i giovani lavoratori russi. Il modello è stimato con ordered logit robusto per eterogeneità latente su dati panel estratti dalla Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Young people and the labour market: a review
No full textThis book is the upshot of the EU IRSES project "The political economy of youth unemployment". The project has been an opportunity to set up a network of scholars (mainly from Italian and Russian universities) dealing with youth labour market and policies, viewed in a perspective of comparison between countries. In this Introduction, we briefly summarize, first, the most relevant articles already published by the authors involved in the EU project; and, afterwards, the studies included in the ten chapters of this boo
Marshallian vs Jacobs effects: which is stronger? Evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics
Full text linkThis paper studies the influence of diversification and specialization on one of the main indicators of the Russian labour market: unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian regions, Marshallian or Jacobs, and whether this predominance is stable for different time periods. We tested empirically the following hypotheses: 1) the dependence of the unemployment growth on the concentration or diversification is nonlinear due to possible overlapping effects of urbanization and localization; 2) the influence of the concentration or diversification on the unemployment growth depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses, we use nonparametric additive models with spatial effects. Both hypotheses found empirical confirmation, with each effect prevailing in different time periods: Marshallian effects were prevalent in 2008-2010, and 2013-2016, while Jacobs effects were prevalent in 2010-2013
Youth unemployment, labour productivity and the evolution of the labour markets in Europe
No full textThe size and persistence of youth unemployment has become unacceptable in some European countries, particularly in Southern Europe. Stagnation in labour productivity, on the other hand, goes back to the ‘90s and even worsened after the burst of the crisis. A further evidence is that labour market reforms in many countries introduced, over the past twenty years, a set of newly designed job contracts that allowed the use of temporary work. We describe these phenomena and countries heterogeneity in four dimensions: labour productivity, youth unemployment, EPL (Employment Protection Legislation) and temporary work, and their dynamic
Job satisfaction and compensating wage differentials: evidence from Russia
No full textTest dell'ipotesi dei differenziali salariali compensativi nel mercato del lavoro in Russia sulla base di un modello di job satisfaction. Il modello è stimato con ordered logit robusto per eterogeneità latente su dati panel estratti dalla Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Посредницы русской литературы: эволюция парадигмы в XIX веке
No full textIn the first part of the article, the author corrects the traditional understanding of the term “mediator” applied to the literary sphere, offering a new definition which allows to distinguish between several levels of mediation in the literary field and present a complete paradigm of women’s mediating roles: publishers; editors; translators; literary critics; patrons; hostesses of artistic, literary and socio-literary salons; mothers, wives, widows and other female relatives of writers; mistresses; pupils and muses; memoirists; diarists; and prototypes of literary heroines. Besides, this part substantiates the dynamism of these roles and justifies the choice of two types of sources (ego-texts and bibliographic reference editions) chosen for the analysis of their genesis and evolution in literary history. The second part is devoted to the description and semantic-statistical analysis of eight ego-texts ( four male and four female ones), revealing a number of constants in the formation of the female mediator paradigm in nineteenth-century Russian literature. The third part presents a detailed hermeneutic and semiotic analysis of two women’s ego-texts (Avdotia Panaeva’s and Elena Stackenschneider’s) which illustrate the mechanisms of formation and functioning of women’s mediating roles and their actualization in memoirs and diaries. The article ends with general conclusions defining the specificities of the evolution of women mediators’ roles in nineteenth-century Russian literary life.Dans la première partie de l’article, l’autrice rectifie la compréhension traditionnelle du terme « médiateur » appliqué à la sphère littéraire et au processus littéraire, et, sur la base d’une nouvelle définition, distingue plusieurs niveaux de médiation dans le domaine littéraire. Elle propose un paradigme complet des rôles médiateurs des femmes : éditrices, rédactrices en chef, traductrices, critiques littéraires, mécènes, hôtesses de salons artistiques, littéraires et socio-littéraires, mères, épouses, veuves et autres parentes d’écrivains, maîtresses, élèves et muses,mémorialistes, autrices de journaux intimes, prototypes d’héroïnes littéraires. Dans cette partie, on démontre le dynamisme de ces rôles et justifie le choix de deux types de sources (les ego-textes et les éditions bibliographiques de référence) pour analyser leur genèse et leur évolution dans l’histoire littéraire. La deuxième partie est consacrée à la description et à l’analyse sémantico-statistique de huit ego-textes(quatre masculins et quatre féminins) permettant de mettre en évidence un certain nombre d’éléments constants dans la formation du paradigme de la femme médiatrice dans la littérature russe du XIXe siècle. La troisième partie présente une analyse herméneutique et sémiotique détaillée de deux ego-textes de femmes (Avdotia Panaïéva et Éléna Stackenschneider) qui illustrent les mécanismes de formation et de fonctionnement des rôles médiateurs des femmes et leur actualisation dans les mémoires et les journaux intimes. L’article se termine par des conclusions générales qui définissent les spécificités de l’évolution des rôles des médiatrices dans le champ littéraire russe du XIXe siècle.включающую роли издательниц, редакторов, переводчиц, литературных критиков, меценаток, хозяек художественных, литературных и общественно-литературных салонов, матерей, жен, вдов и других женщин-родственниц писателей, их возлюбленных, учениц и муз, мемуаристок и авторов дневников, прототипов литературных героинь. Кроме того, в этой части обосновывается динамичность указанных ролей и вwыбор двух типов источников (эготекстов и справочно-библиографических изданий) для анализа их генезиса и эволюции в истории литературы. Вторая часть посвящена описанию и семантико-статистическому анализу восьми эготекстов (четырех мужских и четырех женских), позволившему выделить ряд закономерностей формирования женской посреднической парадигмы в русской литературе Xix в. В третьей части представлен развернутый герменевтико-семиотический анализ двух женских эготекстов (А. Я. Панаевой и Е. А. Штакеншнейдер), иллюстрирующих механизмы формирования и функционирования женских посреднических ролей и актуализации их в воспоминаниях и дневниках. Статья завершается общими выводами, характеризующими специфику эволюции женских посреднических ролей в русской литературной жизни XIX в
Olga Koubrak: Protecting the Caribbean Sawfish
No full textStudent editor Patrick Sheppard sits down with Professor Olga Koubrak of the Schulich School of Law to discuss her work on the legal frameworks to protect sawfish in the Caribbean. Olga is the author of a 2018 paper titled “A Future for a Forgotten Predator: An Assessment of International Legal Frameworks for Protection and Recovery of the Caribbean Sawfishes,” and co-author of the more recent 2022 article titled “Strengthening Marine Species Protections in Cuba: A Case Study on the Critically Endangered Smalltooth Sawfish.” Patrick and Olga discuss the sawfish, means of protecting the animal domestically and internationally, problems in enforcement and international cooperation, and how the public perception of an animal affects how it is protected by authorities. To learn more about Olga and her work, check out her website at www.sealifelaw.org
The metaphysics of death in prose of Olga Tokarczuk
No full textThe article presents and analyses the motive of death in the works of Olga Tokarczuk. The author focuses on anthropological and philosophic grasp of that category in her narrative prose. The text included here is a fragment of one of the chapters of author’s doctoral thesis entitled: The metaphysics of death, time and love in the works of Olga Tokarczuk
Labour productivity of young and adult temporary workers and youth unemployment: a cross-country analysis
No full textThe latest crisis has exacerbated two negative macroeconomic phenomena, particularly in Southern Europe. The size and persistence of youth unemployment has become unacceptable after 2010. Stagnation in labour productivity instead goes back to the ‘90s, but it has not improved since then and even worsen with the crisis. In this paper we analysed these two macroeconomic features, using aggregate data, in relation to labour market characteristics. Reforms of regulation, in many countries over the past twenty years, introduced a set of newly designed job contracts that allowed the use of temporary work. At the same time, Employment Protection Regulation encompassed temporary workers too. The availability of new contracts and EPLT changed the incentives of firms to vary their labour needs, and to invest in new technology.
Eventually, this should have an impact on labour productivity and unemployment. We distinguished between temporary young and adult workers and, conditional to the level of
employment protection, we estimate their labour productivity and the correlation with the rate of youth unemployment. We use macroeconomic data for countries within groups (former Euro zone countries, Euro-zone plus Russia, OECD, G7, G8). Preliminary evidence shows that the share of adult temporary workers clearly and negatively affects labour productivity, no matter the group of countries
Determinants of youth unemployment in Russian regions
No full textIn spite of a growing body of literature investigating the determinants of youth
unemployment, studies at sub-national level are still scarce, especially for Russian
regions. This article is an innovative attempt to analyse econometrically the key factors
affecting the youth unemployment rate and the ratio between youth and total
unemployment rates for 75 Russian regions in 2000–09. The existing literature on
regional labour market performance and dynamics suggested the use of a large set
of explanatory variables (with indicators of the level of economic development,
the demographic situation and migration processes, and the export–import levels) in
a GMM panel data analysis, taking into account both spatial correlation and
endogeneity problems. Although we were searching for structural determinants, we
also investigated the effect of the 2008–09 financial crisis. The econometric results,
presented and discussed using several models, have key policy implications for both
national and regional levels of government
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