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Più consegne, meno diritti: l’infausta parabola giuridica dei rider
No full textLuca Bonacini e Valentina Camurri, analizzando i dati Google Trend, mostrano che la richiesta di servizi di food delivery è aumentata con le misure di distanziamento sociale adottate nella prima ondata di Covid-19 e non è tornata ai livelli pre-pandemici con il loro alleggerimento. Bonacini e Camurri ipotizzano, quindi, che il cambiamento forzato delle abitudini accrescerà in modo permanente il ricorso ai rider e sostengono che ciò rende quanto mai urgenti strumenti di contrasto a forme di sfruttamento che le piattaforme potrebbero porre in essere
Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: remote learning and education inequalities
Full text linkIs remote learning associated with education inequalities? We use PISA 2018 data from five European countries—France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom—to investigate whether education outcomes are related to the possession of the resources needed for distance learning. After controlling for a wide set of covariates, fixed effects, different specifications and testing the stability of coefficients, we find that remote learning is positively associated with average education outcomes, but also with strong and significant education inequalities. Our results show that negative gaps are larger where online schooling is more widespread, across countries, locations, and school types. More generally, remote learning inequalities appear to be associated with technological network externalities: they increase as digital education spreads. Policy makers must guarantee to all students and schools the possession of the resources needed for remote learning, but to reach this goal efficiently they must adapt their actions to the characteristics of countries, areas and school systems. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10663-022-09556-7
L’immigrazione tra politiche umanitarie e politiche securitarie: che fine ha fatto l'integrazione?
Full text linkUna riflessione sugli interventi più recenti in tema di immigrazione
Unraveling the controversial effect of Covid-19 on college students’ performance
Full text linkAbstract We disentangle the channels through which Covid-19 has affected the performance of university students by setting up an econometric strategy to identify separately changes in both teaching and evaluation modes, and the short and long term effects of mobility restrictions. We exploit full and detailed information from the administrative archives of one among the first universities to be shut down since the virus spread from Wuhan. The results help solving the inconsistencies in the literature by providing evidence of a composite picture where negative effects such as those caused by the sudden shift to remote learning and by the exposure to mobility restrictions, overlap to opposite effects due to a change in evaluation methods and home confinement during the exam’s preparation. Such overlap of conflicting effects, weakening the signaling role of tertiary education, would add to the learning loss by further exacerbating future consequences on the “Covid” generation
Istruzione terziaria e finanziamenti pubblici: un’opportunità di crescita?
Full text linkLuca Bonacini, Giuseppe Pignataro e Cristina Specchi in relazione alle politiche universitarie, centrali anche per il PNRR, sottolineano l’importanza di un loro orientamento ad accrescere l’attrattività dell’università e, in questa prospettiva, della riduzione del divario tra Nord e Sud, tra centro e periferia
Adams and Eves: High school math and the gender gap in Economics majors
Full text linkWhy so few women graduate in Economics? We investigate the gender gap among Italian university graduates in Economics between 2010 and 2019. With women's probability of graduating in Economics being 27% lower than men's, the gap is larger than in Business and even STEM. The association between the gender gap and the mathematical content of high school curricula is especially strong in Economics. A triple difference analysis shows that a reform raising the mathematical content of traditionally low math curricula caused an increase in the gender gap, with women's probability of graduating in Economics decreasing by 12 percentage points
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
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
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