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The Fair Trade economy and positive external effects in developed countries: the case of volunteers'competences, theoretical hypothesis for the Fair Trade
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L'e-portfolio degli studenti universitari a sostegno del loro processo di sviluppo professionale
No full textNel presente contributo, che costituisce uno dei risultati del progetto europeo EUROPLACEMENT – Expertising and Sharing Lifelong Guidance for the Placement (Transfer of Innovation, 2008-2010), viene affrontato innanzitutto il problema dell’uso dell’e-portfolio mettendone in rilievo le peculiarità rispetto al portfolio cartaceo quali la facilità di accesso e di consultazione, la possibilità di supportare processi diversificati di riflessione e di connessione tra le prove, la facilità di trasporto e la facilità di condivisione e di ricezione di feedback. Attraverso un’analisi sistematica della letteratura internazionale, ne viene poi esplorata la varietà di definizioni e applicazioni nel complesso ambito dell’istruzione superiore attraversato da forti cambiamenti e sfide, allo scopo di evidenziarne gli elementi chiave che vengono individuati nella raccolta e nella selezione intenzionali, da parte del soggetto autore dell’e-portfolio, di prove/evidenze/prodotti dei suoi apprendimento e delle sue competenze, nel suo processo di “riflessione” su prodotti/oggetti/idee che gli assegna un chiaro diritto di proprietà e un ruolo unico nell’ambito dell’e-portfolio, nella sua rappresentazione delle relazioni tra i diversi item/evidenze; a partire dallo stesso repository di prove/evidenze può infatti essere creato più di un portfolio per valorizzare i propri “beni” in un particolare contesto. Lo studio prosegue con l’analisi di ricerche empiriche,compiute soprattutto nel contesto lavorativo australiano, tese a rilevare la percezione dei benefici dell’uso dell’Australian e-portfolio toolkit da parte dei datori di lavoro, enti professionali e servizi per lo sviluppo di carriera, in particolare sul reclutamento e sul processo di valutazione, sull’analisi dei bisogni, sullo sviluppo professionale continuo, sul riconoscimento delle competenze e sull’internazionalizzazione della forza lavoro. Nel contributo infine, vengono sviluppati riflessioni e interrogativi per la costruzione e la validazione dell’e-portfolio in ambito universitario, finalizzato a supportare da un lato gli studenti e laureandi nel processo di ricerca del lavoro, dall’altro gli operatori degli uffici di Placement
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Labour Market Integration of Young People
No full textIn recent years there has been a resurge of interest in young people's employment problems, the focus of labour economists and sociologists during the Seventies and Eighties, also covering countries with apparently good employment situations (such as Sweden, Germany and United Kingdom). This interest is timely and Europe-wide, prompted by escalating youth unemployment, difficulties in the transition from school to the labour market and the precariousness of short-term employment alternating with unemployment. Even countries with a high level of adult employment and some of the best labour-market performances have encountered problems in recent years. The unfavourable position of young people in the labour market is evident across Europe. Figure 1 (Annex 1)2 shows the youth-to-adult unemployment ratio (15-29 versus 30-59) in the 27 member countries, where Lithuania shows the lowest, followed by Germany, and Italy the highest ratio, followed by Sweden and UK, countries with a youth-to-adult unemployment ratio of over 3. The same figure indicates an increase of this ratio between 2000 and 2005, the most striking example being Sweden, whose youth-to-adult unemployment ratio rose from 1.6 in 2000 to over 3 in 2005. Also in UK, Cyprus and Austria we find a strong deterioration of this ratio. The only, slight improvements can be found in Finland, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Poland. Evidently, that the integration of young people in the labour market is becoming increasingly difficult, subject to long entry periods in which unemployment alternates with atypical contracts (see Figure 2, Annex 1). The more or less stable level of the youth to total employment ratio from 2000 to 2005 (except for Luxembourg, rising from 4 in 2000 to almost 6 in 2005, Romania dropping from 4 in 2000 to under 3 in 2005 and Cyprus with the lowest value in 2005, around 1.5, slightly less than in 2000, see Figure 4, Annex 1) shows that temporary employment is becoming widespread among the young. The share of under 12-month contracts ranges from 28-29% in Greece and the Netherlands to 55% in Spain, 59% in Sweden and 66% in Finland (see Table 16, Annex 1). The accession of the EU 12 has had repercussions on the mean age of women at childbirth (on average the new member countries have an age two years below the mean, see Table 32, Annex 1) and on other elements such as the level of human capital, performances on the labour market, and the age of entry in the labour market. However, these gaps seem to be narrowing, revealing an alarming general picture. This chapter will explore the reasons for this insufficient labour-market integration through the statistical-econometric analysis of quantitative data, based on EUROSTAT source and qualitative data. The first section illustrates the indicators of youth labour-market integration in the 27 member states, discussing the reasons for insufficient labour- market integration. The second section estimates how indicators of human capital affect the labour-market integration of young people. The third section analyses how labour-market institutions and differences in employment protection legislation are responsible for differences in the size of youth employment. The forth section describes the contribution young people make to the labour force and economic growth and provide recommendations to improve the labour market integration of young people
Qualità del lavoro, squilibri tra struttura qualitativa della domanda e dell'offerta di lavoro e strategie di apprendimento
No full textPathways to work: Current practices and future needs for the labour market integration of young people-YOUTH: Young in Occupations and Unemployment: THinking of their better integration in the labour market
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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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