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Mysteries of Osiris - performance or ritual?
No full textThe article is devoted to the question of ancient Egyptian mysteries of Osiris, god of death and renewable life. During this feast, priests were playing story about the anguish, death, and resurrection of the god. Author attempts to reconstruct course of the performance. Mysteries of Osiris are an unique phenomenon out of one significant reason: they’re ritual as well as performance. Author refers to actual discussion in theatre science about origins of the theatre. It shows that history of theatre can start earlier than in ancient Greece
Wage gap, education and wage discrimination
No full text[eng] This final degree project examines the gender pay gap in Spain and Europe,
focusing on its causes, the educational attainment of women and men, and the
wage disparities between public and private companies, as well as between
full-time and part-time employment.
The project explores the persistent wage gap between genders and aims to
identify the underlying factors contributing to this inequality. It investigates
potential causes such as occupational segregation, discrimination, differences in
educational attainment, and work-life balance issues. Occupational segregation
refers to the phenomenon where men and women tend to be disproportionately
represented in different job sectors or industries. This results in specific
industries being dominated by one gender, while the other gender is
underrepresented or excluded from those fields.
The educational levels of women and men are analyzed to understand if
differences in educational achievements contribute to the gender pay gap. The
project also investigates wage disparities between public and private
companies, examining if variations in wage practices and policies play a role in
perpetuating the gap.
Furthermore, the study explores the wage differences between full-time and
part-time employment arrangements. It examines whether part-time workers,
who are predominantly women, experience significant wage disadvantages
compared to their full-time counterparts.
The findings of this research have important implications for policymakers,
employers, and individuals concerned with gender equality and fair labour
practices. By understanding the causes and dynamics of the gender pay gap,
appropriate measures can be implemented to promote equal pay for equal work,
encourage gender-balanced educational opportunities, and foster equitable
wage practices across different sectors and employment arrangements.
Overall, this final degree project contributes to the existing knowledge on labour
economics by shedding light on the gender pay gap in Spain and Europe. It
emphasises the significance of education, workplace policies, and employment
arrangements in addressing wage disparities and advancing gender equality in
the labour market
Inter-State Subsidy Competition For A New Plant: What Is The Federal Government Optimal Policy?
No full textInter-region Competition for FDI
No full textThis paper models inter-regional competition for FDI and optimal government policy intervention to protect the national interest. Two regional authorities bargain with a single multinational over where it will locate. This potentially leads to excessive competition between the regions, favouring the multinational. The federal government obviously wants to limit such competition but lacks information on comparative advantage. This paper examines its optimal policy. Among the main results we have the following two: First, the federal government would use tax policy to create asymmetries even when the underlying structure is symmetrical. Second, there are situations where, even though one MNC is more productive in one region, it is optimal for the country to make it go to the other one.Subsidy competition, FDI, bargaining
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OSIRIS-APEX: An OSIRIS-REx Extended Mission to Asteroid Apophis
No full textThe Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu. After the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule released to Earth’s surface in 2023 September, the spacecraft diverted into a new orbit that encounters asteroid (99942) Apophis in 2029, enabling a second mission with the same unique capabilities: OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer (APEX). On 2029 April 13, the 340 m diameter Apophis will draw within ∼32,000 km of Earth’s surface, less than 1/10 the lunar distance. Apophis will be the largest object to approach Earth this closely in recorded history. This rare planetary encounter will alter Apophis’s orbit, will subject it to tidal forces that change its spin state, and may seismically disturb its surface. APEX will distantly observe Apophis during the Earth encounter and capture its evolution in real time, revealing the consequences of an asteroid undergoing tidal disturbance by a major planet. Beginning in 2029 July, the spacecraft’s instrument suite will begin providing high-resolution data of this “stony” asteroid—advancing knowledge of these objects and their connection to meteorites. Near the mission’s end, APEX will use its thrusters to excavate regolith, a technique demonstrated at Bennu. Observations before, during, and after excavation will provide insight into the subsurface and material properties of stony asteroids. Furthermore, Apophis’s material and structure have critical implications for planetary defense. © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.Open access journalThis item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Population, Education And Income Inequality
No full text[eng] In non-democracies, a large population size and density lead to more redistributive policies and lower income inequality. This is the result of the interconnection of two intermediate hypotheses. First, in non-democracies a larger population size and density increase the chance of a revolution attempt to overthrow the governing elites. Second, this revolution threat prompts the elites to better re-distribute the country's income in an attempt to fend off this threat. This paper suggests and empirically tests that wider spread primary and, to a lesser extent, secondary education is one of the channels through which the elites achieve this better distribution
Optimal country's policy towards multinationals when local regions can choose between firm-specific and non-firm-specific policies
No full textThis paper looks at a county’s central government optimal policy in a setting where its two identical local regions compete for the attraction of footloose multinationals to their sites, and where the considered multinationals strictly prefer this country to the rest of the world. For the sake of reality the model allows the local regions to choose between the implementation of firm-specific and non-firm-specific policies. We find that, even though the two local regions are identical, some degree of regional tax competition is good for country’s welfare. Moreover, we show that the implementation of the regional firmspecific policies weakly welfare dominates the implementation of the regional non-firmspecific ones. Hence the not infrequent calls for the central government to ban the former type of policies go against the advice of this paper.FDI, regional, tax competition, concurrent taxation, bargaining, tax posting, footloose multinational, optimal policy, country’s welfare
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