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“Young People, the Disabled and Immigrant Workers. An Introduction and Some Policy Recommendations”
No full textPurpose of this paper
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on "Disadvantaged Workers at the Labour market”. It also draws some policy implications that are common to the studies included in the special issue.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper introduces several econometric methodologies adopted in the special issue. Such methodologies represent an excellent overview of the typical approaches developed by applied economists to address the issue under discussion. They include: a) dynamic probit models allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and endogenous initial conditions; b) propensity score matching; c) the non parametric Ñopo (2008) decomposition to take into account sample selection bias; c) endogenous switching models to estimate employment choice; d) fixed effects models and Arellano and Bond (1991) dynamic panel estimator.
Findings
The articles in the special issue highlight several common factors that make the disadvantage at the labor market emerge. The first factor is the recent financial crisis which especially affects young people. Differences in common support – generally due to segregation in low pay jobs – are also important. Several factors favor persistence of the disadvantage, namely the inefficiency of the educational system and the lack of financial support to the weakest groups.
Practical implications
The article adopts the EU definition of “disadvantaged workers”, namely workers who find it hard to enter the labor market without assistance. We show the relevance of the analysis produced in this special issue to design specific policies fine-tuned to the needs of disadvantaged workers. In addition, institutional reforms, and/or interventions on structural variables are also in order.
What is original/value of paper
The paper introduces a number of articles proposing innovations in the interpretation and application of a wide range of theoretical approaches and econometric methodologies
Su un caso di leiomiosarcoma del tenue - Considerazioni cliniche ed anatomopatologiche.
No full text[A case of leiomyosarcoma of the small intestine. Clinical and anatomopathologic considerations].
Minerva Chir. 1990 Sep 15;45(17):1107-15.
Fornaro R, Nahum M, Parodi G, Antoniotti GV, Belcastro E, Lapertosa G, Ferraris R.
Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica I, Università degli Studi di Genova.
Leiomyosarcoma of the small intestine is a malignant mesenchymal tumour composed of smooth muscle cells from the muscular coat or, rarely, from muscularis
mucosae, which in the majority of cases is characterised by a clinically silent development and by an unfavorable prognosis. The considerable difficulty of obtaining a histological definition of the degree of malignancy of the leiomyosarcoma is also typical. The paper reports a clinical case and summarises its main clinical and anatomopathological aspects. In particular, the difficulties of clinical and histological diagnosis of the degree of malignancy are underlined, together with the fact that these have a considerable influence on the possibilities and results of surgical therapy and survival rates
Interessi non bilanciabili e decisioni d’incostituzionalità meramente dichiarative. Il séguito nel giudizio a quo della sentenza n. 170 del 2014 della Corte costituzionale
No full textTransient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome - The need for a common terminology
No full textDirective-commissive threats in the history of Genoese from the 17th to the 20th century
No full textLa (s)cortesia linguistica può essere definita come un insieme di comportamenti verbali che proteggono (cortesia) o minacciano (scortesia) la faccia degli interlocutori e che sono considerati appropriati o non appropriati per ragioni socioculturali o contestuali; infatti, nessuna espressione linguistica è intrinsecamente cortese o scortese. Questo studio si occupa dell’evoluzione della (s)cortesia in genovese – la varietà galloromanza parlata a Genova (Italia) – dal XVII al XX secolo. La ricerca si basa sull’analisi di testi speech-purposed: otto commedie scritte in genovese tra il XVII e il XX secolo, genere scelto in quanto mimetico del parlato dialogico orale e spontaneo. Il lavoro si concentra in particolare sull’analisi delle minacce legate ai direttivi e ne indaga l’evoluzione funzionale, mostrando che, sebbene le minacce siano tipiche della genuine impoliteness e della comunicazione conflittuale, dopo il XIX secolo si riscontrano nel corpus considerato alcuni casi di minacce che perseguono scopi cortesi in contesti non conflittuali. In questo contributo discuteremo le ragioni che motivano questa evoluzione pragmatica, confrontando i dati pragmatico-linguistici con gli eventi storici e socioculturali che hanno caratterizzato le epoche analizzate, e risponderemo a una domanda cruciale: si tratta di casi di cortesia, di mock impoliteness o di altro ancora?Linguistic (im)politeness can be defined as a set of verbal behaviours that protect (politeness) or threaten (impoliteness) the face of interlocutors and are considered appropriate or inappropriate for sociocultural or contextual reasons; in fact, no linguistic expression is inherently polite or impolite. This study deals with the evolution of (im)politeness in Genoese – the Gallo-Romance variety spoken in Genoa (Italy) – from the 17th to the 20th century. The research is based on the analysis of speech-purposed texts: eight plays written in Genoese between the 17th and 20th centuries, a genre chosen because it mimics spontaneous oral dialogue. The work focuses in particular on the analysis of threats related to directives and investigates their functional evolution, showing that, although threats are typical of genuine impoliteness and conflictual communication, after the 19th century, some cases of threats pursuing courteous purposes in non-conflictual contexts can be found in the corpus considered. In this contribution, we will discuss the reasons behind this pragmatic evolution, comparing pragmatic-linguistic data with the historical and socio-cultural events that characterised the periods analysed, and we will answer a crucial question: are these cases of politeness, mock impoliteness or something else
Introduction and Overview
No full textThe book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of social exclusion, from the structural groups, like disabled people and formerly convicted people, to other groups, like the young, unemployed, low skilled workers and immigrants, in terms of income, poverty, health, unemployment, transition between occupational statuses, participation, leading to a widening of socio-economic duality. It has also been stressed the relevance of definitions of socio-economic outcomes for the evaluation of the crisis, and their consequences to define interventions to fight socio-economic effects of the economic downturn. The adequacy of welfare policies to cope with social exclusion, especially during a crisis, has been called into question
Fenomeni della (s)cortesia linguistica in genovese e spagnolo tra XVII e XVIII secolo: uno studio contrastivo
No full textQuesto studio di sociopragmatica storica indaga e mette a confronto l’evoluzione diacronica dell’espressione linguistica della (s)cortesia in genovese e spagnolo tra il XVII e il XVIII secolo, così come documentata in un corpus di testi teatrali in prosa, mimetici della comunicazione orale e spontanea. In particolare, si concentra sull’uso degli atti direttivi (ordini, richieste, proposte, offerte, consigli) ed espressivi (scuse e ringraziamenti) e sull’uso degli allocutivi pronominali e nominali. Quello in esame è un periodo di mutevole ma forte contatto cross-culturale tra la Repubblica di Genova e il complesso di domini della Spagna imperiale, iniziato già secoli prima, ed è noto come ciò abbia comportato influenze reciproche a livello linguistico, in particolare lessicale. Tuttavia ad oggi non esistono studi che verifichino se le influenze linguistiche tra questi due idiomi abbiamo raggiunto o meno anche il livello comunicativo, in particolare la gestione della (s)cortesia. È appunto con questo fine che è stato svolto il presente studio di (s)cortesia storica su genovese e spagnolo nel XVII e XVIII secolo.This study of historical sociopragmatics investigates and compares the diachronic evolution of the linguistic expression of (im)politeness in Genoese and Spanish between the 17th and 18th centuries, as documented in a corpus of theatrical prose texts mimetic of oral and spontaneous communication. In particular, it focuses on the use of directive acts (orders, requests, proposals, offers, advices) and expressive acts (apologies and thankgiving) and on the use of pronominal and nominal allocutives. The period under examination is one of changing but strong cross-cultural contact between the Republic of Genoa and the domains of imperial Spain, which began centuries earlier, and it is well known that this led to mutual influences at the linguistic level, particularly in terms of vocabulary. However, to date, there are no studies that verify whether the linguistic influences between these two languages also reached the communicative level, in particular the management of (im)politeness. It is precisely for this purpose that the present study of historical (im)politeness in Genoese and Spanish in the 17th and 18th centuries was carried out
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