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Economic growth in Albania: the recent demografhic, labour market and povertry dynamics evolution
No full textCivic Education as Economic Infrastructure: The Way Towards Economic Development
No full textRespect for rules is a structural pillar of well-functioning societies and
modern economies, serving as a prerequisite for stability, trust among
economic actors, and sustainable development. However, compliance cannot
be assumed to arise spontaneously or emerge only when convenient. Rather,
it is the result of long-term educational and cultural processes deeply
embedded in social institutions, most notably the family and the school
system. This paper explores the importance of educating individuals to respect
rules as a strategic investment in collective well-being, social cohesion, and
institutional quality. Drawing on an institutionalist perspective, it argues that
when rule compliance is learned early and through consistent experiences, it
fosters trust in institutions, civic engagement, and economic legality. Family
and School - as the primary interface between individuals and the normative
system - play a crucial role in shaping both civic and social capital. Scholars
such as Heckman, North, Acemoglu, and Nussbaum have shown that
investments in early childhood education and schooling have positive effects
on economic productivity, crime reduction, and democratic participation. If
well-designed and widely implemented, education for rule compliance can
strengthen the moral and economic foundations of contemporary democracies,
promoting a model of development that is fairer, more inclusive, and
sustainable. This contribution aims to reaffirm the centrality of education
policies - especially those focused on respect for rules and people - as tools for
preventing illegality and driving development. It emphasizes the need for
coordinated efforts among schools, families, and public institutions to build a citizenry that is aware, cooperative, and respectful of the rules that govern both
economic and social life
Crisi economica e propensione all'illegalità dei giovani universitari baresi
No full textIn 2008 the so-called subprime mortgage crisis developed in the USA. Then, it strongly spilled over Italy, strongly impacting also on the economic system of Puglia.
As it is known, there is a causal link between negative economic shocks and levels of legality and this may also depend on the quality of the institutions. Through the use of institutional quality indicators (IQI) indicators and the data from a survey conducted on Bari’s youth (university students) - being future professionals of the economic productive system - we propose an analysis on their propensity to undertake illegal behaviour in times of economic crisis.Nel 2008 si sviluppa negli USA la cosiddetta crisi dei mutui subprime. L’impatto in Italia e sul sistema economico pugliese è molto forte.
Come noto, vi è un nesso causale tra shock negativi dell’economia e livelli di legalità e questo può dipendere anche dalla qualità delle istituzioni. Attraverso l’uso di alcuni indicatori dell’indice di qualità istituzionale (IQI) e alcuni dati di una survey condotta su giovani universitari di Bari, quali futuri attori e professionisti del sistema economico-produttivo, il contributo propone un’analisi sulla loro propensione o meno, in tempi di crisi economica, ad assumere comportamenti illegali
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
Gli interventi nazionali sui problemi della migrazione: strategie e programmi (National interventions on the issues of migration: strategies and programs)
Full text linkEurope has become the first continent of attraction for migrants and is also the first continent as for incidence of the population emigrated to the total of population. In Italy, in particular, the foreign population has grown from 2000 to 2013 at an average rate of 10% per annum. This scenario, plus the emergence of immigrant landings on the Italian coast as a point of arrival but also as a point of departure to other European countries, leads to awareness of the need for answers, not only at the Italian institutional level but also within a European convergence framework, in the search of policies and programs most appropriate to a new social context, strongly characterized by the presence of the immigrant populatio
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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