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Le politiche di contrasto alla povertà in Europa
No full textABSTRACT DEL VOLUME: Le misure di trasferimento monetario condizionato (TMC), nate a metà degli anni '90 in America Latina, giocano oggi un ruolo chiave nelle strategie antipovertà di molti paesi. La caratteristica principale di tali misure è la previsione di specifiche condizioni comportamentali, che i beneficiari si impegnano a rispettare, come presupposto necessario per accedere al trasferimento economico.
Nei paesi ad alto reddito i programmi che includono trasferimenti monetari condizionati sono stati ampiamenti utilizzati nel settore dell'istruzione, nell'ambito delle strategie di welfare-to-work e più recentemente in quasi tutti gli schemi di reddito minimo garantito. Nel corso degli anni sono state realizzate numerose analisi finalizzate a sintetizzare le evidenze degli effetti prodotti da tali misure realizzate nei paesi in via di sviluppo; sono invece molto limitate quelle realizzate nei paesi con economie avanzate.
È a partire da questi presupposti che nasce il lavoro di revisione della letteratura, presentato nel volume e focalizzato sui programmi realizzati nei paesi dell'area Ocse. L'obiettivo del lavoro di revisione è stato duplice. Da una parte offrire input ai soggetti chiamati a disegnare e/o implementare questo tipo di programmi in Italia, dall'altra sperimentare e diffondere tra studiosi e organismi predisposti a programmare e realizzare valutazioni, un approccio di revisione della letteratura denominato 'Sintesi Realista', utilizzato per sintetizzare le evidenze di programmi sociali complessi
Eloge
No full textOverview of the typology of the encomiastic epigram, from the archaic to the Byzantine period. Silvia Barbantani is author of the section on Greek epigram Rosario Moreno Soldevila is author of the section on the latin epigram
The National Labour Policies in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy and of the European Economic Governance
No full textThe National Labour Policies in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy and of the European Economic Governance, by Silvia Borelli
The author presents the main priorities of the Europe 2020 strategy and the different steps of the European Semester of the European Economic Governance. The system of the European measures to solve the economic crisis is completed by the analysis of the “Six Pack”, the EuroPlus Pact and the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance. The author clarifies how the European Employment Strategy has been fully absorbed by the European Economic Governance. After considering some of the new European economic framework’s consequences on Member States’ labour policies and on social dialogue, the author focuses on the recent review of Italian labour policies, performed by European Commission as part of the European Semester
Lavorare per la rivoluzione. Un'impresa commerciale tra Italia e Cina
No full textThe volume collects the biographical testimony of Fabio Matteini who, starting from the ’60s, undertook an import activity of Chinese handcra products with the aim of supporting the political and cultural initiative of the Edizioni Oriente of Milan, the main center for the spread of Maoism in Italy. The testimony is accompanied by a prefatory essay by Gilda Zazzara on Matteini work culture and by a selection of photographs taken by the author during the years of the Cultural Revolution, chosen and introduced by Silvia Calamandrei
Experiential verbs in Homeric Greek
No full textIn Experiential verbs in Homeric Greek. A constructional approach Silvia
Luraghi offers a comprehensive account of construction variation with
two-place verbs belonging to different sub-domains of experience
(including bodily sensation, perception, cognition, emotion and
volitionality) in the Homeric language. Traditionally, variation is
ascribed to the independent meaning of cases that mark the second
argument, and explanations have focused on properties of the latter.
By taking a constructional approach, the author shows that construction
variation also brings about differences in the conceptualization of the
subject/experiencer by pointing to different degrees of control and
awareness. Variation is then shown to refl ect the embodied construal
of experience along with the social dimension of emotion
Lexical semantic change detection for Ancient Greek:dataset creation and evaluation of a word-embedding-based technique
Full text linkWe create a benchmark for the evaluation of lexical semantic change detection in Ancient Greek and use it to assess the validity of two metrics of lexical semantic change on diachronic embeddings models. Stopponi et al. (2024b) assessed the viability of lexical semantic change detection for Ancient Greek with word2vec models, using two existing measures. However, only a manual evaluation was conducted since a benchmark for the evaluation of this task for Ancient Greek was still missing. We create such a benchmark by extracting cases of semantic change from close-reading studies in Ancient Greek lexical semantics. We also create a parallel benchmark of semantically stable items and assess the effectiveness of the most relevant of the two metrics in distinguishing semantically changed from semantically stable items. Finally, we qualitatively evaluate the candidates for semantic change detected by filtering words by low vector coherence value and high frequency. The results show that the method is effective at retrieving cases of semantic change, especially when coupled with frequency information, but also reinforce the idea that performing lexical semantic change detection on an ancient language and building a robust evaluation benchmark are particularly challenging tasks. In conclusion, we propose a constructive way to leverage this method as a research companion, by integrating it with the close-reading method
Does strict employment protection discourage job creation? Evidence from Croatia
Full text linkEmployment protection legislation in Croatia is among the most strict in Europe. Firing is difficult and costly, and flexible forms of employment are limited. Is this apparent rigidity reflected-as one would expect based on standard economic theory-in low labor market dynamics? Is job creation low and hiring limited? Is the job security of insiders achieved at the cost of outsiders not being able to enter thelabor market? The author attempts to answer these questions by examining job flows. If the employment protection legislation is binding, then job and worker turnover should be low. He shows that this is indeed the case. Hiring is limited and the average job tenure is very long in Croatia. Job destruction is low, however job creation is still lower. The result is accumulation of unemployment, in large part due to new labor market entrants not being able to find a job. The high degree of job protection also seems to strengthen the bargaining position of insiders and results in relatively high wages. So, wages in Croatia are higher than among its competitors, even after adjusting for productivity. These high labor costs are likely to contribute to limited job creation in existing firms, but also are likely to discourage the entry of-and thus job creation in-new firms. The author presents evidence that firm growth has been indeed limited in Croatia, contributing to the low employment level. The author examines other potential causes of high unemployment in Croatia (the unemployment benefit system, labor taxation, the wage structure, and skill and spatial mismatches). He argues that they do not play a substantial part in accounting for poor labor market outcomes in Croatia. The author concludes that the stringent employment protection legislation is the key labor market institution behind low job creation and high unemployment. Based on this he recommends specific measures aimed at liberalizing the labor market to foster job creation and employment.Labor Management and Relations,Labor Policies,Labor Markets,Environmental Economics&Policies,Trade Finance and Investment,Labor Markets,Labor Management and Relations,Labor Standards,Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies
A interação texto/imagem em duas traduções de Flicts para o inglês
Full text linkDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2013.Abstract : This study aims to investigate two translations of FLICTS, first children's book written by Ziraldo and first full-colored album for children produced in Brazil, with a view to discussing the different interactions between text and image that might occur within the translation of children's literature. Considered a landmark in Brazilian Children's Literature since its launch in 1969, its British version was translated by Silvia Caruana and published by the publishing house Roger Schlesinger in 1973 and its American English version was translated by Daniela Pinto, originally published by Melbooks in 1984 - subsequently also published by Editora Melhoramentos and commercialized in Brazil. The theoretical framework informing the study is based on the interface of Descriptive Translation Studies, Translation of Children's Literature and the Grammar of Visual Design. By the analyses of a multimodal corpus and a dossier about the history of this printed book, it was possible to note that the several changes along FLICTS publishing history have made up other possible readings on this work
REL22 Reinventing Energy Landscapes
Full text linkREL22 was an international summer school program launched by the Institute of Landscape Architecture of RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Frank Lohrberg, Silvia Beretta) together with the Master’s Programme in „Landscape Architecture and Landscape Heritage“ of Politecnico di Milano (Prof. Antonio Longo) andthe Master’s Programme in “Landscape Architecture” of TU Delft (Prof. Laura Cipriani). The aim was to formulate visions for the landscape transformation of the Rhenish Lignite District, the largest open-cast lignite mining area in Europe, located in the German region of North Rhine Westphalia
La spontaneità infantile di Silvia Mei
Full text linkThe interview, accompanied by an introduction and a selection of works, aims to identify the focal points of the poetics and pictorial production of the Sardinian artist Silvia Mei. The author who edited the interview also wanted to highlight the points of contact between the proposed works and a strand of twentieth-century modernist research that find a source of inspiration in children's drawings.L'intervista, corredata da un' introduzione e da una selezione di opere, si propone di individuare i punti focali della poetica e della produzione pittorica dell'artista di origine sarda Silvia Mei. L'autrice che ha curato l'intervista ha voluto inoltre mettere in luce i punti di contatto tra le opere proposte e un filone della ricerca modernista novecentesca che trova una fonte di ispirazione nei disegni infantili
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