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Interpreting employment policy change in Italy since the 1990s: nature and dynamics [PDF]

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This paper analyzes the evolution of employment policy in Italy, focusing on the period from the mid-1990s to the economic crisis started in 2008. Two aspects of the policy change process are taken into consideration: its nature and its dynamics.
Patrik Vesan, Stefano Sacchi
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‘The best year’/‘I struggled with everything’: Widening participation experiences of pandemic online learning

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Improving retention and graduate outcomes for students from a widening participation (WP) background is key to achieving more equitable outcomes. However, evidence suggests WP students experienced different challenges than their peers during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Wilhelmiina Toivo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Would Declining Exit Rates from Welfare Provide Evidence of Welfare Dependence in Homogeneous Environments? [PDF]

open access: yes
Negative duration dependence in the exit rate from social assistance is an important issue addressed in the dynamic welfare participation literature.
Dalit Contini, Nicola Negri
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Improving the learning experience in an undergraduate course on microbial metabolism by using an illustrated story

open access: yesBiochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 131-141, March/April 2025.
Abstract In the classroom, metabolism is often approached and received as a mundane exercise in memorization. Teaching metabolism also faces the challenge of negative perceptions that can impede learning. We sought to improve the learning experience in an undergraduate lecture course on microbial metabolism by implementing an illustrated story that ...
James B. McKinlay, Katherine Kearns
wiley   +1 more source

Benefit Corporations: The Moral Legitimacy That Requires More Rules

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Italian for‐profit firms convert to Benefit Corporation status and how they navigate the ensuing hybridization. Survey data from 118 companies are interpreted through a pragmatic and moral legitimacy lens. Results show that the main trigger is pragmatic legitimacy: managers seek to strengthen trust with internal and ...
Laura Rocca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DOES THE EXCHANGE RATE PASS-THROUGH INTO PRICES CHANGE WHEN INFLATION TARGETING IS ADOPTED? THE PERUVIAN CASE STUDY BETWEEN 1994 AND 2007 [PDF]

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This paper analyzes whether the exchange rate pass-through into prices changed when the inflation targeting scheme was adopted in Peru. Firstly, a small dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is simulated, which shows that adopting this scheme ...
Gabriel Rodríguez   +2 more
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