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System failure? Exploring the interplay of fear of failure, competition, cooperation and sense of belonging in education in England and Flanders

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Fear of failure is damaging in a host of ways yet is rife in many schools. Drawing on self‐worth theory, we explore whether fear of academic failure is higher in education systems with features that increase students' experiences of competition. To do this, we compare two very different education systems: England, where, for instance, national
Carolyn Jackson, Mieke Van Houtte
wiley   +1 more source

Should informal sector be subsidised? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper explains the impact of output subsidy to the informal sector on urban unemployment and domestic factor income in a mobile capital model where urban formal wage is endogenous and the informal sector has global exposure.Informal sector ...
Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar
core   +1 more source

Health economic considerations for pharmacogenomic services in the United Kingdom: The Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics

open access: yes
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Dyfrig A. Hughes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Behind the Lighthouse Effect [PDF]

open access: yes
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike.
Boeri, Tito   +2 more
core  

Our World, Our Futures: A dialogic approach to environmental literacy and global citizenship education in primary schools in the Maldives and England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Environmental literacy and global citizenship education (GCE) are necessary to the development of a fairer, more peaceful and more sustainable world, but teachers frequently lack practical examples of their implementation in the classroom.
Claire Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2023
Chowdhury P   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Informal Sector and Women's Oppression [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1981
Manfred Bienefeld
openalex   +1 more source

Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal ...
Bargain, Olivier, Kwenda, Prudence
core  

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