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Abstract Fear of failure is damaging in a host of ways yet is rife in many schools. Drawing on selfâworth 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
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Should informal sector be subsidised? [PDF]
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
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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
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Determinants of retirement of formal and informal sector workers in Mexico: the role of health and economic security. [PDF]
Lee Z, Aguila E, Wong R.
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Behind the Lighthouse Effect [PDF]
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
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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
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Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India. [PDF]
Chowdhury P +3 more
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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa [PDF]
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
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