Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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The ideology of religious stigmatization: imposed identities as a tool for constructing the national community in Kazakhstan. [PDF]
Duzbayev T +4 more
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ABSTRACT Environment‐recruitment relationships often break down over time. This can occur because of spurious results from testing numerous environmental variables in the original analyses or from relative changes in the importance of specific environmental drivers over time.
Hannah M. Murphy +4 more
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Digital linguistic sovereignty and Kazakh language policy in the digital environment. [PDF]
Zharkynbekova S +4 more
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ABSTRACT Kazakhstan has emerged as a non‐traditional destination for international students through the expansion of English‐medium instruction and government‐funded scholarship schemes. This convergent mixed‐methods study examines how degree‐seeking international students from non‐Commonwealth of Independent States countries adapt to academic ...
Kymbat Yessenbekova, Anas Hajar
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Clustering All‐Cause Mortality Data: A Review
Summary Mortality data are relevant to demography, public health and actuarial science; such data are high‐dimensional, making broad patterns difficult to identify. Clustering is increasingly used to reveal such patterns, yet a review of its application to all‐cause mortality with a focus on country‐level data is lacking.
Pedro Menezes de Araújo +2 more
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Uncertain Borders in the Post-Soviet Space
Anna Colin Lebedev +2 more
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Investigating the persistence of infant mortality and the Matthew effect in post-Soviet countries: evidence from nonlinear and Fourier-based time-series methods. [PDF]
Gasim N +4 more
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Different paths of the second transition in the post-Soviet world: a political-economic analysis [PDF]
The first generation of economic reforms in the post-Soviet countries mostly resulted in formation of sustainable inefficient institutional equilibria, what may be described as the transition from “plan” to “clan”.
Libman, Alexander
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Unseen Voices: Exam‐Oriented Art Education in China and Its Impact on Artistic Subjectivity
Abstract This study examines an exam‐oriented art education in China, highlighting how art‐training centres enforce standardised evaluation criteria and prioritise technical mastery over creative freedom. I draw from personal experience to analyse how such systems shape art examinees' artistic development and marginalise their voices, providing a ...
Jiayi Guo
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