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Abstract Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs), which include state‐funded apprenticeships, have long been used as a way of encouraging unemployed youth into skilled and semiskilled trades. However, new forms of “nonstandard” employment are now dominating young people's experience of the labor market.
Jonathan Arlow
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Abstract The literature on regional resilience often neglects the timing of recessions and simply uses national cycles. Region‐specific cycles and turning points might bias the results, however, and affect the choice of regions to target with policies. This paper investigates the geography and determinants of regional resilience with a regional turning
Hasan Engin Duran, Ugo Fratesi
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Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans
Abstract In this paper, we study the short‐run evolution of political trust during the recent covid‐19 pandemic using survey data for a sample of young individuals living in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. In particular, we analyze whether pre‐pandemic perceptions and experiences of citizens about various dimensions of local governments and ...
Anna Bottasso +2 more
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Macroeconomy and macropartisanship: Economic conditions and party identification
Abstract “It's the economy stupid”—is the phrase that captures the ubiquity of economics in determining election outcomes. Nevertheless, while several studies support the premise of economic voting, a constant critique of valence economic models is that partisan bias contaminates voters' economic perceptions, thus invaliding any independent effect of ...
Martin Okolikj +2 more
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Can defined contribution pensions survive the pandemic? The Chilean case
Abstract The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic threatens the viability of Chile’s defined contribution (DC) pension system, undermining its financial foundation and exposing its vulnerability to political risk. The COVID‐19 crisis led to the approval of three rounds of emergency withdrawals of 10 per cent of pension savings (as of April 2021).
Stephen J. Kay, Silvia Borzutzky
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Can public spending boost private consumption?
Abstract One of the most debated issues in modern macroeconomics relates to the behaviour of private consumption in response to an increase in government spending. Recent empirical studies have found a positive relationship between these two macroeconomic fundamentals.
Stylianos Asimakopoulos +2 more
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Bad parrhesia: the limits of cynicism in the public sphere
This paper examines the limits of Cynical parrhesia. Based on fieldwork with artist‐activists in post‐recession Dublin, I recount their fraught efforts to use adventurous artistic expression to provoke a critical awakening in an audience of strangers, who instead respond with derision. My focus is thus on a narrow but prevalent feature of artists’ work
Natalie Morningstar
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Summary The Covid‐19 pandemic has highlighted vulnerabilities in the agri‐food system and wider society. The elderly, in particular, have been overrepresented in intensive care units. The resulting economic crisis and accelerating geopolitical shifts will change the agri‐food system, but it is unclear how this will play out in detail.
Krijn Poppe
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La coyuntura económica internacional y sus perspectivas, a finales de 2001 [PDF]
Las principales economías mundiales vienen registrando desde mediados de 2000 una intensa fase de desaceleración del crecimiento que ha hecho que en la segunda mitad de 2001 algunas hayan entrado ya en recesión o se encuentren al borde de la misma.
Carrasco, Nicolás +2 more
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Análisis de la relación entre la estrategia de diversificación y el desempeño de la empresa: el rol del ciclo económico [PDF]
[EN] The relationship between corporate strategies and firm performance has been one of the key debates in the discipline of Strategic Management. There are studies that analyse the moderating role that certain variables may play in that relationship ...
García Muiña, Fernando Enrique +2 more
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