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Trading labor for experience: The role of unpaid internships in shaping Active Labor Market Policies in Ireland since the Great Recession

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 311-336, Summer 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 759-782, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The Catalan case in south‐western Europe offers us the opportunity to take a detailed look at the impact a lowering of the interest rate may have had on the poor of a specific area. It is vital to examine how property rights operated in specific contexts, given the close relationship between land and credit markets.
Rosa Congost   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language in the process of labour market rationalisation: A sociohistorical approach across twentieth‐century Spain

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 115-135, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This article analyses the role of linguistic skills in the process of defining professional classifications in Spain during 1919–1980. The aim is to determine the social evaluation of the skills involved. To retrace the classifications, a total of 114 official documents were examined, establishing a chronological division into three major ...
Amado Alarcón Alarcón   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID‐19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela–Brasil

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 37-56, June 2022., 2022
Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
wiley   +1 more source

A Latin American Casanova? Sex, Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in the Life and Writings of Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816)

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 22-41, March 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT This paper looks from a gender perspective at the elusive figure, complex personality and myth of Francisco de Miranda, enlightened traveller and Precursor of Latin American independence. By analysing Miranda's personal archive as his own carefully crafted creation, it pursues three closely connected issues insufficiently interpreted in ...
Mónica Bolufer
wiley   +1 more source

Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 341-355, February 2022., 2022
A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. Abstract Tropical tree species span a range of life‐history strategies within a fast–slow continuum. The position of a species within this continuum is thought to reflect a negative relationship between growth and storage, with fast‐growing species allocating ...
Caroline Signori‐Müller   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioreduction of precious and heavy metals by Candida species under oxidative stress conditions. [PDF]

open access: yesMicrob Biotechnol, 2019
Proposed mechanism through which Candida species synthesize NPs of gold, silver and lead, as well as mercury drops. Summary The aim of the present work was to evaluate whether Candida species can reduce both precious and toxic pure metals from the respective molecular ions.
Moreno A   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Anglo‐Spanish Enlightenment: Joseph Shepherd, an English ‘ilustrado' in Valladolid

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 43-60, March 2020., 2020
Abstract This article studies Joseph Shepherd and his role in Anglo‐Spanish cultural exchange in the last decades of the eighteenth century, at the dawn of Anglophilia in Spain. Though largely unknown, this Catholic recusant, established in Spain as rector of the Royal English College of St Alban in order to continue the training of English priests ...
Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo
wiley   +1 more source

El oficio de canterero en San Luis Potosí. Dinamismos y erosiones en la transmisión de saberes

open access: yesRevista Pueblos y Fronteras Digital
En este artículo se analizan los saberes del oficio de canterero en relación con un contexto histórico, social y territorial específico. El ejido Escalerillas, en el municipio de San Luis Potosí, es una comunidad donde este oficio se ha transmitido al ...
Camilo Contreras Delgado
doaj   +1 more source

Subordinación remunerada y autonomía económica: modalidades de especialización laboral de africanos y sus descendientes libres en la ciudad de La Plata, siglo XVII

open access: yesFronteras de la Historia, 2020
El ordenamiento de la mano de obra llevado a cabo por Francisco de Toledo en el virreinato del Perú (1574) impuso para los africanos y sus descendientes libres la obligación de asentarse con amos conocidos, bajo subordinación remunerada, con el objetivo ...
Dina Camacho
doaj   +3 more sources

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