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Secular Stagnation: A Long-Run Phenomenon, Short-Run Policies. The Case of the U.S. Economy

open access: yesStudies in Business and Economics
This study examines the persistent slowdown of the U.S. economy since 2007 and argues that it represents a secular stagnation: a structural form of slowdown growth, rather than a cyclical weakness.
Vlad Val, Popa Cristina Elena
doaj   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Athlete atypicity on the edge of human achievement: performances stagnate after the last peak, in 1988.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2010
The growth law for the development of top athletes performances remains unknown in quantifiable sport events. Here we present a growth model for 41351 best performers from 70 track and field (T&F) and swimming events and detail their characteristics over
Geoffroy Berthelot   +11 more
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Post-growth perspectives: Sustainable development based on efficiency and on sufficiency

open access: yesPublic Sector Economics, 2019
With the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement the general idea of sustainable development has been transformed into a policy concept with well-defined goals, indicators for measurement and an implementation process.
Rudi Kurz
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Meta Analyses and Controversy About Financialization, Growth and Stability: A look from post-transition countries of last decade

open access: yesECONOMICS, 2020
In the recent theory of economic growth, there are multiple explanations for the “downward trend of economic growth”, which is already happening during the past decade in developed and emerging markets. Almost all economists have avoided researching the “
Ristic Kristijan
doaj   +1 more source

Gender Equity in Rheumatology Research: Global Analysis of Authors

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective To investigate gender representation of authors in rheumatology research over the last decade. Methods Using metadata from original and review articles published between 2015 and 2024 in SCImago top two quartile (Q1, Q2) rheumatology journals, author gender was classified using two public databases.
Michael Girdwood   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source

The Reasons of Electoral Stagnation of the CHP in the Light of the 2015 Turkish Parliamentary Elections

open access: yesAkademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2018
It is the intention in this article to explain the electoral stagnation of the Republican People’s Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP) in the light of the 2015 parliamentary elections in Turkey.
Mehmet Bardakçı   +1 more
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Representative Percentile Curves of Physical Fitness From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood: The MoMo Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2020
Introduction: Monitoring of physical fitness in youth is important because physical fitness is a summative indicator of health. From a developmental and preventive perspective, physical fitness levels are relatively stable from childhood to early ...
Claudia Niessner   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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