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An overview about fashion retailing sector: UK versus Spain
2012
Within the international context, fashion retailers have suffered the most in the economic downturn in the last years. Nevertheless, the historically high-margin fashion sectors composite net profit margin was still the highest of all the product groups. Based on the importance of fashion retail sector for the international economy in general, this paper examines the international retailing situation showing sales data between most important retailers around the world in general and Europe in particular. Specifically, this paper offers an overview on fashion retailing sector in the international context in order to study the position of this sector in the international crisis context. Due t…
Mancession to Shecession: Higher Education, Employment, and Gender across Two Economic Recessions
2021
A distance; International audience; In this paper we compare the longitudinal labour market activity of Canadian women and men across the spans of the 2008 ‘great’ recession and the 2020 pandemic recession to determine differential impacts by gender and education on labour market engagement, income, and family household tasks in these two time periods.
Alle radici della «nuova questione urbana»: disagio e periferie nelle città italiane
2021
Questo capitolo si concentra sulle città e sul disagio sociale: un passaggio ineludibile lungo il percorso d’analisi fra disagio e comportamento elettorale che il volume affronta. Si tratta di un tema, peraltro, che negli ultimi anni ha acquisito rilievo crescente e contribuisce a giustificare la scelta delle città come terreno di analisi.Nel capitolo, un primo quadro di insieme è stato dedicato alla analisi delle aree di disagio, identificate in termini assoluti e relativi, nelle città metropolitane italiane. Le aree di disagio sono poi state messe in relazione con la distanza geografica dal centro, una definizione di perifericità più legata alla lontananza fra le zone storiche della città…
Regional Policy Lessons from Finland
2005
The Finnish economy and society has long been dominated by primary production. Post-war economic development was rapid and welfare gaps between the much more developed economies and Finland narrowed and were even partly reversed. Rapid economic expansion together with structural change has had the effect of centralizing both economic activity and population. The trend has been towards the southern and central regions where the metropolitan area of Helsinki and most of the other larger towns and urban centres are located. Together with vigorous technological progress in agriculture and forestry the rapid urbanization and industrialization of the 1960s and 1970s the fastest in Europe altered …
Drivers of CO2 emissions in the former Soviet Union: A country level IPAT analysis from 1990 to 2010
2013
There are a small number of countries that have managed to decrease emissions over the last two decades e most of them emerged from the FSU (former Soviet Union ). CO2 emissions for these countries combined have decreased by 35% between 1990 and 2010, while global emissions increased by 44%. Most studies investigate the FSU as a single block ignoring the significant and persistent diversity among countries in the region. This study is the first providing detailed country by country analyses determining factors for changes in post-Soviet republics by applying a disaggregated version of the commonly used (IPAT) index decomposition analysis including energy intensity, affluence industrializati…
Structural insights into M2O-Al2O3-WO3 (M = Na, K) system by electron diffraction tomography.
2015
TheM2O–Al2O3–WO3(M= alkaline metals) system has attracted the attention of the scientific community because some of its members showed potential applications as single crystalline media for tunable solid-state lasers. These materials behave as promising laser host materials due to their high and continuous transparency in the wide range of the near-IR region. A systematic investigation of these phases is nonetheless hampered because it is impossible to produce large crystals and only in a few cases a pure synthetic product can be achieved. Despite substantial advances in X-ray powder diffraction methods, structure investigation on nanoscale is still challenging, especially when the sample i…
Union representation and prevention of occupational risks during the crisis: impact and limits
2019
La investigación que presentamos estudia el impacto de la intervención sindical en materia de salud laboral, en lo que se refiere tanto a la gestión preventiva y creación de una cultura participativa como en los procesos de vigilancia y control de las condiciones de trabajo. A tal efecto, se han consultado las principales encuestas nacionales e internacionales sobre gestión de riesgos laborales en las empresas, analizando los datos más relevantes en base a modelos de regresión logística y lineal, lo que ha permitido constatar que la representación sindical de los trabajadores en la empresa (generalista y especializada) correlaciona positivamente con el desarrollo de las principales dimensio…
Education in a crisis. Italy within southern Europe: Trends and the way forward
2016
El artículo analiza la reacción peculiar del sistema educativo italiano a la reciente crisis, en comparación con países dotados de un «modelo de bienestar Mediterráneo», como Grecia, Portugal y España. Analizando los principales indicadores estadísticos nacionales de los sistemas educativos –acceso a la educación, éxito escolar, equidad e inclusión de alumnos inmigrantes– se ha profundizado en las dificultades, pero también en la resiliencia del sistema italiano de educación. El análisis permite concluir que las prioridades en términos de reforma son: completar el proceso de autonomía escolar, completar el plan de digitalización, dotando todas las escuelas de TICs actualizadas, cambiar la j…
Economic Crisis, worker’s health and social protection
2023
Objective The aim of this paper is to analyse the individual and contextual factorsthat could affect worker’s mental and physical health during economic downturn.This paper fills the gap in the literature that addresses the link between crisis,physical and mental health.Methods Bivariate, machine learning method and multi-level regression analysiswere performed to explore the determinants of European Worker’s mental andphysical health. Machine learning method is dedicated to the predictors ofmental and physical health problems based on a classification algorithm,random forest model. Since the respondents of our data come from differentEuropean countries, the database has a hierarchical form…
GREAT ECONOMISTS` APPROACH ON THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY
2012
The current financial crisis triggered in 2007 has affected the economy of all countries in different ways, from the economic and social point of view, with serious consequences at the national level, as well as regional and international one. This paper proposes to identify the new direction to interpret the effect of current financial crisis above the economic and social process; also, we try to identify the steady of research in financial crisis problem.