For a Typology of Participation in Community Artistic Practices: the experience of three theater groups in Brazil and Portugal

The article aims to address the participatory dimension as a central feature in contemporary artistic creation, deepening the relationship between processes and results. It has as a starting point the practices of three theater groups in Brazil and Portugal, articulating them with the literature on community artistic practices and civic and political participation. From empirical data, based on participant and non-participant observation and gathering of field notes, structural dimensions of the qualities of the participation experiences in artistic processes were identified, namely: forms of participation of communities (non-professional); dynamics of creative processes; core themes; relationship between professionals and communities; and spaces of creation and presentation

WAGE DIFFERENTIALS BY FIRM SIZE: THE EFFICIENCY WAGE TEST IN A DEVOLOPING COUNTRY

Using data from the Brazilian Labor Monthly Survey (PME/ IBGE) for the years of 2006 and 2007, the paper investigates if the wage differential by firm size in Brazil can be explained by the predictions of the Efficiency Wage Theory. It is adopted a Switching Regression Model to estimate if large size companies pay a higher wage premium for dispended labor effort, as compared to smaller enterprises. The results proved the EW predictions. Besides the positive relation between effort and wage differentials by firm size, the results also showed that such wage differences favors larger firms, as compared to smaller ones, because they tend to remunerate better more skilled employees with long term contracts.

Para uma tipologia da participação nas práticas artísticas comunitárias: a experiência de três grupos teatrais no Brasil e Portugal

A presença da dimensão participativa nos processos criativos é uma característica central na criação artística contemporânea, mas a relação entre processos e resultados é complexa e merece ser aprofundada. Este artigo, sustentado na revisão da literatura e na observação de experiências de práticas artísticas comunitárias referentes a três grupos teatrais no Brasil e Portugal, tenta dar um contributo para essa discussão. A articulação da literatura sobre processos artísticos de criação coletiva e sobre participação cívica e política com os dados empíricos sustenta um exercício integrador que identifica dimensões estruturantes da qualidade das experiências de participação em processos artísticos, a saber: formas de participação das comunidades (participantes não profissionais); dinâmicas dos processos criativos; temas basilares; relação profissionais e comunidades (não profissionais); e espaços de criação e apresentação.

WAGE DIFFERENTIALS BY FIRM SIZE: THE EFFICIENCY WAGE TEST IN A DEVOLOPING COUNTRY

Using data from the Brazilian Labor Monthly Survey (PME/ IBGE) for the years of 2006 and 2007, the paper investigates if the wage differential by firm size in Brazil can be explained by the predictions of the Efficiency Wage Theory. It is adopted a Switching Regression Model to estimate if large size companies pay a higher wage premium for dispended labor effort, as compared to smaller enterprises. The results proved the EW predictions. Besides the positive relation between effort and wage differentials by firm size, the results also showed that such wage differences favors larger firms, as compared to smaller ones, because they tend to remunerate better more skilled employees with long term contracts

Editorial: youth civic and political participation and citizenship education in the mediterranean: lessons from the arab spring

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PUBLIC SCHOOL EFFICIENCY USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS: AN EMPIRICAL APPLICATION FOR BRAZIL

This paper studies the educational efficiency as determined only by the variables directly controlled by the school, isolated from the influence of other environmental characteristics, such as student's socioeconomic status, that might influence efficiency as well. An alternative application of Simar and Wilson (2007) two-stage DEA's approach is adopted using data from public schools in the basic education level from the Northeast Region of Brazil. The results have showed that the rank of efficiency becomes much more homogeneous after isolating from the effect of environmental variables as compared to the rank produced from a simple one-stage DEA