The Crisis Impact on the Labour Market

The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of the current global economic crisis on the labour market, including the risk that the recession will be followed by a jobless recovery that contributes to a lost generation of young people in the workforce. The crisis affects different sectors in different ways, but the impact also varies according to age, gender, skills level and type of contract. Although it had a more significant effect on the private sector of the economy, the crisis’s impact on the broader public sector is also obvious. Migrants, both legal and illegal, are particularly vulnerable during crises because they are typically not being provided the same level of employment protection as native workers and hence they are the first to lose their jobs during an economic downturn.economic crisis, unemployment, young workers, migrant

A novel characterization of cubic Hamiltonian graphs via the associated quartic graphs

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a cubic graph to be Hamiltonian by analyzing Eulerian tours in certain spanning subgraphs of the quartic graph associated with the cubic graph by 1-factor contraction. This correspondence is most useful in the case when it induces a blue and red 2-factorization of the associated quartic graph. We use this condition to characterize the Hamiltonian I-graphs, a further generalization of generalized Petersen graphs. The characterization of Hamiltonian I-graphs follows from the fact that one can choose a 1-factor in any I-graph in such a way that the corresponding associated quartic graph is a graph bundle having a cycle graph as base graph and a fiber and the fundamental factorization of graph bundles playing the role of blue and red factorization. The techniques that we develop allow us to represent Cayley multigraphs of degree 4, that are associated to abelian groups, as graph bundles. Moreover, we can find a family of connected cubic (multi)graphs that contains the family of connected I-graphs as a subfamily

Anti-crisis Politics Assumed by Some Governs from Euro Area

Many governments from euro area continue to adopt the EU reglementations and policies anti crisis. Members of governments and parliaments of the euro area try to maintain liquidity in the economic system at this fragile moment of transition between crisis and growth and to develop exit strategies for winding down stimulus programmers once recovery has firmly taken root and to adopt medium-term measures to restore budgetary level. In this work are presented some of the most significant anti-crisis measures taken by some governments in the euro area. A comparative analysis for some representative countries from the euro area has been done in order to conclude that some anti-crisis measures had the desired effect, while others have side effects that required further actions

World economic crisis and its effects on the Romanian economy

Artykuł przedstawia negatywne efekty obecnego globalnego kryzysu, podkreślając jego wpływ na gospodarkę Rumunii. Powyższe konsekwencje są analizowane na licznych poziomach: handlowym, finansowym, kursów wymiany walut, inwestycji zagranicznych, jak również problemów bogactwa i równowagi. Ukazane zostały konkretne wyniki, bazujące na adekwatnych wskaźnikach ukazujących ich ewolucję w czasie. Podkreślono też przyczyny i konsekwencje zmian. Na zakończenie rozważono współczesną trajektorię rozwoju kraju, której punktem wyjścia jest kryzysThis paper presents the negative effects of the recent global crisis over all the countries of the world, emphasising its impact on the Romanian economy. Such unfavourable consequences are analysed at multiple levels: commercially, financially, the exchange rate, foreign direct investments or the wealth and balance issues. Concrete results are submitted, based on relevant indicators studied according to their evolution in time, stressing the causes and consequences that generated the related changes. Finally, a brief view of the subsequent trajectory of our country from the perspective of the crisis is considere

Women in Business Leadership

Along time, it was considered that women lack leadership qualities. Nowadays, gender diversityin the business environment and, especially, in the top management has become an increasinglydiscussed and analyzed topic, especially in the Western countries. Among those who were concerned about this border between female and male leadership, Hofstede- who, in his attempt to identify specific aspects of organizational culture, defined masculinitybased on the more arrogant or more modest behavior of the individuals. According to him,"masculine" means a proud behavior having the tendency of showing self-inner qualities while"feminine" is a modest, temperamental behavior. Masculinity does not necessarily mean women's disadvantage, but rather the inequality betweenwomen and men. Although efforts have been made to diminish these gaps, statistics show that thereare still differences in the leading position employment for women, as compared to the number ofmen in leadership positions

Linking National Competitiveness to Innovation at a Global Level in the Period 2019-2022

The rapid expansion of the globalization process worldwide has continuously shaped the post-Cold War world. It is said that the last three decades represented a period of global economic integration through financial, trade and informational channels. One of the effects of the vast spread of the globalization process was the emergence and expansion of a new type of competition, entitled hypercompetition. Characterised by intense and ceaseless change, innovative competitors and unsustainable competitive advantages, hypercompetition is practically met in all fields of activity. This is why innovation, a prerequisite of competitiveness, has become increasingly important as, in order to achieve superior economic performance, both countries and organizations should make significant efforts to constantly innovate. The goals of the paper are to briefly define the concepts of national competitiveness and innovation, and to illustrate their relationship in the case of countries in the period 2019-2022. The authors achieved the objectives of the paper through a qualitative research method. The paper provides a better understanding of the terms of national competitiveness and innovation. Its novelty is given by the fact that it demonstrates that national competitiveness and innovation are connected at a global level. In the period 2019-2022, developed capitalist countries, in their vast majority, dominated in an obvious manner the top of the world's most competitive and innovative countries. These results may help policymakers and experts who are in charge of designing national strategie

Radio Propagation Environment Analysis for Neutrino Radio Detection in Salt Mines

Abstract a We consider a neutrino large-scale radio Cherenkov observatory in a Romanian salt mine. We include propagation effects on the radio signal generated and make a threshold analysis, taking into account how the pulse couples to a realistic receiver and signal-to-noise ratio limiting situations

Laboratorio di traduzione audiovisiva e accessibilità. L’esperienza degli studenti

Silvio De Toma, Fabio Di Bari, Dalila Monachino, Simona Specchio and Roberta Valenzano describe their experience as graduate students of the Audiovisual Tanslation and Accessibility course at the University of Bari (2017-18). More specifically, they focus on the challenges they faced during the workshop on the subtitling and audio description of the docufilm Varichina - La vera storia della finta vita di Lorenzo De Santis (2016)

Bank Non-Performing Loans – a Panel Data-Based Analysis in European Context. Study Case: Germany

Humanity has recently been crossed by periods of great crises, and banks have had a particularly important role in keeping the economy afloat and in relaunching economic activities in these difficult periods. If we refer to the stability, health and efficiency of the banking system, one of the important factors mentioned in the specialized literature is the size of Non-Performing Loans. The present work carries out a time and space analysis of this indicator for the EU member countries, observing its behavior during major crises. Thus, in the distribution of European countries there was a decrease in the median level of the indicator and in its variability, but also an increase in the predominance of countries with low non-performing loans ratio. At the same time, the case of Germany is studied, with the strong and weak points of its banking system and the key determinants of the rate of non-performing loans, for the main commercial banks in Germany are identified, using a panel data regression model. The results revealed that the indicator-level is negatively and significantly correlated with the loan-deposit ratio and the degree of financial profitability and positively and significantly correlated with the total value of assets and the degree of capital adequacy. From this emerges the need to promote policies to stimulate the prudent behavior of banks in granting loans, in order to ensure the stability and health of the banking system in European countries

Does direction of results of abstracts submitted to scientific conferences on drug addiction predict full publication?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Data from scientific literature show that about 63% of abstracts presented at biomedical conferences will be published in full. Some studies have indicated that full publication is associated with the direction of results (publication bias). No study has looked into the occurrence of publication bias in the field of addiction.</p> <p>Objectives</p> <p>To investigate whether the significance or direction of results of abstracts presented at the major international scientific conference on addiction is associated with full publication</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The conference proceedings of the US Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), were handsearched for abstracts of randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials that evaluated interventions for prevention, rehabilitation and treatment of drug addiction in humans (years searched 1993–2002). Data regarding the study designs and outcomes reported were extracted. Subsequent publication in peer reviewed journals was searched in MEDLINE and EMBASE databases, as of March 2006.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Out of 5919 abstracts presented, 581 met the inclusion criteria; 359 (62%) conference abstracts had been published in a broad variety of peer reviewed journals (average time of publication 2.6 years, SD +/- 1.78). The proportion of published studies was almost the same for randomized controlled trials (62.4%) and controlled clinical trials (59.5%) while studies that reported positive results were significantly more likely to be published (74.5%) than those that did not report statistical results (60.9%.), negative or null results (47.1%) and no results (38.6%), Abstracts reporting positive results had a significantly higher probability of being published in full, while abstracts reporting null or negative results were half as likely to be published compared with positive ones (HR = 0.48; 95%CI 0.30–0.74)</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Clinical trials were the minority of abstracts presented at the CPDD; we found evidence of possible publication bias in the field of addiction, with negative or null results having half the likelihood of being published than positive ones.</p