2009 March | pratichesociali

I lavoratori temporanei è più facile che passino alla stabilità che alla disoccupazione (ma l'Italia non è compresa nella ricerca) »

Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers’ Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract
Vanessa Gash
Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, School of Social Sciences, Kantorovich Building, Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Email: vanessa.gash@manchester.ac.uk
This article analyses the transitions of temporary workers to the standard employment contract [...]

March 31, 2009 | Posted in Research, Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

Classi sociali e scelte educative: uno studio tedesco »

Why are Working-class Children Diverted from Universities?—An Empirical Assessment of the Diversion Thesis
Rolf Becker and Anna E. Hecken
Rolf Becker (to whom correspondence should be addressed), Department of Education and Culture, General Secretary, CH-8510 Frauenfeld, Switzerland.
Anna E. Hecken, Department of Education and Culture, General Secretary, CH-8510 Frauenfeld, Switzerland. Email: anna.hecken@tg.ch
Correspondence: Email: rolf.becker@edu.unibe.ch
In [...]

March 31, 2009 | Posted in Research, Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

Il progetto di Ichino piace al Sole 24 Ore »

FLEXSECURITY: ICHINO FA SCUOLA
Nota non firmata nella pagina dei commenti de il Sole 24 Ore, 26 marzo 2009
Approda in Senato il progetto di legge di Pietro Ichino sulla flexsecurity. Ha il pregio di proporre assunzioni a tempo indeterminato come standard generale di ingresso in azienda; ha l’ambizione di regolare una volta [...]

March 30, 2009 | Posted in Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

La generazione "sandwich" »

Caught in the caring trap between kids and parents
Three million Britons are supporting their children as well as parents who need long-term care. As people live longer, the number facing that responsibility is set to triple within 30 years. So should families bear it alone, or should the state help? Gaby [...]

March 30, 2009 | Posted in Health, Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

Troppi enti locali »

IL PAESE DEI MICRO-COMUNI
di Vittorio Emiliani 16.04.2008
il testo riprodotto è tratto da www.lavoce.info
Siamo i soli in Europa ad aumentare organismi comunali e provinciali anziché ridurli di numero, e di costo. Le province, accusate da decenni di pratica inutilità, sono balzate da una novantina a oltre cento. I comuni, che nel 1951 [...]

March 30, 2009 | Posted in Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

Sulla misurazione delle attività delle pubbliche amministrazioni »

La riforma Brunetta ed il nodo della misurazione
Paolo Crugnola – 18/03/2009
tratto dal sito www.benecomune.net
Nei giorni scorsi è stato definitivamente approvato dal Senato il disegno di legge Brunetta. La legge delega il Governo a realizzare una serie di decreti legislativi che daranno concreta attuazione ai principi di riforma della Pubblica Amministrazione di [...]

March 30, 2009 | Posted in Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

Le trappole del welfare: una testimonianza e alcune proposte »

Persistent Poverty
by Ebony’s Pearls
I was homeless with small children once, after a divorce, and I briefly allowed myself to get sucked into the welfare system. I got out of it as quickly as I could, but it was very hard work. Once you’re mired in welfare, it’s very, very hard to get [...]

March 29, 2009 | Posted in Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

Disuguaglianze nei risultati educativi: i casi italiano e spagnolo »

Persistent Inequalities? Expansion of Education and Class Inequality in Italy and Spain (Ballarino, G., Bernardi, F., Requena, M., Schadee, H.)
The paper analyses inequalities in educational outcomes (IEO) by class of family of origin in Italy and Spain for five 10-year cohorts born from 1920 to 1969, using the cumulative logit (ordinal [...]

March 28, 2009 | Posted in Research, Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

La dipendenza dai percorsi di assistenza: uno studio norvegese (e da noi?) »

The Dynamics of Social Assistance Recipiency: Empirical Evidence from Norway (Hansen, H.-T.)
There is considerable concern about long-term recipiency of social assistance in many western countries today. Social assistance is intended to be a temporary solution for unforeseen individual problems, but there are worries that long-term recipiency of social assistance may lead [...]

March 28, 2009 | Posted in Research, Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »

Deglobalizzazione? »

The integration of the world economy is in retreat on almost every front
THE economic meltdown has popularised a new term: deglobalisation. Some critics of capitalism seem happy about it—like Walden Bello, a Philippine economist, who can perhaps claim to have coined the word with his book, “Deglobalisation, Ideas for a New [...]

March 28, 2009 | Posted in Social Topics, by pratichesociali | Read More »