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We revisit the role of government size and labour market institutions on macroeconomic volatility, for the case of the eurozone since the adoption of the euro, which can provide a more homogeneous setting to test for macroeconomic volatility. The behaviour of the volatility of inflation looked rather different from that of GDP. Neither government size nor labour market institutions seemed to affect the volatility of GDP, except when demographic factors were included into the estimated equation; whereas lower volatility of inflation was related to a lower share of non-prime age workers and lower wage volatility.  

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and its negative effect on economic activity, a decrease in remittances was expected. However, on the contrary, remittances have increased in countries like Mexico. Using a fixed-effect model with information at the state level, this study finds evidence that the increase in COVID-19 cases was associated with a higher level of remittances to Mexican states, allowing some degree of insurance against the pandemic. However, remittances did not respond to the decrease in employment caused by the pandemic in local economies. A portion of the observed increases in remittances during the pandemic can be explained by factors at the national level.

Pets are an important part of many peoples’ lives, and provide mental, physical and emotional benefits. However, the costs of pet ownership have received little attention. We investigate the association between pet ownership and wage income using data from the 2018 General Social Survey. We hypothesise that pet ownership may negatively influence income by lowering labour mobility and positively influence income by garnering valuable psychosocial attributes. We analyse interactions between pet ownership and education, pet ownership and housing tenure, and pet ownership and race to further investigate the potential labour mobility channel. Overall, we find that pet ownership decreases wage income and that these negative effects are larger for groups where mobility effects are likely higher.

This article investigates training in sports and argues (and demonstrates) that training (game- theoretically) works exactly as doping do. That is, the Nash equilibrium is, under reasonable assumptions, a Prisoner’s Dilemma outcome. Furthermore, several other performance improving categories within sport are examined, and proven to behave similarly. Finally, a link to general competitive economic activity is examined and proven NOT (necessarily) to have similar characteristics. The article also discusses (initially) the Prisoner’s Dilemma game and its lack of a sensible definition. Such a definition is proposed, although this proposition is not considered the main finding in the paper.

This current work is part of a research project called “Bodies, education and leisure time in the cons- truction of the processes of territorial identities. The Northern Patagonia Andean region 1884-1945”. The nationalist discourses generated in the schools during the first decades if the 20th Century, acqui- red a special meaning in the National Territories of Patagonia, due to the fact that here the Chilean and indigenous population was in the majority and also because all the eastern strip was a frontier zone, at a time when the state discourse prioritized the defence of territorial sovereignty. At the same time, discourses about the body were oriented to disciplining and controlling corporeal/ bodily practices in the context of the formation of a national identity. In order to reach these aims, in addition to the actions put in practice at schools a number of civil society actions were added through a comprehensive scheme of activities in a non-educational environment but with identical strategies, that is the standardisation and unification (?) of behaviours. Our aim is to investigate how the policies of the state and civil society influence the way in which bodily practices operate. With this aim we have analysed books on the history of the main stream schools and official docu- ments, including the memories of and conclusions drawn by members of the organizations Friends of the National Parks Association2[1] and the Social Centre Ayekan-Ruca in San Carlos de Bariloche3[2].

The work describes some challenges in the professional training of the Physical Education Teachers of the Universitary Regional Center of Bariloche, dependent of the National University of the Comahue, Argentina, aimed at meeting the demands of the natural environment. This career includes curricular activities that promote the corporal development and mobility from culturally relevant corporal practices in natural means: environment that has a motivating potential con- tributes to the integral formation from a transdisciplinary point of view, and promotes the autonomy of the individuals with exceptionalities in accordance with the constant decision making needs. The natural means offer ample motor possibilities that surpass stereotyped movements, favor the creative use of the body, and allow new settings for pedagogical intervention. The activities of Mountaineering have been consolidated as curricular contents, giving to this universitary educational training particular characte- ristics in close relation with the region.

Out of our own experience, we have observed that the interests and the demands for changes towards the breaks happen during daily conflicts, and that the diagrammed solutions generally do no foster the desired impacts. During the breaks, the curricular actions seem to impose themselves to the several mediations associ- ated to the different environments and actors implicated in the educational issues. This tendency favours the naturalization of the events as from which the daily teachers’ tasks are developed. We are cooperating on the creation of institutional projects that allow us to assume the breaks as a space to educate through leisure. We share de debates during the teachers’ working meetings, with the objective of pleading the usual meanings. We are trying to find out the principles that oriented their historical composition and try to get through the school’s biographies in order to create a collective proposal for sustainable changes. This redefinition takes us to a revision that exceeds our subject, it directs us to scrutinize the dispositives and the suitable mechanisms for each school.

When a teacher of physical education during his class invites his pupils to play with the alone purpose of amusing itself, the pupils find, at least, two challenges that must resolve in a few seconds: to identify the sincerity of the teacher in the invitation and to decide with his companions to be raised or not to the offer. The difficulty he seems to be the teacher, since the pupils, in situations of game voluntarily initi- ated by them, agree rapidly and almost imperceptibly in taking a gesture, a word as an invitation to play. Simply to be able to play with our pupils, the teachers we will have to begin understanding them playing. The understanding between the players is the topic to treating in this article, and has direct relation with the task of articulating the empirical work (the comprehension of how the players interpret what they do and say while they are said playing) of the investigation qualitative that this being elaborated to be presented as doctoral thesis, with the need to construct a theoretical referential nest that supports the reflections (in this case we put in tension the ideas of Breton Him and of Wittgenstein local respect that the gestures and the words occupy in the understanding).

This paper presents a study in relation to physical education, sports and sports institutions. More specifically, we will address the teaching of sports with emphasis on childhood and adolescence. We have looked into the discourses and practices of two central actors (coaches and physical education teachers) as well as into the ideas and concepts that coexist in their practice, and the modes of relationship between them. The purpose of this work is to find out the meanings and sense that these actors give to teaching, the reasons for their actions and the “sport knowledge” they put into practice. It also inquires into the relationships that exist in the macro institutional level, the autonomy or dependence on them, and the impact they have on the logic of teaching in the sports institutions.

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