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Training funds and the incidence of training : the case of Mauritius
Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter F. Orazem, Sawkut Rojid, Milan Vodopivec, 2016, original scientific article

Abstract: Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital-intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are liquidity constrained. If firms are not liquidity constrained, the fund could lower training investments. Using an administrative data set on the Mauritius training fund, we find that the firms most likely to train pay more in taxes than they gain in subsidies. The smallest firms receive more benefits than they pay in taxes.
Keywords: izobraževanje, usposabljanje, splošna znanja, specifična znanja, financiranje izobraževanja, training, general skills, firm-specific skills, training fund, externality, cross-subsidy, tax
Published in RUP: 08.08.2016; Views: 2654; Downloads: 127
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Metaphors in political discourse from a cross-cultural perspective
Silva Bratož, 2014, original scientific article

Abstract: The paper focuses on various ways in which metaphors in political discourse reflect the cultural and linguistic environments from which they emerge. It discusses conceptual metaphors and their linguistic realisations in popular pre-election discourse in English, German, and three Euro-Mediterranean languages (i. e. Slovene, Italian and Croatian). One of the main aims of the paper is to present a contrastive analysis model which combines quantitative and qualitative methods on the one hand, and top-down and bottom-up approaches to metaphor research on the other. Reference will be made to the results of a case study based on the contrastive analysis of a corpus of pre-election articles related to the American elections in 2008 which has been undertaken to validate the proposed model. Itwill be argued that while the selected languages conceptualise elections in similar ways, there are also significant variations which have cultural implications.
Keywords: konceptualne metafore, predvolilni diskurz, kontrastivna analiza, medkulturne razlike, conceptual metaphors, pre-election discourse, cross-cultural differences, contrastive analysis
Published in RUP: 14.10.2015; Views: 3966; Downloads: 105
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