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[7] viXra:1812.0324 [pdf] submitted on 2018-12-20 05:15:58
Authors: Andrei Lucian Dragoi
Comments: 4 Pages.
This is my first press release as a whistleblower from September 11th 2018 (on my checkpoint results as a whistleblower fighting against the high level of corruption from Romania, a corruption with significant repercussions on children with disabilities). This paper version 1.1 is written in Romanian and contains updates from November 2018.
Category: Social Science
[6] viXra:1812.0221 [pdf] submitted on 2018-12-12 10:19:27
Authors: Jeffrey Joseph Wolynski
Comments: 5 Pages. 5 references, a "B-" paper
: A short overview of how academics control each other and some flaws induced by too much identification, control and discipline. It is argued and researched that too much of all three latter concepts can counteract the stated goals of teams in large organizations. In fact, too much identification, control and discipline reduces quality, stamps out creativity and decreases employee involvement. This can lead to peer review reinforced group think and the overall stalling of progress in science and of sharing scientific discoveries. As well it shows that resistance to discoveries is rooted in cultural norms and shared misguided definitions.
Category: Social Science
[5] viXra:1812.0191 [pdf] submitted on 2018-12-10 07:24:30
Authors: Erez Cohen
Comments: 19 Pages.
The paper portrays public policy steps taken
in order to reduce housing prices, formulated and
implemented in Israel 2008-2015, and analyzes them in
light of the locally prevalent economic worldview and
governance structure. Analysis of the policy shows that in
order to understand the justifications for its formulation it
should be viewed through the positivist worldview that
focuses on the subjective considerations of policy shapers
that neutralize its objective-normative efficacy. The paper
stresses the impact of the country's governance structure at
each point in time on the type of policy chosen and
determines that a democratic but weak and unstable
governance structure leads to the formulation and
implementation of a positivist policy reflecting politicians'
narrow interests of reelection. In contrast, stable
democratic rule supported by a sound majority of a single
ruling party can easily sustain public policy that expresses
the normative approach, reflecting social values as defined
by politicians.
Category: Social Science
[4] viXra:1812.0190 [pdf] submitted on 2018-12-10 07:27:29
Authors: Erez Cohen
Comments: 16 Pages.
The rapid development of Israel’s system of higher education in recent years has led to a sharp rise in the
number of students, the establishment of new institutions certified to award degrees, and legislation and policy
changes. The evolving circumstances are explored in the current article, which follows the sources, causes, and
justifications for these changes. The study analyzes three major processes that occurred in Israel’s system of
higher education since its reform in the early 1990s: the increase in the number of students, admission terms to
the departments, and the demand for studies. The research findings indicate that it was the government’s
decision to establish colleges in the early 1990s, rather than free market forces, that led to the considerable
increase in enrollment for academic studies. Then again, free market forces appear to determine admission terms
to the various departments in accordance with the principles of demand and supply. Furthermore, the
government intervenes to regulate the supply of high-demand fields of study but does not complement this by
acting to regulate demand trends, which are determined exclusively by the free will of applicants. Therefore, the
research conclusion is that Israel has no clear well-formulated policy on higher education, a fact that allows the
unrestrained detrimental domination of this system by free market forces.
Category: Social Science
[3] viXra:1812.0189 [pdf] submitted on 2018-12-10 07:29:44
Authors: Erez Cohen
Comments: 19 Pages.
The subject of immigration has been on the public and political agenda of most established countries for many years and has been the focus of much research. In light of increasing immigration to Europe in recent years, this study explores the association between immigration and local unemployment, by examining three prominent immigration destinations: Greece, Germany, and the United States. The research findings indicate that all three countries show a correlation between the two indices, with the different welfare and employment policies implemented by each generating differences in the features of this correlation. In Greece, where the welfare and employment policy implemented encourages idleness, a positive correlation was found between the indices. In Germany, which implements a conservative policy that encourages employment, a negative correlation was found between the two indices. In contrast, the United States implements a liberal immigration policy that produces an ambivalent association between the indices.
Category: Social Science
[2] viXra:1812.0188 [pdf] submitted on 2018-12-10 07:31:41
Authors: Erez Cohen
Comments: 21 Pages.
The conspicuous rise in Israel’s housing prices from 2008 to date, after the stable
prices in the early 2000s, has raised concerns of a property bubble in the Israeli
economy. The grave effects of real estate bubbles that emerged in various
countries around the world throughout history and led to severe long-term
economic crises within the country and elsewhere add to the concern about such
occurrences in the Israeli economy. This article focuses on the current effects of
the real estate bubble on Israeli society at the preliminary stage, and examines
the sociodemographic implications of Israel’s rise in housing prices and its
impact on several social parameters, such as the average number of members in
a household, Israel’s residential density, age at marriage, the extent of emigration
from the country among the young, the population’s spread to peripheral areas,
the inequality index, and more.
Category: Social Science
[1] viXra:1812.0093 [pdf] submitted on 2018-12-05 11:09:19
Authors: D. Vlad, A. Iorgulescu, M. Marcu, A. C. Stoian
Comments: 180 Pages.
[The Proceedings of CIL 2018: Fifth Edition of International Conference of Humanities and Social Sciences - Creativity, Imaginary, Language, Craiova, Romania, 24-25 May 2018 (www.cilconference.ro)]
Category: Social Science
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