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Correction: Elephant bones for the Middle Pleistocene toolmaker Open

Paola Villa, Giovanni Boschian, Luca Pollarolo, Daniela Saccà, Fabrizio Marra , et al. · 2024

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256090.].

Efectos Posteriores al Covid-19 Open

Yolanda Bunce, Paola Villa, Ana Díaz · 2022

La pandemia de COVID-19 ha impactado gravemente en la población mundial, con una gran tasa de morbilidad y mortalidad. Algunas enfermedades que ha dejado como secuela este virus es, respiratorios, cardiovasculares, neurológico; manifestaci…

Elephant bones for the Middle Pleistocene toolmaker Open

Paola Villa, Giovanni Boschian, Luca Pollarolo, Daniela Saccà, Fabrizio Marra , et al. · 2021

The use of bone as raw material for implements is documented since the Early Pleistocene. Throughout the Early and Middle Pleistocene bone tool shaping was done by percussion flaking, the same technique used for knapping stone artifacts, a…

Youth employment trajectories and labour market reforms during the Great Recession in Europe Open

Gabriella Berloffa, Alina Şandor, Mark Smith, Paola Villa · 2021

The Great Recession had profound consequences for the quantity and quality of work for young people in European countries. Usual labour market indicators capture only some crisis effects, highlighting the need for a more dynamic and nuance…

Neandertals on the beach: Use of marine resources at Grotta dei Moscerini (Latium, Italy) Open

Paola Villa, Sylvain Soriano, Luca Pollarolo, Carlo Smriglio, Mario Gaeta , et al. · 2020

Excavated in 1949, Grotta dei Moscerini, dated MIS 5 to early MIS 4, is one of two Italian Neandertal sites with a large assemblage of retouched shells (n = 171) from 21 layers. The other occurrence is from the broadly contemporaneous laye…

Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant’Agostino caves Open

Ilaria Degano, Sylvain Soriano, Paola Villa, Luca Pollarolo, Jeannette Jacqueline Łucejko , et al. · 2019

Hafting of stone tools was an important advance in the technology of the Paleolithic. Evidence of hafting in the Middle Paleolithic is growing and is not limited to points hafted on spears for thrusting or throwing. This article describes …

The quality of employment in the early labour market experience of young Europeans Open

Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, Alina Şandor, Paola Villa · 2019

This paper presents a new approach to evaluating individuals’ employment quality, considering the evolution of individuals’ employment conditions over a period of time, instead of the quality of jobs held at a point in time. In particular,…

Youth Labor in Transition: Inequalities, Mobility, and Policies in Europe Open

Jacqueline O’Reilly, Janine Leschke, Renate Ortlieb, Martin Seeleib‐Kaiser, Paola Villa · 2019

"Youth transitions to employment in Europe are increasingly protracted, precarious and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Examining employment transitions affected by the family and migration the authors argue f…

Stressed Economies, Distressed Policies, and Distraught Young People: European Policies and Outcomes from a Youth Perspective Open

Mark Smith, Janine Leschke, Helen Russell, Paola Villa · 2019

This chapter adopts a critical perspective on policymaking in European labor markets before, during, and after the Great Recession. Using extensive analysis of recent policies at the flexibility–security interface, we identify four key wea…

Integrating perspectives on youth labor in transition : economic production, social reproduction, and policy learning Open

Jacqueline O’Reilly, Janine Leschke, Renate Ortlieb, Martin Seeleib‐Kaiser, Paola Villa · 2019

In this conclusion we provide an integrated analysis of the findings from this volume. We discuss the challenges presented from comparing youth transitions across countries, the importance of using a wider range of indicators, and a more c…

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Jacqueline O’Reilly, Janine Leschke, Renate Ortlieb, Martin Seeleib‐Kaiser, Paola Villa · 2018

Subject Organizations Social Policy and Advocacy Community Development Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

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Jacqueline O’Reilly, Janine Leschke, Renate Ortlieb, Martin Seeleib‐Kaiser, Paola Villa · 2018

Subject Organizations Social Policy and Advocacy Community Development Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

From Neandertals to modern humans: New data on the Uluzzian Open

Paola Villa, Luca Pollarolo, Mario Dini, Fabrizio Marra, Cristian Biagioni , et al. · 2018

Having thrived in Eurasia for 350,000 years Neandertals disappeared from the record around 40,000-37,000 years ago, after modern humans entered Europe. It was a complex process of population interactions that included cultural exchanges an…

Early Levallois and the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic in central Italy Open

Sylvain Soriano, Paola Villa · 2017

In the second half of the 19th century Pleistocene faunas were discovered in two sites, Sedia del Diavolo and Monte delle Gioie, contained in deposits of the Aniene River in the area of Rome (Latium, Italy). Fieldwork by A.C. Blanc in the …

The social reproduction of youth labour market inequalities Open

Jacqueline O’Reilly, Mark W. Smith, Paola Villa · 2017

Unemployment affects different groups of young people unequally. Using the concept of social reproduction, discussed by Humphries and Rubery, we examine youth employment trajectories in Europe. We draw attention to the effects of gender, e…

Precariousness and Gender Asymmetries Among Early Career Researchers: A Focus on STEM Fields in the Italian Academia Open

Rossella Bozzon, Annalisa Murgia, Paola Villa · 2017

This article analyses how the growing instability and uncertainty in the Italian academic system intersect the mechanisms that reproduce gender disadvantages in scientific careers. More precisely, it focuses on how job instability influenc…

The quality of employment in the early labour market experience of young Europeans Open

Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, Alina Şandor, Paola Villa · 2017

This paper presents a new approach to evaluating individuals' employment quality, considering the evolution of individuals' employment conditions over a period of time, instead of the quality of jobs held at a certain point in time. In par…

Youth employment security and labour market institutions: A dynamic perspective Open

Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, Alina Şandor, Paola Villa · 2016

The shift of policy focus from job security to employment security calls for a more dynamic measurement of young people's labour market performance. This article uses data on monthly employment status trajectories and job duration to inves…

The Acheulian and Early Middle Paleolithic in Latium (Italy): Stability and Innovation Open

Paola Villa, Sylvain Soriano, Rainer Grün, Fabrizio Marra, Sébastien Nomade , et al. · 2016

We present here the results of a technological and typological analysis of the Acheulian and early Middle Paleolithic assemblages from Torre in Pietra (Latium, Italy) together with comparisons with the Acheulian small tools of Castel di Gu…

Family background and youth labour market outcomes across Europe Open

Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, Paola Villa · 2016

The paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of worklessness in a cross-country comparative analysis. Using the 2011 EU-SILC ad-hoc module on intergenerational transmission of disadvantages, we study the extent to which family…

Policy synthesis and integrative report on Flexicurity Open

Paola Villa, Janine Leschke, Smith Mark · 2016

This synthesis report summarises the main objectives and findings of each of the component tasks of WP10 with a focus on examining “flexicurity” as a policy approach for tackling youth joblessness in Europe, both in terms of the effects on…

University of Trento, Italy Open

Annalisa Murgia, Barbara Poggio, Elisa Rapetti, Paola Villa · 2016

Women and austerity in Italy Open

Maria Luigia Segnana, Paola Villa · 2015

The paper considers how the severe and long downturn in the first phase of the crisis, followed by fiscal consolidation (austerity policies) in its second phase, have heavily impacted on women and men in Italy. It argues that the effects a…

The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies Open

Sylvain Soriano, Paola Villa, Anne Delagnes, Ilaria Degano, Luca Pollarolo , et al. · 2015

The classification of archaeological assemblages in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa in terms of diversity and temporal continuity has significant implications with respect to recent cultural evolutionary models which propose either gr…

A Milk and Ochre Paint Mixture Used 49,000 Years Ago at Sibudu, South Africa Open

Paola Villa, Luca Pollarolo, Ilaria Degano, Leila Birolo, Marco Pasero , et al. · 2015

Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, proteomic and scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) analyses of residue on a stone flake from a 49,000 year-old layer of Sibudu (South Africa) indicate a mixt…

Review of Nikolai Duffy’s “Against Metaphor: Samuel Beckett and the Influence of Science” Open

Paola Villa · 2015

Work-poor and work-rich families: Influence on youth labour market outcomes Open

Gabriella Berloffa, Marianna Filandri, Eleonora Matteazzi, Tiziana Nazio, Nicola Negri , et al. · 2015

This working paper sets out to examine trends in the distribution of work between households and how this affects the employment likelihood of young people in Europe. A significant body of literature has indicated the growth of work-poor a…

Femmes et austérité en Italie Open

Paola Villa · 2015

Five Characteristics of Youth Unemployment in Europe Open

Jacqueline O’Reilly, Werner Eichhörst, András Gábos, Kari Hadjivassiliou, David Lain , et al. · 2015

Current levels of youth unemployment need to be understood in the context of increased labor market flexibility, an expansion of higher education, youth migration, and family legacies of long-term unemployment. Compared with previous reces…

Changing Labour Market Opportunities for Young People in Italy and the Role of the Family of Origin Open

Gabriella Berloffa, Francesca Modena, Paola Villa · 2015

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