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On Tuesday, April 7th, ISET hosted Professor Giorgio Brunello from the University of Padova. Prof. Brunello presented his recent paper titled "Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan”, that he collaborated with his colleague Professor Marco Bertoni.
Professor Brunello attempted to show the relationship between a husband’s retirement and mental health (stress) of his wife by using an econometric analysis. As explained, the paper was prepared based on Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment Stabilization Law, which mandated employers to guarantee continuous employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age.
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On November 25, 2014 the Deputy Rector of Tbilisi State University, Professor Joseph Salukvadze who teaches at the Department of Human Geography at the faculty of Social and Political Sciences held a presentation on the topic “Changing Patterns of Urban Development in Post-soviet Tbilisi” at ISET.
In the beginning of the presentation Professor Salukvadze spoke about Tbilisi of the Soviet period and Tbilisi today, about its growth and urban planning. Afterwards, he distinguished and discussed three different phases of urbanism: the first one is the so-called “Do it yourself” phase covering the early/first transition phase (1990s), the second phase “Investor urbanism” covering the second transition (2000s) and the third phase -“Politically determined urbanism” revealing itself
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