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# Research Question 1

Is it possible to determine the semantic area of 'entreprecariat' through the tools of distant reading? Is it possible to declare if it is a positive or negative phenomenon?

By means of the **Word2Vec model** provided by Gensim, we could make **inferences of similarities** between words. It emerges that the word *entreprecariat* has a strong connection with the word *youth* and a weak connection to the word *work*. Furthermore, by querying our model we found out that the ten words most similar to "enterprecariat" are the following:

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The code with the queries is available on our Github [repository](https://github.com/Entreprecariat/Entreprecariat) or you can download it from there:

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Answer: we can confirm our expectations, declaring that **entreprecariat is a different condition** compared to the traditional concepts related to the labour market. It is related to the concept of "precariaty" and "precariousness", but also to some negative adjectives as *panic* and *inability*. 

Insights: since it is a phenomenon that our corpus relates strictly to the youth, what is not present are the adults, and even more the **elderly**. There is a higher probability that, since elderly started to work in previous circumstances, they had permanent contracts or a even if they are precarious, they change company and not the kind of job, **out of the flexibility** requested by the current market. They still relate to the old concept of 'precariat' as 'intermittent employment', while entreprecariat is more similar to a lifestyle. It is not related anymore to the kind of contract (fixed-term, permanent etc.) but to the fact that it permeates every aspect of the life of the worker.