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Gender wage differentials and educational mismatch: an application to the Spanish case
Get PDFThis article aims to analyse gender wage differentials in Spain by taking into account the levels of educational
attainment and by studying whether the educa-tional mismatch affects the gender wage gap. Focusing on returns to
education, evidence is found on the existence of educational mismatch and on its contribu-tion to determine wages, with
women suffering greater wage penalties that are associated with educational mismatch. Furthermore, although the
gender wage gap is lower for individuals with low educational levels, we find that the part of this gap due to differences
in returns is greater in this group. On the contrary, the gender gap is greater among highly-educated workers, but in this
case most of the wage differentials are due to differences in productive characteristics. In any case, our results suggest
that gender wage discrimination tends to be greater for those workers who show educational mismatch.Spanish
Ministry of Science and Innovation (Fundamental
Research Projects ECO2009-13864-C03-01 and
ECO2009-13864-C03-02
Effects of educational mismatch on private returns to education: An analysis of the Spanish case (1995-2006)
Get PDFThis study examines the effects of educational mismatch on wages in the Spanish labour
market since the mid-nineties. First we study the evolution of returns to education and then we
estimate returns to education in terms of the match between the worker’s schooling and the job
requirements. The results indicate that returns to education have declined since the mid-nineties.
One also finds that the return associated with the job’s required education is greater than that
corresponding to the worker’s actual schooling, and that the return on an additional year of
attained education is positive b ut less than that of an additional year of required education. From
a policy perspective, the existence of educational mismatch points to inefficiencies in the
allocation of the educational resources. Investment on education can positively contribute to
alleviate the unemployment problem in Spain, but taken into account the existence of educational
mismatch it also becomes necessary to introduce structural reforms in order to adapt the job
structure to a model of production based on knowledge so that the more highly qualified workers
can find a job that corresponds to their educational level.Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Fun-damental Research Projects ECO2009-13864-C03-01 and ECO2009-13864-C03-02)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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