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The impact of education on economic competitiveness: evidence from Kosovo
No full textQuality of higher education and training is assessed to be a crucial component for economies that want to move up the value chain beyond simple production processes and products. In particular, globalizing economy requires economies to nurture pools of well-educated workers who are able to adapt rapidly to the changing environment. The study examines the impact of secondary and higher education enrolment rates and quality of provision on economic competitiveness. It explores the system for labor force skills upgrading and its relation to the evolving economy of Kosovo. The level of productivity is affected by investments in sound education and training policies. The study adopts the national competitiveness approach and assesses the level and ways that the education system in Kosovo affects the national competitiveness index. The assessment integrates both static and dynamic components of education and is based on econometric analysis
Advancing Kosovo national competitiveness – A resource-based strategy
No full textNational Competitiveness is often viewed as an essential holistic approach to economic performance. Scholars have advanced the competitiveness model to calibrate growth strategies of developed economies in Western Europe, Americas and East Asia. However, it has not found any comprehensive application to less developed economies like Kosovo. Located in Western Balkans, it has often received more in attention in the discourse of its contentious political status settlement. Kosovo is a resource rich economy but a more integrated approach to advance its competitiveness. The article uses the National Competitiveness Model to analyses the gap between the existing situation and future development. The methodological framework relies on the resource-based strategy and integrates perspectives from economy, technology, human resources and productivity to explain the incongruence between national resources and economic performance. The study reveals that Kosovo is still in the nascent stage of economic development and needs to enforce a concerted strategy of national competitiveness improvement. The article also offers a national economic roadmap for resource exploitation to enhance the prospect of economic convergence with advanced European economies
Social Policies in Kosovo: institutional reforms in the context of globalization and internatin aladministration
Get PDFSocial policy broadly focuses on pensions system, health insurance, education, family policies, disability and injury insurance, unemployment benefits, war victims’ benefits and other aid to the poor. The main features of Western Balkans’ welfare system during communism can be characterized by three pillars: full employment and quasi-obligatory employment: broad and universalistic social insurance: and a highly developed typically company-based, system of services and fringe benefits. This system was eliminated after the fall of communism, as it became impossible for the state to provide the necessary funds to cover new social costs associated with transformation. The welfare system reform in the form of introduction of choice and marketization was delayed and implemented unevenly due to protracted conflicts, internal and external determinants. The paper initially will comparatively examine the similarities and differences in social policy in Western Balkans taking into account different initial conditions, legacy, political systems and the influence of international actors. Secondly, it details the case of social policy in Kosovo explaining resulting institutional set-up and policies adopted in the context of international administration and globalisation
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
Insurance Sector Analysis in Turkey: An Empirical Study
No full textThe purpose of this study is to comprehend the statistical relation between the amount of turnover produced by an employee in insurance companies in Turkey, used as a dependent variable. Whereas, the independent variables are three.The first independent variable is the ratio of number of staff horldiong a Bachelor (BA) over the number of all employees of each insurance company. The second independent varaible is the ratio of the number of sales department crew over number of all employees of each insurance company. The third independent variable is the ratio of number of male salespeople over the number of all sales department of each insurance company. Results indicate that the ratio of the number of male sales department crew over the number of all employees of each insurance company has a negative effect on the average turnover produced by one employee. Moreover, the ratio of number of male salespeople over the number of all sales department of each insurance company is found to have positive effect on the dependent variable. Lastly, the ratio of the number of staff holding a BA degree over the number of all employees of each insurance company has no significant effect on the dependent variable.This study also provides a summary of the basic terms of the concept of insurance and risk. Considering that the profitability is a very crucial issue for the insurance sector as for all other sectors, the profitability ratios of the insurance companies for the last 10 years are provided and analyzed within the study.</jats:p
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