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Utilization of Educational Attainment of Foreign Migrant Workers in the Czech Labour Market
Get PDFThis doctoral thesis addresses one of the most significant topics in contemporary research in international migration; that is the education-occupation mismatch of highly qualified foreign workers in the labour market of a host country. The thesis focuses on the situation in the Czech labour market in the time-period between 2009 and 2016. By the possibility to utilize a unique set of non-public, anonymized individual data on foreign employment this thesis provides a first thorough empirical evidence on the level of mismatch of skilled migrant workers in the Czech labour market, with a dominant focus on quantitative approach to the given issue. Results of the research reveal that the mismatch between the migrant employees' attained (tertiary) and required education at their job occupations on the Czech labour market does exist and it is encountered by 20-30 % of tertiary educated foreign workers; moreover, level of mismatch has been gradually increasing over the given time-period. The differences in the level of mismatch then fundamentally differ across particular citizenship groups. The resulting level of mismatch of highly skilled foreign workers in the Czech labour market seems to be driven predominantly by broader social and economic drivers. More specifically, these are particularly a limited..
Those who participate and those who don't: The significance of political and civic participation in Czech migrants' trajectories of embedding in a transnational space
No full textThis dissertation, rooted in the transnational paradigm, examines the role that migrants' transnational and receiving-country-based political and civic participation play in their differentiated "embedding" in the social networks and structures of the societies concerned. I explore the role of the "liquid migration context" of the European Union for migrant belonging and decision-making. The concept of the "leap of faith" is introduced to capture migrants' conscious commitment to a "full" life in the receiving country. The analysis is based on in-depth, narrative, semi-structured interviews with 50 first-generation post-1989 Czech migrants in the United Kingdom, comprising a pre-Brexit sub-sample of 41 informants interviewed between 2014 and 2016 and an additional post-Brexit sub-sample of nine migrants interviewed in 2019 and 2022. My findings indicate that political interest and attitudes towards engagement tend to be lifelong, but migration alters individuals' actual participative practices. Rather than profound value change, surrounding formal and informal opportunity structures determine this transformation. National identification serves as a formal and psychological anchor in migrants' self-conceptions. Transnational political interest contributes to maintaining cross-border interpersonal..
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
The Development Effects of Migration and Remittances in the Post-communist Region and Times
No full textPo pádu železné opony na počátku 90. let 20. století významně vzrostly aspirace a příležitosti k migraci díky expanzi kapitalismu a globalizaci, což vedlo k zásadním ekonomickým změnám po celém světě. Tyto změny usnadnily větší transnacionální mobilitu, přetvořily lokální ekonomiky prostřednictvím finančních remitencí a umožnily šíření kulturních norem a praktik prostřednictvím sociálních remitencí. Integrace dříve uzavřených ekonomik do globálních trhů přinesla jak výzvy, tak příležitosti. Cílem této disertační práce je empiricky zkoumat globální, regionální a vnitrostátní dopady emigrace a finančních remitencí v postkomunistické éře. Výsledky založené na agregovaných datech z postkomunistického období naznačují, že remitence obecně snižují plodnost na globální úrovni a podporují příjmovou rovnost v postkomunistickém regionu. Nicméně s rostoucí expozicí a závislostí země na remitencích se jejich schopnost snižovat plodnost a nerovnost oslabuje. Na úrovni domácností analýza reprezentativních dat z Tádžikistánu, jedné z postkomunistických zemí nejvíce ovlivněných remitencemi, z období 2007-2011 ukazuje, že migrace člena domácnosti spolu s následným příjmem remitencí zlepšuje subjektivní blahobyt těch, kteří zůstávají doma. Rodinné remitence jsou navíc do značné míry nezávislé na krátkodobých..
Rozvojové dopady migrace a remitencí v postkomunistickém regionu a období
Get PDFPo pádu železné opony na počátku 90. let 20. století významně vzrostly aspirace a příležitosti k migraci díky expanzi kapitalismu a globalizaci, což vedlo k zásadním ekonomickým změnám po celém světě. Tyto změny usnadnily větší transnacionální mobilitu, přetvořily lokální ekonomiky prostřednictvím finančních remitencí a umožnily šíření kulturních norem a praktik prostřednictvím sociálních remitencí. Integrace dříve uzavřených ekonomik do globálních trhů přinesla jak výzvy, tak příležitosti. Cílem této disertační práce je empiricky zkoumat globální, regionální a vnitrostátní dopady emigrace a finančních remitencí v postkomunistické éře. Výsledky založené na agregovaných datech z postkomunistického období naznačují, že remitence obecně snižují plodnost na globální úrovni a podporují příjmovou rovnost v postkomunistickém regionu. Nicméně s rostoucí expozicí a závislostí země na remitencích se jejich schopnost snižovat plodnost a nerovnost oslabuje. Na úrovni domácností analýza reprezentativních dat z Tádžikistánu, jedné z postkomunistických zemí nejvíce ovlivněných remitencemi, z období 2007-2011 ukazuje, že migrace člena domácnosti spolu s následným příjmem remitencí zlepšuje subjektivní blahobyt těch, kteří zůstávají doma. Rodinné remitence jsou navíc do značné míry nezávislé na krátkodobých...Katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvojeDepartment of Social Geography and Regional DevelopmentPřírodovědecká fakultaFaculty of Scienc
Medzi ideovou sebaidentifikáciou a expertným zaradením: metóda latentných ideových typov =Between Self-Identifi cation and Expert Evaluation of Ideological Preferences: The Method of Latent Ideological Types
No full textThe aim of this article is to present the method of latent ideological types and its possible uses. Two dominant approaches to measuring the ideological orientations of the public are self-identification and expert evaluation of attitudes and value orientations. Both approaches are also a common ingredient in international comparative research. In this article the authors first focus on the strengths and methodological weaknesses of those approaches. They then introduce their method of latent ideological types as a different approach. They present the principles of the method, the necessary sequence of steps, and conclude with its concrete application using CSES Slovakia 2010 data. The method of latent ideological types is based on subjective placements on a given set of ideological orientations or scales. The non-manifest ideological inclinations of the respondents are then determined from their attitudes and opinions. Using attitude variables, definitional patterns and cluster analysis the authors proceed from manifest ideological types to latent ideological types. The resulting latent ideological positions of the respondents may differ from their manifest self-identifications. The advantages of knowing the latent positions are discussed.19122
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
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