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Inequities in immigrants’ access to health care services : disentangling potential barriers
Full text linkPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess whether immigrants suffer from unequal access to health care services, that add to prevailing socioeconomic barriers to care. Design/methodology/approach: Using a uniquely rich Italian health survey, the authors estimate the correlation between immigrant status and the probability of accessing health services, conditional on a rich set of individual and territorial characteristics. Findings: Results show that foreigners are more likely to contact emergency services and less likely to visit specialist doctors and use preventive care. Similar results hold for second-generation immigrants. Originality/value: The authors discuss the sources of observed inequities and suggest tentative policy implications to promote equal access
L’immigrazione irregolare in tempo di crisi
No full textIl lavoro utilizza tre diverse basi di microdati per quantificare l’effetto della recessione economica sugli immigrati irregolari e mettere a confronto i loro esiti occupazionali con quelli sperimentati nello stesso periodo dai nativi e dagli immigrati regolarmente soggiornanti in Italia. Questo è il primo studio a documentare un fortissimo peggioramento degli esiti lavorativi e della condizione abitativa durante la crisi economica iniziata nel 2008 fra gli immigrati privi di regolare permesso di soggiorno. In particolare, l’analisi dimostra che il calo della percentuale di occupati fra i lavoratori stranieri regolari è circa un terzo di quello degli immigrati irregolari. Inoltre, contrariamente a quanto osservato per la componente regolare dell’immigrazione, il calo dell’occupazione colpisce indistintamente entrambi i generi. La popolazione irregolare pare quindi caratterizzata da una particolare vulnerabilità sul mercato del lavoro, che si somma a quella che affligge la popolazione immigrata regolare.This paper analyses microdata from three different sources in order to quantify the impact of the economic recession on undocumented immigrants in Italy and to compare their labour market outcomes in recent years with the performance of native workers and documented immigrants. This study documents for the first time a dramatic deterioration of employment outcomes and housing conditions of undocumented immigrants during the economic crisis started in 2008. In particular, the reduction in the share of employed workers is about three times larger among immigrants lacking legal status than among legally resident immigrants. Differently from what observed for this latter group, among undocumented immigrants the fall in employment affects both genders in a similar way. If immigrant workers are generally more vulnerable in the labour market than natives, the lack of legal status is associated with even higher exposure to the detrimental effects of economic downturns
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Dal 1931 al 2010
No full textLo scritto esamina la situazione economia del 2010 e ne estende estendeva le analogie a tutto il 1931. Le conclusioni sono che si può ragionevolmente affermare che, così come l’aumento d’imposte di Hoover non restituì la stabilità finanziaria agli Stati Uniti, così la riduzione della spesa sociale in Europa (in molti paesi non diversa da quella statunitense) non porterà in quanto tale ai risultati attesi sugli andamenti dei mercati finanziari. Si produrrà invece un forte arretramento in termini di coesione sociale e di qualità della vita civile, data la polarizzazione nella distribuzione dei redditi e l’inadeguatezza dei mercati assicurativi privati di coprire larga parte dei rischi sociali. Anche da questo punto di vista l’esperienza del New Deal è istruttiva
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dal 1929 al 2008
No full textLo scritto, elaborato nel novembre 2008, prima dello scoppio della crisi, evidenziava le analogie tra la situazione del 1929 e quella del 2008. Nel lavoro discutevamo le analogie sul versante reale (disuguaglianza), finanziario (liberalizzazione finanziaria e bolla speculativa) e, soprattutto, culturale (dominio di modelli economici in cui è verificato il primo teorema dell’economia del benessere)
Riflessioni essenziali sul sistema pensionistico
No full textUn'analisi critica dei processi di riforma del sistema pensionistico italiano
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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