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BUDGET PERSPECTIVES 2008. PENSION PRIORITIES: GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT?
Full text linkThe National Pensions Policy Initiative (NPPI) recommended a target replacement income of 50 per cent of pre-retirement income before tax, and an overriding minimum income of 34 per cent of gross average industrial earnings (GAIE). The Pensions Board (2005), in its National Pensions Review, confirmed these targets.1 However, a number of Board members
…believe that a higher minimum pension target is needed to ensure that pensioners without supplementary pensions have an adequate income by reference to household incomes generally. Other board members also support an increase in the basic pension target for reasons of greater social equity.
Here we revisit these issues, and are able to analyse the trade-off between the costs of State pensions, the cost of State support for private pensions and the overall impact on poverty and the distribution of income
Budget Perspectives 2014. RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 31 June 2013
Full text linkThe annual Budget Perspectives Conference provides a forum for discussing key
public policy issues of both immediate and longer‐term importance. Against a
continuing backdrop of major economic and fiscal challenges and a continuing
fiscal adjustment under the IMF/EU programme, budgetary policy must be seen
to support Ireland’s return to a sustainable growth path
Analysing Pensions: Modelling and Policy Issues. ESRI RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 29 November 2012
Full text linkPension systems in OECD countries face challenges arising from increases in life
expectancy and from downward pressures on public expenditure. Changes to
public and private pension systems have effects that are both complex and longlived.
Careful analysis is needed to tease out the implications of different reform
options. Recognising this, the EU Directorate-General for Employment, Social
Affairs and Inclusion set up a call for research which specifically included models
for the analysis of pensions. The first two papers in this volume flow directly
from that work, while the third tackles a complementary topic in the pension
area
Budget Perspectives 2012. RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 22 October 2011
Full text linkThe annual Budget Perspectives Conference, co‐hosted by the Economic and Social
Research Institute (ESRI) and the Foundation for Fiscal Studies (FFS), provides a
forum for discussing key public policy issues of both immediate and longer‐term
concern. Against the current backdrop of major economic and fiscal challenges,
budgetary policy must be seen to support Ireland’s return to a sustainable growth
path. At a time when expenditure cuts are needed and more tax revenue must be
generated, equity issues are of great importance to social solidarity. Research on the
allocation of benefits and tax burdens allows these equity issues to be addressed
systematically
The Institutionalisation of anti-poverty and social exclusion policy in Irish social partnership
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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
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
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