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Barriere e opportunità all’implementazione di politiche di invecchiamento: una prospettiva comparata europea
No full textDemographic ageing threatens to unravel European social protection systems
and labour markets in the not too-distant future. Welfare state reform is called
for across policy domains yet remains controversial. How can European
societies safeguard social rights without endangering the financial sustainability
of welfare systems?
Two paradigmatic ideas have guided our research, namely, those of ‘productive’
as compared to ‘active’ ageing. The productive ageing paradigm postulates that
the problems posed by demographic ageing can only be coped through longer
working lives. At the same time, the universal benefits associated with the
modern welfare state need to be reduced, i.e. the insurance principle should be
strengthened at the expense of the re-distributive principle. The alternative
‘active ageing’ paradigm considers the solutions proposed by the ‘productive
ageing’ paradigm as both short-sighted and inadequate. While recognising the
necessity to promote longer working lives, it considers that the main barrier to
this is age-related discrimination. Older or ageing people must be recognised as
active citizens and promoted as such – in the labour market, in health care and
in community activities. Hence the emphasis of the ‘active ageing’ paradigm on
senior citizenship
Despite the uptake in most countries of the ‘senior citizenship’ discourse (even
if not always the term ‘active ageing’) in special reports, inquiries, research
programmes or pilot policy programmes, a closer examination of related
reforms at the level of specific policy domains shows that we are far from
meeting the requirements of a substantive policy reform as foreseen by the
active ageing paradigm and recommended by the European Commission’s
Communication Towards a Europe of All Ages (1999). This is the case for
labour market policy, pension policy and health policy. Mentality is changing at
an even slower rate within the private sector. Instead we may observe the
consolidation of the efficiency paradigm that is directed towards rationalisation
and budgetary discipline
Le condizioni contrattuali e previdenziali del lavoro degli anziani: politiche e interventi di attuazione
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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
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