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Flexicurity analysis of youngsters in Europe: the role of "capabilities" and human capital
Full text linkThe paper presents some significant results of the YOUTH project (Young in Occupations and Unemployment: Thinking of their better integration in the labour market), promoted by the European Commission - DG Employment. The paper assumes that flexicurity is very important for young workers, because they are (as new entrants in the labour market and as workers with peculiar qualitative structural characteristics) particularly exposed to risks of unemployment, "atypical" employment and precariousness trap. In this framework, we perform a principal component and a cluster analyses to classify the EU Member States in accordance with the degree of achievement of flexicurity for young people. The analysis use a set of indicators wider than that identified in the four flexicurity pillars proposed by the EC and includes flexibility and security components more targeted to young people needs. In particular, we use further human capital indicators and some measures of combination security and young people autonomy, that we propose as indicators of individuals' "real opportunities", strictly tied to the concept of "capabilities".
Le prospettive dell'occupazione nei mercati del lavoro locali altoatesini
No full textIl lavoro riporta i risultati di una ricerca finalizzata ad aggiornare e completare le basi conoscitive indispensabili alla predisposizione di adeguate politiche strutturali, dell’occupazione e del lavoro in Alto Adige, con particolare riguardo all’elaborazione di strategie formative collocabili in un’ottica di sviluppo umano.
Le ipotesi teoriche sottostanti il lavoro fanno riferimento agli sviluppi dell’analisi economica neo-ricardiana e al concetto di “sistema produttivo verticalmente integrato”, da essa introdotto e approfondito. In questa luce, nell’analisi delle prospettive a medio termine della composizione professionale della domanda di lavoro assume un ruolo cruciale la dimensione territoriale, in cui acquistano significato le interconnessioni a monte e a valle dei sistemi produttivi presenti, nonché le infrastrutture materiali e sociali disponibili.
Al fine di cogliere l’evoluzione dei mercati del lavoro altoatesini nell’ultimo decennio del secolo scorso si sono messi a confronto i risultati del censimento del 2001 e del 1991; l’analisi delle informazioni di fonte Istat-Astat, Ire-Camera di Commercio di Bolzano, Ufficio Provinciale del Lavoro ha consentito di delinearne gli sviluppi all’inizio di questo millennio. In base a queste tali analisi si sono evidenziate le caratteristiche di tali mercati, cercando di metterne in luce gli squilibri strutturali, i ‘fattori di criticità’ e le potenzialità presenti.
Le informazioni quantitative sui mercati del lavoro locali altoatesini hanno suggerito l’opportunità di approfondire l’analisi del principale mercato locale, quello centrato sul capoluogo di provincia di Bolzano, dove si concentra la localizzazione e la gestione del capitale materiale, economico e sociale altoatesino.
Si è cercato infine di sviluppare una serie di osservazioni su come gli squilibri rilevati possano essere affrontati e superati, anche alla luce di insegnamenti provenienti da altre esperienze italiane e straniere, in una prospettiva di medio-lungo periodo, attraverso politiche di sviluppo umano, con particolare riguardo a quelle concernenti l’apprendimento per tutta la vita da parte dei lavoratori
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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