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Governing Public Employment Services : New Public Management, Social Partnership and Privatization
No full textThe Great Recession that has haunted the world since 2008 has made the crucial importance of effective public employment services (PES) pain- fully apparent. Unemployment has been hovering at about 10 per cent in the European Union (EU) and the USA, long-term unemployment is on the rise almost everywhere in the Western world, and in many places youth unemployment is over 20 per cent, leaving behind entire lost generations. But even before the global financial crisis, un- and under- employment was a challenge for policy-makers and individual workers alike. For that reason, PES have long been important institutions for the operation of modern labour markets, performing tasks that range from the provision of financial assistance to workers without jobs to acting as critical players in matching vacancies with jobseekers and equipping workers with the skills they need to succeed in rapidly changing labour markets. In many countries, they also function as the ‘employer of last resort’ through the organization of direct job creation schemes, the facilitation of short-time work schemes (Kurzarbeit) and/or the provision of employment subsidies to firms willing to train or hire disadvantaged workers. Given their pivotal role, it is hardly surprising that PES have been exposed to massive modernization efforts in recent decades, frequently resulting in complete restructuring. Most of these reforms have been driven by a strong belief in the value of ‘new public management’ (NPM) techniques that revolve around introducing new systems of performance, quality and case management, while separating purchasers from service providers (Weishaupt, 2010a)
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 Governance of Labour Administration
No full textFocusing on public administration activities in the field of national labour policy, this timely book provides detailed analyses of labour administration reforms, innovations and challenges in different countries, including detailed case studies from Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US.Publishe
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
The role of government in industrial relations
No full textThe 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a reevaluation of established policies and institutions in the areas of labour, employment, social protection and industrial relations. This book analyses recent reforms in labour administration and national labour policies, charting their development and discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by governments, ministries of labour, labour inspectors, employer organisations and trade unions
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