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Does unemployment help or hinder becoming independent? : the role of employment status for leaving the parental home
Full text link"There are two broad trends in industrialised countries motivating this paper: On the one hand, the life phase between youth and adulthood has prolonged and diversified; on the other hand, entering the labour market has become more complex and insecure. In this paper we combine two aspects of these trends by analysing the effect of unemployment on leaving home. Extending previous research, we use a resource-oriented theoretical framework that allows us to elaborate the impact of employment related resources of different actors. Our main hypothesis is that availability of employment related resources matters for leaving home. Further we assume that several actors are involved in the decision for leaving home: individual, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own shortages. In the analyses we use life history data of two birth cohorts in West Germany. We find that for young adults with partners own unemployment accelerates leaving home, while for singles leaving home is delayed. Parental unemployment or unemployment compensation benefits also have only an effect if young adults have no partners. Thus, partnership status plays a crucial role in shaping the transitions of youth to residential independence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Jugendliche, junge Erwachsene, Statusmobilität, Wohnverhalten, Entscheidungsfindung, arbeitslose Jugendliche, allein Stehende, nichteheliche Lebensgemeinschaft, Partnerschaft, Eltern, Wohlfahrtsstaat, Familienstand, Arbeitslosigkeit - Auswirkungen
Individuelle Beratung als Schlüssel zur Chancengleichheit beim Hochschulzugang? Eine experimentelle Studie zu ihrer Wirkung auf verschiedene Ungleichheitsdimensionen
Full text linkIm folgenden Beitrag werden verschiedene Ergebnisse aus der Studie "Zukunfts- und Berufspläne vor dem Abitur" (ZuBAb) zur Wirkung des NRW-Talentscoutings vorgestellt. Das NRW-Talentscouting hat das Ziel, junge Menschen bei der post-sekundären Bildungsentscheidung zu unter‐stützen, indem es Schüler:innen in der Sekundarstufe II, vor allem aus sozioökonomisch benachteiligten Kontexten, hilft, einen nachschulischen Bildungsweg aufzunehmen, der ihren Potenzialen und Interessen entspricht. Im Rahmen der ZuBAb-Studie wurden mittels eines experimentellen und längsschnittlichen Studiendesigns die Bildungsverläufe von Schüler:innen der Oberstufe bis in den nachschulischen Bildungsweg hinein beobachtet. Die Ergebnisse verschiedener Analysen zeigen, dass das Programm soziale Ungleichheiten bei der Aufnahme eines Studiums verringert und die Wahl eines geschlechtsatypischen Studienfachs erhöht. Die Stärke dieser Effekte variiert zwischen verschiedenen Gruppen. Konkret beobachten wir für junge Menschen ohne akademischen Hintergrund einen positiven Effekt auf die Studienaufnahme, der insbesondere dann ausgeprägt ist, wenn die jungen Erwachsenen keinen Migrationshintergrund haben. Zusätzlich zeigt sich, dass die Beratung junge Menschen zu einer geschlechtsatypischen Studienfachwahl motiviert, wobei dieser Effekt unter jungen Männern besonders ausgeprägt ist. In der Zusammenschau weisen diese Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass das NRW-Talentscouting die soziale Zusammensetzung der Studierenden im Allgemeinen und die Geschlechterzusammensetzung in den Studienfächern im Speziellen deutlich diversifiziert und somit soziale Ungleichheiten in der Hochschulbildung reduziert werden
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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