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Dependency and Poverty
Get PDFThis work examines the economic conditions of dependent elderly people and their families, in order to investigate the existence of a relation between the condition of dependence and the risk of falling into poverty. For this purpose, we divide the research in to phase. The result of the first phase, obtained through a cluster analysis, is the definition of four typologies of the European States on the basis of LTC systems' specific aspects (public expenditure, accessibility and delivery of services and the care market composition), which in our opinion, affect the level of private resources (both in term of time and money) that dependent elderly people and their family members devote to care. On the basis of the result of the cluster analysis we selected a restrict number of countries in order to estimate the possible connection between the level of private care resources related to the health condition of the elderly and the risk of poverty, both for the dependent elderly and for their adult children. Through the use of micro data, this work offers an analysis of the impacts of the LTC system reform processes on the formal and informal services, during the last ten years. Logistic regression models are used for estimate the relationship between the risk of poverty, the private care resources, the individual and family characteristics and the benefits that the dependent elderly people receive from LTC system.
At the aggregate level, the main sources of data are represented by ESSPROS, SHA, OECD and EUROSTAT. At the micro level we use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE: wave 1, wave 2 and wave 4) to analyze both LTC-related spending and the elderly person’s and its family income. We utilize the dataset of the three waves of SHARE in order to use a diachronic approach for better understanding of the incidence of the dependent condition on the income of the elderly and their family
Le politiche di contrasto alla povertà
Get PDFLo studio analizza come il Reddito di inclusione e il Reddito di cittadinanza
si prefigurano rispetto alla copertura del bisogno economico delle diverse
coorti generazionali. Dopo aver mostrato la recente dinamica del fenomeno
della povertà in Italia, l’articolo presenta alcune micro-simulazioni sulla platea
di potenziali beneficiari e sulla spesa prevista per le due misure di contrasto
alla povertà in esame. I risultati evidenziano che, in termini comparativi e al
netto della generalizzata espansione della platea dei beneficiari prodotta dal
Reddito di cittadinanza, quest’ultimo tende a favorire la popolazione anziana
molto più della precedente misura nazionale e che questo disequilibrio generazionale
verrebbe solo parzialmente risolto da una modifica della scala di
equivalenza
Make them work! In-work benefits after the pandemic in the reform of Italy’s minimum income scheme
Get PDFAs a consequence of the pandemic the linkage between in-work benefits (IWBs) and minimum income schemes (MIS) is likely to gain prominence, due to the potential impact of asymmetric employment shocks on low-income workers. Framing the characteristics of IWBs in the institutional setting and the functioning of the welfare state in a selected number of European countries, this article draws lessons for the Italian case on the role of these kinds of measures in avoiding poverty traps. Using EU-LFS data and INAPP Plus data, the article analyses, in the Italian case, the variation before and after the pandemic outbreak in the profiles of MIS beneficiaries close to the labour market and of those workers who have become unemployed. Evidence indicates that the variations in the profiles of MIS beneficiaries and those transitioning into unemployment after the pandemic outburst call for the introduction of a fully-fledged IWB. This should be properly linked with MIS to minimize the risks of a poverty trap, and encourage the take-up of regular employment. Rather than dismantling MIS support for the «employable» recipients, evidence suggests that reform should focus on making MIS compatible with work through the IWB schem
I would like to but I cannot : what influences the involuntariness of part-time employment in Italy
Get PDFPublished online: 14 May 2024Over the last two decades, involuntary part-time (IPT) employment has become a more and more pressing issue in Europe, especially in the southern countries, where IPT today constitutes most part-time employment. Using INAPP-PLUS data and different discrete choice model estimations, this paper aims to shed light on the factors that explain the IPT growth in Italy, focusing on what influences the IPT status at the individual, household and labour market levels. The main hypothesis is that what influences the IPT work derive from a combination of workers’ individual, household, and job characteristics which may engender limited power during the bargaining process. The empirical results, based on gender-specific models, highlight that characteristics associated with the IPT status significantly changed over time, reporting a convergent path between the gender profiles of IPT employment. However, IPT employment for women still appears to be mainly originated from the gendered division of domestic and care tasks, while this phenomenon seems to be mainly driven by the labour demand side for men.This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Springer Transformative Agreement (2020-2024
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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