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Housing careers, intergenerational support and family relations
Get PDFThe home and family have always been mutually embedded, with the former central to the realization and reproduction of the latter. More recently, this mutuality has taken on a more critical salience as realignments in housing markets, employment and welfare states in many countries have worked together to undermine housing access for new households. In this context, families have become increasingly involved in smoothening the routes of young adults members up the ‘housing ladder’ into home ownership. Intergenerational support appears to have become much more widespread and not just confined to familialistic welfare regimes. The role of intergenerational support for housing remains, however, highly differentiated across countries, cities and regions, as well as uneven between social and income classes. This introduction to the Special Issue explores how the role of housing wealth transfers has impacted the renegotiation of the generational contract. In doing so, it sets the scene for the articles that follow, each of which contribute significantly to advancing understanding of housing as a key driver of contemporary social relations and inequalities
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 competitiveness of rental market structures and its effect on landlord behavior: A methodological approach
No full textGovernments in many European countries have required social housing providers to become more market orientated and work more efficiently. As a result, the demarcation between the activities of social and private landlords seem to have become more blurred, which has presumably led to increased competitive pressures on both landlord groups. In an attempt to create a better understanding of the basic conditions of a competitive relationship between social and private renting providers, this paper sets out the idea of a market structure in rental housing and makes a comparison between the situations in England and the Netherlands. In economic theory, market structure is defined by the degree of supply concentration, existing barriers to entry and exit, and the extent of product differentiation. In the theoretical part of the paper it is discussed how those three components apply to rental housing and why some changes of the original concept of market structure seem to be inevitable. The refined theoretical concept is then applied to rented housing in England and the Netherlands. On the one hand, the comparative approach will show that market structures can differ significantly across countries and with them the conditions for the competitive behavior of rental housing providers. On the other hand, it will reveal the methodological challenges that are involved with the analysis of rented housing, particularly private renting.OTB ResearchOTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen
Competition between social and private landlords: Exploring landlords’ perceptions of rivalry and the barriers to a rivalrous relationship in local housing markets
No full textGovernments in many countries have required social housing providers to operate more marketorientated and engage in commercial activities. Conversely, public authorities in some countries have tried to strengthen the role of the private rental sector in the provision of housing for lowincome households and homeless people. As a result, the once clear demarcation between the activities of social and private landlords appears to be shifting, which has possibly led to increased competitive pressure on both landlord groups. As part of a wider research project, this paper aims to shed light on the behavioral aspects of competition between social and private landlords. Drawing on data from thirty in-depth qualitative interviews with housing association managers, letting agents, and private landlords in two local housing markets, Coventry in England and Breda in the Netherlands, this study explores landlords’ perceptions of providers in the other rental sector, as well as the influence of the structure of the local rental market on these perceptions.OTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen
Competition between social and private rental housing
No full textIn the context of shifting regulatory approaches and changing provision structures in many Western rental housing systems, the notion of competition between social and private rental housing has received increasing attention from practitioners and academic researchers. This thesis explores and theorises the concept of inter-tenure competition in order to advance understanding of what it means in local and national market realities, as well as in business and political practices. Results indicate that competition in mixed markets is a complex matter, much of which is explained by the distinctive properties of social and private rental services. Inter-tenure competition is shown to be the interplay of structural and political conditions, individual and organisational business goals, and the perceptions and strategic decisions of both providers and consumers. The results suggest that the degree of competition relates to specific points in time and is mainly a question of which rental market segment one is looking at.Housing SystemsOTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen
Typologies of welfare state and housing regimes: Why to they differ?
No full textThis paper discusses the relation between typologies of welfare states and housing systems. An analysis of arguably the most prominent works in the two research fields, Esping-Andersen’s ‘The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’ and Kemeny’s classification of dualist/unitary housing markets, shows the authors’ similar explanations for the formation of distinct welfare states and housing systems respectively; yet, their empirical investigations lead to a diverging number of existing typologies. According to Kemeny, these different outcomes are an ‘anomaly’ that can be ascribed to an erroneous usage of the concept of corporatism in Esping-Andersen’s work. We develop the argument that this view might be misleading, since housing could just be a very specific policy field, which can significantly differ from the conceptualization of general welfare states. This argumentation suggests the necessity of new theoretical and methodological approaches to researching the place of housing in welfare systems.OTB onderzoekOTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen
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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