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Baby boomers and retirement: dreams, fears and anxieties
No full textWhen it comes to retirement, most boomers are neither lucky nor confident about their future. Myra Hamilton and Clive Hamilton report that there is a sharp divide between the retirement prospects of rich and poor boomers, with the \u27lucky generation\u27 tag being reserved for a small affluent minority
Labour Market Risks and Sources of Welfare among European Youth in Times of Crisis
Get PDFYoung people excluded from labour market participation or trapped in precarious employment have come to represent a key policy concern in European countries. The vulnerable position of young people in the labour market threatens the sustainability of the European social model and its dual objectives of competitiveness and social cohesion. While the current economic crisis is exacerbating these risks across Europe, there is the potential for greater differentiation to emerge in the extent to which young people experience these risks in different countries as a result of different labour market characteristics, familial norms and welfare policies. Drawing on 120 interviews with young people in 10 European countries (carried out for the 7th FP WILCO project), this chapter aims to provide a comparative analysis of young peoples' experiences of precariousness and unemployment. The chapter analyses young Europeans' experiences of precariousness, identifying five different 'profiles' of precariousness on the basis of age, educational experience, work experience and unemployment/inactivity spells, and the presence and quality of a professional goal or project. The analysis focuses on the ambiguous character of precariousness, which can represent both opportunities and constraints for different or even for the same people, but it is most likely to become a trap for the weakest profiles. The chapter also provides an analysis of the 'resource packages' that young people rely on, based on combinations of market exchange (private training or employment services), redistribution (public welfare), or reciprocity (primary and secondary networks, third sector programmes), and the extent to which these underpin young peoples' agency. The way in which different welfare contexts contribute to the configuration of risks faced by young people with precarious attachment to the workforce, and of the resources upon which they can draw, is also discussed
Rich boomer, poor boomer: retirement prospects for the not-so-lucky generation
No full text The depiction of the baby boomers as the \u27lucky generation\u27 is wrong according to a report by Myra Hamilton and Clive Hamilton. There is a sharp divide between the retirement prospects of rich and poor boomers, with the \u27lucky generation\u27 tag being reserved for a small affluent minority. When it comes to retirement, most boomers are neither lucky nor confident about their future. The first baby boomers are now starting to retire, a phenomenon with far-reaching social and policy implications explored in this paper, which is part of a larger research project being undertaken by the Australia Institute. Baby boomers have attracted considerable hostility and envy from other generations for their good fortune, perhaps most notoriously their access to free higher education and their luck with the booming property market. As they approach retirement, the boomers are at the forefront of another significant social change. For much of the twentieth century, retirement was understood as a distinct phase of life that began when full-time work stopped and the worker began living on a pension or their own savings. In more recent times, the line between working full-time and not working has become blurred, with many favouring partial retirement or looking to find other ways of earning income after they leave full-time employment. At the vanguard of this change, boomers are depicted as the generation that never wants to retire. But this popular view is simplistic and conceals as much as it reveals about the retirement prospects of baby boomers. The boomer generation is often misunderstood as a homogeneous generation, and claims about the behaviour of boomers approaching retirement actually disguise the very diverse circumstances within the generation. Baby boomers entered the workforce when the predominant form of retirement funding was the age pension. Now, as they approach retirement having spent time in the workforce and in unpaid caring and domestic roles, the emphasis has shifted to private provision through superannuation. The boomer generation was 30-45 years old when the Superannuation Guarantee Charge was introduced in 1992 and therefore sits right in the centre of the transition between the age pension and superannuation
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
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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