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Salute disuguale nel reddito minimo. Dinamiche d’impoverimento e percorsi d’inclusione socio-lavorativa
No full textThe relationship between health and poverty is a topic that has been the subject of considerable debate, extending beyond the obvious connection between a lack of resources and negative effects on physical and mental well-being (Cardano 2009; Marmot 2010; Mascagni 2010). Poverty is also associated with social exclusion, leading to a general state of disadvantage characterised by incapacity, difficulty, or discrimination in accessing important activities and aspects of social life. This condition of material deprivation and social isolation, especially when prolonged over time, exposes individuals to risks of vulnerability and situations of uncertainty, discomfort, and inadequacy, which have the potential to undermine their physical and mental health. In this context, anti-poverty policies and income support interventions are of crucial importance. Over the past seven years, Italy has made significant strides in its efforts to combat poverty by implementing a national minimum income scheme, marking a notable shift in its approach to anti-poverty policies (Gori 2020). This study examines the "Citizenship Income" (Reddito di Cittadinanza, RdC) approved in 2019 (Decree-Law No. 4 of 28 January 2019), which will be replaced by two other measures starting in 2024. This contribution examines the role of individual and/or family health conditions in the mechanisms of slipping into poverty and how health status affects the possibilities of social and work inclusion, which are two objectives that accompany the monetary component within minimum income schemes.
The article is structured into three main sections. The first is dedicated to the theoretical-conceptual framework of the topic, summarising the debate on health and inequalities. The second focuses on the research context and methodological aspects. The third presents the results. A concluding paragraph summarises the emerging issues
Il lavoro come mezzo o come fine? Costruzione dei percorsi di inclusione lavorativa e aspettative dei beneficiari
No full textThe chapter examines the pathways to labour market integration, starting from the way the subject is treated in the literature, through the definition of objectives, the choice of instruments and the expectations of the beneficiaries. The analysis reveals that, despite the chapter's emphasis on the internal operations of the employment centres (CPI), whose primary goal, even within the RDC framework, is job placement, the findings indicate a different reality. If the mandate of job centres interprets work as an 'end' of the pathways, it is often instead conceived as a 'means', especially with a view to social inclusion, in ways similar to those that characterise social services. This creates a stark contrast between the mission of the centres and the activities and projects they manage to implement
Contrasting Poverty through Inclusive Governance: the Local Implementation of the National Minimum Income Scheme in Italy
No full textThis contribution presents the preliminary results emerging from the first research phase of the PRoject of National Interest (PRIN) named CoPInG (Contrasting Poverty through Inclusive Governance). The research is financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and relies on the collaboration of the University of Trento, the Polytechnic University of Milan, the University of Turin and the University of Bologna. The aim of the project is the comparative analysis of the local implementation of the Italian National Minimum Income Schemes in four Northern Regions. The research focuses on a reconstruction of the regional multi-governance systems concerning the fight against poverty and how they impacted the national measures. The paper addresses the issue of vertical governance, as a field to analyze the interaction between the regional level and local actors. The Regions of interest are: Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. They are within the richest and most developed Regions in Italy, but – after the 2008 financial crisis – they have been interested by an increase of long- term unemployment and poverty rate. Moreover, it is interesting to study the implementation of the RdC in contexts already well-equipped from a social policies point of view
Contrasting Poverty through Inclusive Governance: the Local Implementation of the National Minimum Income Scheme in Italy
No full textThis contribution presents the preliminary results emerging from the first research phase of the PRoject of National Interest (PRIN) named CoPInG (Contrasting Poverty through Inclusive Governance). The research is financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) and relies on the collaboration of the University of Trento, the Polytechnic University of Milan, the University of Turin and the University of Bologna. The aim of the project is the comparative analysis of the local implementation of the Italian National Minimum Income Schemes in four Northern Regions. The research focuses on a reconstruction of the regional multi-governance systems concerning the fight against poverty and how they impacted the national measures. The paper addresses the issue of vertical governance, as a field to analyze the interaction between the regional level and local actors. The Regions of interest are: Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. They are within the richest and most developed Regions in Italy, but – after the 2008 financial crisis – they have been interested by an increase of long- term unemployment and poverty rate. Moreover, it is interesting to study the implementation of the RdC in contexts already well-equipped from a social policies point of view
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
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