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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN RURAL-URBAN WAGE GAP FOR ROMANIA: A BLINDER-OAXACA DECOMPOSITION
Full text linkEducation resides in schooling and training. In addition to knowledge and competences, the first contributes
in acquiring a proper thinking and good behaviour. Training focuses on gaining the know-how for doing a specific task
while schooling fails if it does not complement training and go beyond it. Both directions are relevant in order to tear
down bricks in the wall of the rural-urban wage gaps. Nothing endures without education and as long as this is not
consolidated in the rural environment, existing wage-gaps may continue to grow. Such an aspect will furthermore
impact positively the migration phenomenon reducing its burden on the Romanian economy, as the low educated with a
suitable training tend to migrate abroad or internally to urban areas in search of unqualified jobs with higher
earnings.
The current study aims to determine the drivers of the differences in earnings between rural and urban
workers by using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method. The results show that rural workers get paid less than
their urban counterparts. Individual’s level of education has a positive effect on wages for both rural and urban
workers. This also implies a greater positive effect for workers in urban environment. The results also indicate that an
important part of wage inequality is explained by education. As a result, less and high educated workers from rural
area will be rewarded relatively, on average, less than their counterparts from urban area
SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT OF CPI FOR MILLING AND BAKING PRODUCTS MONTHLY EVOLUTION AS AGAINST DECEMBER PREVIOUS YEAR IN ROMANIA – COMPARISON BETWEEN JDEMETRA+ 2.2.4 AND JDEMETRA+ 3.0.0
Full text linkIn the present context, the consumption and saving patterns are subjected to change both locally and
worldwide. The evidence on consumption reveals the importance of data handling and processing using the most
relevant tools available. This research paper looks into official statistics data of Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) for
milling and baking products and is based on seasonal adjustment. As such, JDemetra+ software is selected as officially
recommended by Eurostat for seasonal adjustment.
First section presents the official software recommended by Eurostat for seasonal adjustment, while section two
discusses the characteristics and functionalities of the software. Furthermore, the following section presents the
selected seasonal adjustment technique and describes the usage of monthly data. Section four analysing the results of
all the seasonality tests for the selected series is followed next by a brief concluding remarks and observations section.
Moreover, in terms of the conducted analysis, the paper examines to test JDemetra+ 3.0.0 pre-release version against
JDemetra+ 2.2.4.
Evidence favouring JDemetra+ 2.2.4 is obtained, the results showing that some new strategies might be needed
in order to obtain better results on seasonal adjustment process using TRAMO-SEATS in JDemetra+ 3.0.0. Seasonal
adjustment practitioners in official statistics should be aware and recognize the impact of statistical package selection.
In this respect, optimal selection of analysis procedures is needed in the evaluation of a series and thus migrating from
JDemetra+ 2.2.4 to JDemetra+ 3.0.0 is problematic without employing resources in developing appropriate strategies
for improvement of the obtained results
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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