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Love can hurt, divorce will cost
No full textDivorce has far reaching financial consequences with an immediate impact on lifestyle and disposable income and a potentially significant long-term impact on wealth accumulation, according to the latest AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report, by Simon Kelly and Ann Harding
Household debt in Australia: walking the tightrope
No full textIn the 1960s and 1970s Australians were big believers in having a nest egg of savings set away for a rainy day. Since then times have changed. In the ninth AMP/NATSEM Income and Wealth Report, Ann Harding, Simon Kelly and Rebecca Cassells investigate Australians\u27 relationship with debt and the profile of debt consumption in Australia, with particular focus on household savings, household debt, housing loans, use of credit cards, personal loans, and HECS debts
May the labour force be with you
No full textOver the last couple of decades the Australian labour force has grown significantly, with 3.2 million more people in the labour force today than in 1985. Within this overall growth, the proportion of women in the paid labour force has increased dramatically. In the twelfth AMP NATSEM Income and Wealth Report, Simon Kelly, Tom Bolton and Ann Harding examine the extent and consequences of the changes in employment patterns
There's no business like small business
No full textOf all the private sector businesses in Australia, 96 per cent are small businesses with fewer than twenty employees and around two in every five private sector workers are employed in a small business. In the eleventh AMP-Natsem Income and Wealth Report, Shih-Foong Chin, Simon Kelly and Ann Harding examine the large, but understated, contribution small business makes to the economy and society
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
Self provision in retirement? Forecasting future household wealth
No full textThe costs associated with an ageing population in Australia are putting increasing pressure on the fiscal resources of the government. This pressure will intensify as the proportion of elderly doubles over the next few decades. Under this increasing fiscal pressure, the government will be increasingly looking to individuals to provide for themselves. This paper considers what capacity older Australians have to provide financially for themselves. In this paper Simon Kelly finds that if the traditional measure of wellbeing - incomes - is used, then they have very little capacity to contribute to the cost of their retirement. Almost all of those currently aged 65 and over rely almost entirely on the government-funded Age Pension. Despite the modest level of the pension (indexed at one-quarter of average weekly earnings), only 17% of current retirees have private income that matches or exceeds the pension. Taking a broader economic view - including wealth - provides a very different perspective. Those aged 65 and over currently have an estimated 22 per cent share of total household wealth and this proportion is likely to increase to 47 per cent by 2031. By including this wealth in the evaluation of capacity to contribute to the costs of retirement, it appears there is considerable scope for self-provision
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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