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What Determines the Quality of Job Training Services? A Multi-Level Analysis for Austria.
No full textWithin the last few decades, the provision of social services was and still is changing in many ways: due to ideological changes and cost containment efforts, the public sector has been gradually withdrawing from his dual role as financier and provider of social services. The public sector now prefers acting as a financier rather than a provider. It purchases services on behalf of service users, while private sector organizations assume the responsibility for service provision. Recently, European rules for public procurement policies and the efforts to liberalize service markets have promoted changes in the funding relationship between public entities on the one hand and nonprofit or forprofit organisations on the other hand. Increasingly, in terms of instruments the public sector follows a contractual approach to managing its relationship with private and nonprofit organizations. Performance related forms of funding are becoming gradually more important whereas funding via grants is on the decline. Moreover, modes of public procurement are relying more heavily on competitive processes. (...) (author´s abstract)Series: Working Papers / Institut für Sozialpoliti
Im Dienst Sozialer Dienste: Ökonomische Analyse der Beschäftigung in sozialen Dienstleistungseinrichtungen des Nonprofit Sektors
Full text linkIn der Versorgung von benachteiligten Menschen mit sozialen Dienstleistungen spielen Nonprofit Organisationen eine wesentliche Rolle. Dieses Buch befasst sich zunächst aus ökonomischer Sicht mit den charakteristischen Eigenschaften sozialer Dienstleistungen und fokussiert im Anschluss daran auf die Beschäftigung in sozialen Dienstleistungseinrichtungen des Nonprofit Sektors. Ein Set von zentralen Forschungsfragen leitet diese Studie: Aus theoretischer Sicht interessierten die ökonomischen Bestimmungsgründe und Besonderheiten des Arbeitskräfteeinsatzes in diesen Einrichtungen. Der empirische Teil gibt einen detaillierten Einblick in die Methodik der Erhebung und in die Ergebnisse der Analysen zum Beschäftigungsvolumen und zur Beschäftigungsstruktur in Sozialen Diensten des österreichischen Nonprofit Sektors
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
Informelle Pflege und Betreuung älterer Menschen durch erwerbstätige Personen in Wien. Darstellung von Dimension und Struktur auf Basis bisheriger Erhebungen.
No full textOverview of relavant satistical data sources, statistical sources on caring and informal care, surveys conducted by research institutes,census by Statistik Austria, Care needs of the elderly in Vienna, informal care and support of the elderly. (author´s abstract)Series: Forschungsberichte des Forschungsinstituts für Altersökonomi
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
Usability and user experience of ‘CARIMO’ after initial training and over time. The home care service users’ perspective in Austria and Italy.
Full text linkSeries: Forschungsberichte des Forschungsinstituts für Altersökonomi
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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