Informal and Formal Care in Europe Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women’s informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for attrition, the estimates – based on the European Community Household P...

This paper presents an approach to applying a visual annotation system for informal learning through knowledge exchange between physicians in post-graduate training in general medicine. The system is part of an online platform for creating and sharing physician-generated medical cases from their work practice. Collaborative visual annotations of medical images are used to support knowledge exch...

In computer-supported cooperative work and computer-mediated communication several concepts and systems for remote interaction have been developed within the last decades. For instance, media spaces are systems that ‘support distributed work groups through access to information that supports general awareness’, which ‘may lead to informal interactions, spontaneous connections...’ [5]. They were...

This paper presents the results from a study on issues for sociability and usability for legitimate peripheral participation in online communities. Informal learning is considered to occur within the individual in a selforganized way and within the community as consensus knowledge building. A catalogue for usability and sociability evaluation criteria was developed, in order to identify the two...

We describe some tools to support distributed cooperative design and validation of software systems. Workers at di erent sites can collaborate on tasks including speci cation, re nement, validation, veri cation, and documentation. A distributed database supports alternative and incomplete activities, and can be read using any web browser; remote proof execution, animation, and informal explanat...

Despite the surge of interest in platform cooperatives, we have a limited understanding dynamics worker-member participation these cooperatives. Drawing on interviews with 21 senior leaders and founders worker investigate participation, finding that cooperatives experience some successes many challenges. We then build theory about how four distinct features cooperatives—the facilitation multiho...

As it is well known, the theory of cooperative games finds applications in many fields. The goal of this paper is to highlight some applications of cooperative games, resulting from the cooperation between the Universities of Bergamo and Krakow, and some related open problems. The paper is organized in three main sections. The first deals with the description of some specific fields where the t...

This paper investigates the state of programmed informal learning (e.g., team competitions, internships) in engineering education, the relevant research and available assessment instruments. Our purpose is to synthesize the existing informal learning research in engineering education for the engineering community, which should subsequently lead to the development of improved programs and learni...

Women represent the majority of informal sector workers in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists concerning the relationship between teen fertility and the likelihood that a woman will be employed in the informal sector. Using a panel survey in Madagascar designed to capture the transition from adolesce...

This paper argues that the interfaces between formal and informal care-giving are changing as a result of two current trends; the increased scope of home-based nursing care and the emphasis on participation both within nursing and in the wider health and social care arenas. These various changes are explored in relation to the provision of intensive and complex nursing care in the home. It will...