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One Welfare State for Europe: A Costly Utopia?
Hennessy, Peter; Warin, Thierry - In: Global Economy Journal 4 (2004) 2
monetary policy, Europe is faced with structural and fiscal concerns, as national growth levels differ. Another possible factor … an improvement if Europe is to take full advantage of the common market. However, the effects of expenditure levels may …
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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state
Kahanec, Martin; Myung‐Hee Kim, Anna; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: International Journal of Manpower 34 (2013) 1, pp. 39-55
general public in Europe has rather negative attitudes towards immigrants. Although the business community views immigrants …
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Is the Welfare State A Model For Transition?
Leube, Kurt R. - In: Journal des �conomistes et des �tudes Humaines 11 (2001) 1
Despite the fact that today only very few still regard the old socialist ideas with nationalization ofenterprises and central planning as a way to promote more efficient production, greater equality, or a more “just” distribution of income some of its conceptions nevertheless seem to have...
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New Paths for Third-Sector Institutions in a Welfare State in Crisis: The Case of Portugal
Ferreira, Sílvia - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 6 (2015) 2, pp. 213-241
Abstract This article describes the recent changes in the political, cultural and socioeconomic environment of the third sector (TS) in Portugal in the context of crisis and structural adjustment. Belatedly, when compared to many other countries, an overall sector is being structured in...
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(Re)constructing economic citizenship in a welfare state – intersections of gender and class
Hirsto, Heidi; Katila, Saija; Moisander, Johanna - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 33 (2014) 2, pp. 122-139
Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to discuss and illustrate how contemporary market discourses rearticulate socio-political relationships and identities, including the rights, duties, and opportunities of individuals and categories of individuals as citizens. More specifically, the purpose...
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The relationship between attitudes in Poland towards the decommodified welfare state with those on the communist economy and transition to a market economy
John Rae, Gavin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 2128-2140
Purpose The purpose of this paper is threefold: to examine social opinions in Poland towards the decommodified ideal type of welfare state, as developed by Esping-Andersen; to look at the extent to which this is correlated with opinions towards aspects of the Communist economy and the transition...
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Health care policies and resisting consumers in a prototypical welfare state
Lykke Hindhede, Anette - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 25 (2011) 5, pp. 549-563
Purpose – It has been argued by researchers from the Anglo‐Saxon nations that the rationality of the market has increasingly infiltrated the medical field. This paper seeks to enquire via policy analysis to what extent these principles have affected the prototypical welfare state of Denmark...
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Metaphors of change
Christensen, Louise - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 6 (2017) 2, pp. 116-128
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how a study of a practice can lay the foundation to describe this very practice whilst transformations of it were taken place. Descriptions of changes to the practice of social work which was observed empirically serve as a starting point for...
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Everyday interaction at the front-line
Lundberg, Kjetil G.; Syltevik, Liv Johanne - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 5 (2016) 2, pp. 152-166
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a sociological analysis of everyday interaction on the physical front line of the Norwegian welfare state. Design/methodology/approach – The data are from a short-term ethnographic study in the reception/waiting rooms of three local welfare...
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Is social Europe dead?
Gennard, John - In: Employee Relations 30 (2008) 6, pp. 589-593
to have a higher priority for the economic Europe (for example, labour market flexibility) than the social Europe (the … in Europe that EU member state government give as much priority to the social Europe as well as the economic Europe …. Originality/value – The editorial offers insights into the priority given to the social Europe relative to the economic Europe.  …
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