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On Hospital Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
Herr, Annika - 2009
) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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Applications of Solar Technology for Catastrophe Response, Claims Management, and Loss Prevention
Deering, A.; Thornton, J.P. - 2008
discuss how energy efficiency and renewable technologies can contribute to reducing insurance losses. …Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and … the Insurance Industry.'' Presentations were made by insurance company representatives, insurance trade groups, government …
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Solar technology and the insurance industry: Issues and applications
Deering, A.; Thornton, J. P. - 2008
Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and …-disaster planning and mitigation alternatives. It will also discuss how energy efficiency and renewable technologies can contribute to … reducing insurance losses and offer suggestions on how to collaborate with the utility industry and how to develop educational …
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Szerencsi kistérség. A kistérségben élő gyermekek, fiatalok és családjaik helyzetének, igényeinek és szükségleteinek felmérése 2014
Perpék, Éva - 2014
Országos viszonylatban a szerencsi fiatalos kistérségnek számít. A kistérségben alacsony az aktív munkaerőpiaci részvétel és magas a munkanélküliség. Ebben a szűkös munkahelykínálaton kívül a lakosság alacsony iskolázottsági szintje is szerepet játszik. (.)
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Social policies and emotions in Latin America: A theoretical approach to their analysis
Scribano, Adrián; Sena, Angélica De; Cena, Rebeca B. - 2015
This article aims at making a conceptual analysis of the links between social policies, emotions and World Images. It tries to frame the theoretical and epistemic plots of subjacent assumptions that involve (and activate) State interventions on "the social". The following is the argumentative...
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Welfare state in uncertainty: Disparity in social expectations and attitudes
Kutsenko, Olga; Gorbachyk, Andrii - 2014
In this paper we estimate empirically a prospective type of welfare regime for Ukraine through testing the correspondence between ideal types of welfare regimes and mass attitudes to state support of individual well-being. In accordance with G.Esping-Andersen’s classification (1990), we...
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Cooperation and exclusion: An explorative analysis of collaborative networks of hungarian disability organizations
Keszi, Roland; Pál, Judit; Papp, Gergő - 2014
organizations are disability organizations in contact with? (2) what influences selection of partner organizations? (3) in what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752041
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Our Kids: On the Book of R. D. Putnam
Perhócs, Péter - 2016
In Our Kids Robert D. Putnam presents a series of portraits of the contrasting lives of young Americans from more and less privileged backgrounds, putting considerable emphasis on the issues of marriage, families and parenting, school system and the matters of educational segregation,...
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Social investment in the Baltic states: Benefits against poverty and distribution of social risks over the life course
Skuciene, Daiva; Lazutka, Romas - 2019
Prevention against social risks through investment in human capital serves as the main focus of social investment. The social investment perspective suggests that social protection benefits should ensure adequate income maintenance over the life course. The goal of the current study is twofold:...
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A housing regime unchanged: The rise and fall of foreign-currency loans in Hungary
Csizmady, Adrienne; Hegedüs, József; Vonnák, Diána - 2019
This paper analyzes the expansion and crisis of the foreign-currency (FX) loan market and responding mortgage-rescue programs in Hungary. We assess changes in the housing regime and illustrate the process through analyzing interactions between individual and institutional (state, financial...
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