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Intimacy for Sale: Masculinity, Entrepreneurship, and Commodity Self in Japan's Neoliberal Situation
Takeyama, Akiko - 2010
This article examines the creation of entrepreneurial male subjects in Japan's host clubs. Based on my ethnographic study, I argue that hosts' entrepreneurship is constituted by commodifying themselves. This paradoxical - commodified, yet entrepreneurial - male subject is embedded in the new...
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Fixing the system? The experience of service users of the quasi-market in disability services in Australia
Spall, Pamela; McDonald, Catherine; Zetlin, Diane - 2005
A qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 31 people with disabilities and 32 carers in the state of Queensland, Australia, found that their experience of supportive service delivery had not improved despite reforms of the service delivery system driven by a version of the...
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Benchmarking of performance of Mexican states with effective coverage
Lozano, Rafael; Soliz, Patricia; Gakidou, Emmanuela; … - 2006
Benchmarking of the performance of states, provinces, or districts in a decentralised health system is important for fostering of accountability, monitoring of progress, identification of determinants of success and failure, and creation of a culture of evidence. The Mexican Ministry of Health...
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Risk adjustment for high utilizers of public mental health care
Kapur, Kanika; Young, Alexander S.; Murata, Dennis - 2000
Background: Publicly funded mental health systems are increasingly implementing managed care systems, such as … models for this population can be used to improve contracting for mental health care. Our objective is to develop risk …. Implications for Health Care Provision, Use, and Policy: Our results suggest that risk adjustment methods, as developed to data, do …
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Financial incentives and the health workforce
Scott, A; Connelly, LB - 2011
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Preference heterogeneity and choice of cardiac rehabilitation program: Results from a discrete choice experiment
Kjae, T; Gyrd-Hansen, D - 2008
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Bestuurstrategieë vir die optimalisering van die sorgfunksie van die skoolhoof / C.P. van der Vyver
Van der Vyver, Cornelius Petrus - 2011
Research problemThis research revolved around the problem: Which management strategies could be formulated and used in the caring role of the principal with regard to the educators?Research aimsArising from the problem, the aim of the research was firstly to describe the nature and determinants...
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THE ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Trifu, Alexandru; Juravle (Gavra), Ariadna-Ioana; … - 2017
Both the individuals and groups or the large organizations increasingly focus on responsibility: be it the responsibility in everyday actions or about the responsibility towards business partners, the environment, animals etc. the idea of assuming responsibility is becoming more and more present...
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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973
Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981
The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439137
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Productivity Spillovers Within Families and Firms
Papps, Kerry Liam - 2008
Survey of Youth 1979 are used and three different methods for measuring the probability of marriage and divorce are employed …. Consistent with theoretical predictions, married women are found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This … relationship holds both over an individual's life-cycle and across people with different inherent risks of divorce. The second …
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