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Die Rolle von Street-Level Bureaucrats bei der Erbringung von öffentlichen Leistungen: Eine empirische Untersuchung
Kabaali, Daphne - 2022
schools, this paper examines the extent to which trust in clients influences the use of discretionary powers by school social … lower level of trust in clients ensures that school social workers attempt to reduce their workload through coping … strategies such as rationing resources and mentally withdrawing from clients. A higher level of trust in clients, on the other …
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MDG Achievements, Determinants, and Resource Needs: What Has Been Learnt?
Lay, Jann - 2010
This paper reviews the effectiveness and efficiency of key policy instruments for MDG (Millennium Development Goals) achievement. We first demonstrate that average MDG progress is likely to be too slow to meet the education and health sector targets in a number of developing countries. We also...
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Cross-border delivery of public services: How useful are EGTCs?
Jaansoo, Annika; Groenendijk, Nico - 2014
The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) is a European legal instrument designed to facilitate and promote cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation. It was introduced in 2006 to enable public authorities of various Member States to team up and deliver joint...
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Return-on-investment of public investments to systems which provide public services - a case study
Pichova, Simona; Stejskal, Jan - 2015
In recent years there have been frequent efforts to analyse the systems for providing public production and propose to increase the productivity and find alternative service-delivery mechanisms based on public-choice assumptions and perspectives. It is used an approach New public services, which...
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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - 2012
Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments.Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may avoid that people follow the bad example of litterers,they may also invite...
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Public services and the GATS
Adlung, Rolf - 2005
The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach that focuses on the legal and institutional conditions governing supply (e.g. ownership status,...
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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru
Chong, Alberto; Hentschel, Jesko; Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime - 2004
Using panel data for Peru for the period 1994-2000, we find that when households receive two or more services jointly, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided separately. Such an increase appears to be more than...
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Productivity Change in Public Service - The Case of Swedish Social Insurance Offices
Bjurek, Hans; Hjalmarsson, Lennart; Forsund, Finn R. - 1989
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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal
Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - 2014
Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352412
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Leitthema Daseinsvorsorge
Vallée, Dirk - In: Neuaufstellung des Zentrale-Orte-Konzepts in …, (pp. 62-69). 2016
Die Konzentration der Daseinsvorsorgeeinrichtungen sowie die Zuordnung derselben zu den Siedlungsbereichen sind angesichts des demografischen Wandels wichtige Maßnahmen zur Sicherung der Tragfähigkeit der Daseinsvorsorge sowie der Erreichbarkeit der Standorte. Der Beitrag beschreibt anhand...
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