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Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision
Revelli, Federico - 2004
This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...
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Corporate monitoring by blockholders in Europe: empirical evidence of managerial disciplining in Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK
Dherment-Ferere, Isabelle; Köke, Jens; Renneboog, Luc - 2001
This study examines managerial disciplining in poorly performing firms using large panels for Belgian, French, German and UK firms. We consider the monitoring role of large blockholders, the market for share blocks, creditors, and non-executive directors. Board restructuring is correlated to...
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Wage effects of recruitment methods: the case of the Italian social service sector
Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - 2008
This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...
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The Lithuanian long-term care system
Marcinkowska, Izabela - 2010
The remarkable growth of older population has moved long-term care to the front ranks of the social policy agenda in the European Union. This paper addresses the issue of the longterm care in Lithuania, its philosophy, the legal and funding regularities, management issues and LTC policy. Its...
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The system of long-term care in the Czech Republic
Sowa, Agnieszka - 2010
Developing responsive to needs, efficient and sustainable long-term care systems for elderly becomes due to rising demographic pressures an urgent issue all over Europe. Czech Republic is among the countries that have redesigned long-term care system according the principles of accessibility,...
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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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A theory of the informal sector
Azuma, Yoshiaki; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2002
In many countries, especially poor countries, a heavy burden of taxes, bribes, and bureaucratic hassles drives many producers into the informal sector. Is this situation explicable only as a consequence of either the ignorance or the ineptitude of the state authorities? On the contrary this...
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Social work practice in health care with special reference to Pakistan
Malik, Abdul; Sarfaraz, Syeda Farhana - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 6 (2012) 1, pp. 210-215
Traditionally, social work in mental and physical health has been practiced from the perspective of the bio-psycho-social model. Now there is developing scientific evidence that physical health problems cannot produce psychological and social environmental problems for people, but to some...
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Gesellschaftlich notwendige Dienstleistungen im Wirtschaftskreislauf – Auswirkungen auf Entgelthöhen und regionale Disparitäten der Beschäftigung
Sonnenburg, Anja; Thobe, Ines; Wolter, Marc Ingo - 2021
Ein funktionierendes Gemeinwesen, individuelle Teilhabe und die Bewältigung von Krisen – all das ist ohne die erfolgreiche Erbringung von Dienstleistungen in kritischen Bereichen nicht denkbar. Das Projekt „Gesellschaftlich notwendige Dienstleistungen sicherstellen: Ist Arbeit am Gemeinwohl...
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Welsh budgetary trade-offs to 2019-2020
Phillips, David; Simpson, Polly - 2016
government continued to want to balance its budget. Wales is therefore looking at an extraordinary ten or more years of … the independent Wales Public Services 2025 Programme based at Cardiff Business School, looking at the challenges facing … government in Wales at they set their tax and spending policies. It also predicts the UK economic and fiscal situation …
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