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Contracting welfare-to-work services: use and usefulness
Koning, Pierre - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2009
external provision of WTW services by municipalities. We estimate both the WTW-contracting decisions of Dutch municipalities … provision are (1) Contracting with other municipalities and/or (2) Contracting-out services to private providers. Our findings … other municipalities and the share of contracting out to private providers. Municipalities with low WTW budgets or facing …
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The Aggregation of Individual Distributive Preferences through the Distributive Liberal Social Contract : Normative Analysis.
Mercier-Ythier, Jean - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2010
We consider abstract social systems of private property, made of n individuals endowed with non-paternalistic interdependent preferences, who interact through exchanges on competitive markets and Pareto-efficient lumpsum transfers. The transfers follow from a distributive liberal social contract...
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Needs, Modes and Efficiency of Economic Organizations and Public Interventions in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
There has been a fundamental development in theory and understanding of market, private, collective and public organizations in recent years. This paper incorporates achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law,...
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Effects of work requirements on welfare migration
Edmark, Karin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007
This study tests for a migration response to the implementation of stricter rules for welfare benefit receipt, in the form of mandatory participation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in Stockholm town districts. The hypothesis is that welfare benefit prone individuals will choose...
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
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La demografia in Europa e in Us. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
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Jobcentre Plus or minus? Exploring the performance of Jobcentre Plus for non-jobseekers
Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Since April 2002 Jobcentre Plus has started to operate nationwide in the UK providing fully integrated benefit claiming and work placement/job-seeking activities for people of working age. This new organisation put an explicit work-focus in the delivery of the benefit system. Along with...
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Jobcentre Plus or Minus? Exploring the performance of Jobcentre Plus for non-jobseekers
Karagiannaki, Eleni - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005
Since April 2002 Jobcentre Plus has started to operate nationwide in the UK providing fully integrated benefit claiming and work placement/job-seeking activities for people of working age. This new organisation put an explicit work-focus in the delivery of the benefit system. Along with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510486
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Fiscal Rules and Window Dressing: The Case of Italian Municipalities
Balduzzi, Paolo; Grembi, Veronica - In: Giornale degli Economisti 70 (2011) 1, pp. 97-122
possibilities that fiscal rules trigger window dressing and creative finance. We use evidence from the Italian municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322864
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From age-friendly research to age-friendly city and age-friendly regional network: case of tuymazy and republic of Bashkortostan, Russian Federation
Minnigaleeva, Gulnara A. - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014
municipalities involved. The key success factors included: creating an agency to trigger, promote and implement age …
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