A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...

This paper analyzes migrant organizational engagement by focusing on involvement in political and service-delivery organizations in several European cities. Do organizational involvement patterns show a common trait by which migrants are mostly engaged in service delivery organizations rather...

1. Emerging from the crisis : the transformation of public service employment relations? / Stephen Bach and Lorenzo Bordogna -- 2. Greece : public service employment relations: adjustment and reforms / Christos A. Ioannou -- 3. Spain : rationalization without modernization: public service...

Purpose This paper analyzes individual subjective well-being using a survey database from the Strasbourg metropolitan development council (France). The authors focus on the effects of externalities generated by public services (transport, culture and sport), environmental quality and feeling of...