This paper marshals a variety of different types of evidence in considering the degree of equity in the government's treatment of children vis-a-vis adults, particularly the current elderly. The paper begins by showing that poverty rates of children have, over the past two decades, risen...

Education is usually the most important predictor of political and social engagement. Over the last half century, educational levels in the United States have risen sharply, yet levels of political and social participation have not. Norman Nie, Jane Junn, and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry (NJS-B) have...

Since the move to quasi-federalism in the 1990s, different territorial welfare mixes on adult social care (ASC) have emerged in the four nations of the UK. This study explores policy actors’ views on their effectiveness in the pandemic with reference to the role of institutions, trust and...

Persisting social exclusion is one of the key issues the European Union Member States have to handle according to the headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy. In the Czech Republic, more than 1 million people - 12.5% of the whole population - lived in the year 2019 at risk of poverty or...

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...

After the three international social work bodies, namely IASSW, ICSW and IFSW came together to evolve with the Global Agenda, sustainable development has taken the centerstage in social work discourses. This paper emphasises the importance of embracing sustainable development within the social...

The Russian version of this paper can be found at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3698546The article reviews the changes of the service provision system, especially the structure of the Hungarian social care. Firstly, theoretical and international backgrounds of the topic are...

This study focuses on network effects' in the utilization of publicly funded prenatal care using Vital Statistics data from California for 1989 to 2000. Networks are defined using 5-digit zipcodes and a woman's racial or ethnic group. Like others, we find evidence that the use of public programs...

Purpose - This paper explores how the introduction of new accounting information influences understandings of cost-consciousness. Furthermore, the paper explores how managers use accounting information to shape organizational members’ understanding of changes, and how focusing on...

Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...

Many street-level bureaucrats (such as caseworkers) have the dual task of helping some clients, while sanctioning others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the implications of its personnel policy on the self-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ...

Interest in religious organizations as providers of social services has increased dramatically in recent years. Churches in the U.S. were a crucial provider of social services through the early part of the twentieth century, but their role shrank dramatically with the expansion in government...

This policy brief provides a discussion of the relationships between austerity, Greece's macroeconomic performance, debt sustainability, and the provision of healthcare and other social services over the last decade. It explains that austerity was imposed in the name of debt sustainability....

In der Corona-Pandemie erfahren soziale Dienstleistungsberufe als "systemrelevante Berufe" eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit und öffentliche Wertschätzung. Vielfach wurde in der Vergangenheit darauf hingewiesen, dass soziale Arbeit in Deutschland strukturell unterbewertet ist. Auch wenn die akute...

This paper analyses the inefficiency of social services targeting in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FB&H). Using official statistics microdata of the Household Budget Survey 2015, three models of social minimum in FB&H were constructed: extreme and general poverty, and the model with...

This policy brief provides a discussion of the relationships between austerity, Greece's macroeconomic performance, debt sustainability, and the provision of healthcare and other social services over the last decade. It explains that austerity was imposed in the name of debt sustainability....

In this paper, we simulate the effects of an increase in the levels of public spending in health care and social assistance in the Chinese economy, and examine its global effects, i.e., the effects on the main macroeconomic variables of seven regions of the world economy, namely, China, Japan,...

In der Corona-Pandemie erfahren soziale Dienstleistungsberufe als "systemrelevante Berufe" eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit und öffentliche Wertschätzung. Vielfach wurde in der Vergangenheit darauf hingewiesen, dass soziale Arbeit in Deutschland strukturell unterbewertet ist. Auch wenn die akute...

Introduction -- The Orthodoxy of Family Care -- Changes in Aging in the Rural Towns of the Eastern Region -- Heterodox Ideas of Elder Care: From Nursing Homes to Savings -- Alterodox Practices of Elder Care: Domestic Service and Neighborliness -- "Loneliness Kills": Stimulating Sociality among...

Bedeutung und Stellung des Sozialrechts -- System des Sozialrechts -- Übergreifende Grundlagen der Sozialversicherung -- Zweige der Sozialversicherung -- Soziale Fürsorge und Hilfen -- Soziale Versorgung und Entschädigungen -- Soziale Förderung -- Menschen mit Behinderung.

What do frontline social service providers do during client interactions when they lack adequate formal organizational resources to respond to clients' needs? To answer this question, this Element presents two large-scale qualitative studies of Israeli frontline providers of social services....

This working paper provides data confirming that workers in lower-skilled health and social care assistant positions earn considerably less than the national average wage in their country. The publication argues that the wage penalty for working in female-dominated sectors and occupations such...

Development of social services in Bulgaria is predetermined by the policies of last decades of the last century and is characterized by a number of features arising from the difficult transition to a market economy and modern challenges of dynamic social and economic environment. Social services...