Sökning: "welfare policies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 179 avhandlingar innehållade orden welfare policies.

1. 1. Governing Welfare : The third sector and the challenges to the Swedish Welfare State

   Författare :Johan Vamstad; Victor Pestoff; Ingemar Wörlund; Sten Berglund; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Welfare State; Third Sector; Childcare; Challenges to the Welfare State; Civil Society; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The overall issue addressed in this thesis is the challanges to the Swedish welfare state. This topic has been the subject of several different interpretations in the academic as well as political debate in Sweden over the last decade. LÄS MER

3. 2. Att välja välfärd : Politiska berättelser om valfrihet

   Författare :Matilde Millares; Jouni Reinikainen; Göran Bergström; Paula Blomqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ideologies; convergence; party politics; Sweden; welfare; Social Democrats; Moderates; education; healthcare; equality; equity; need; public; private; market; state; democracy; representation; citizens; freedom; choice; morphology; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Welfare, and the role of social democracy in defining its content and meaning, is often described as one of Sweden’s distinguishing features. However, in the quest for liberalization and marketization, reforms in past decades have substantially changed the political landscape. LÄS MER

4. 3. Trygghet som handelsvara : Privat folkförsäkring i det framväxande välfärdssamhället 1900–1950

   Författare :Alf Sjöblom; Orsi Husz; Nils Edling; Niklas Stenlås; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Industrial Life Insurance; Industrial Assurance; Insurance; Welfare; Welfare State; Social Policy; Marketing; Governmentality; Social Engineering; Actuarial; Sweden; 20th Century; Trust; Agency System; History; historia;

   Sammanfattning : Industrial Life Insurance (ILI) was introduced in Sweden in the beginning of the 1900s. Following models already used in the United Kingdom and the United States, this insurance was specifically aimed at manual labourers, promising pension savings and compensation to surviving relatives. LÄS MER

5. 4. From Welfare to Work : Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs

   Författare :Lillit Ottosson; Eva Mörk; Anna Sjögren; Ulrika Vikman; Alexander Willén; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social assistance; Welfare; Labor supply; Public sector employment programs; Cost-shifting; Dynamic inverse probability weighting; Refugees; Integration; Active labor market policies; Language support; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay I: I study the effects of increased social assistance (SA) generosity by exploiting exogenous variation induced by a ruling in the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court in 1993, mandating local governments to provide a minimum level of untied SA payments. The new rule forced some local governments to increase their SA generosity, while others were unaffected as they already complied with the stricter standards. LÄS MER

7. 5. Welfare Effects of Transport Policies : an analysis of congestion pricing and infrastructure investments

   Författare :Jonas Westin; Lars-Göran Mattsson; Lars Hultkrantz; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; congestion charge; cost-benefit analysis; tax distortions; transport investment; transport policies; welfare effects; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur; SRA - Transport; SRA - Transport;

   Sammanfattning : Interactions between the transport market and other distorted markets, such as the labor market, can have a large impact on the overall welfare effect of a road pricing policy or a congestion charge. Many road pricing studies therefore try to incorporate effects from other distorted markets in the analysis. LÄS MER