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Donna Baines - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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filling the gaps unpaid and precarious work in the nonprofit Social Services
Critical Social Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham, John ShieldsAbstract:Unpaid work has long been used in nonprofit/voluntary Social Services to extend paid work. Drawing on three case studies of nonprofit Social Services in Canada, this article argues that due to aust...
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caring for nothing work organization and unwaged labour in Social Services
Work Employment & Society, 2004Co-Authors: Donna BainesAbstract:Unwaged work is a widespread practice in the pro-market, non-market public and non-profit Social Services in Canada. Under performance-based models of public management new forms of work organization have standardized Social Services work and expanded the use of volunteers, including the volunteer labour of paid employees. Increasingly routinized work makes it easier for unwaged volunteers to assume work, and for managers to supervise it. New developments include heightened expectations from management and a willingness of workers to perform volunteer work in their own or other agencies. The article suggests that the unwaged Social Services workforce operates along a continuum with ‘compulsion’ at one end and ‘coercion’ on the other. As workers’ identities and knowledge base are tied to notions of altruism and caring, and there are often implicit threats to their continued employment, most workers are not refusing unwaged work. Rather they see this and other forms of unpaid work as resistance against an i...
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caring for nothing work organization and unwaged labour in Social Services
Work Employment & Society, 2004Co-Authors: Donna BainesAbstract:Unwaged work is a widespread practice in the pro-market, non-market public and non-profit Social Services in Canada. Under performance-based models of public management new forms of work organization have standardized Social Services work and expanded the use of volunteers, including the volunteer labour of paid employees. Increasingly routinized work makes it easier for unwaged volunteers to assume work, and for managers to supervise it. New developments include heightened expectations from management and a willingness of workers to perform volunteer work in their own or other agencies. The article suggests that the unwaged Social Services workforce operates along a continuum with ‘compulsion’ at one end and ‘coercion’ on the other. As workers’ identities and knowledge base are tied to notions of altruism and caring, and there are often implicit threats to their continued employment, most workers are not refusing unwaged work. Rather they see this and other forms of unpaid work as resistance against an increasingly alienating society, as well as a way to meet the needs of clients, relatives and friends.
John Shields - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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filling the gaps unpaid and precarious work in the nonprofit Social Services
Critical Social Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham, John ShieldsAbstract:Unpaid work has long been used in nonprofit/voluntary Social Services to extend paid work. Drawing on three case studies of nonprofit Social Services in Canada, this article argues that due to aust...
Michael Vlassopoulos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pro-Social Motivation and the Delivery of Social Services
2008Co-Authors: Patrick Francois, Michael VlassopoulosAbstract:This article provides an overview highlighting some major themes of the recent literature on the role of pro-Social motivation in the provision of Social Services. We focus on the insights obtained from two alternative ways of modelling pro-Social motivation; action-oriented and output-oriented altruism. This literature has implications regarding the design of optimal incentives, the selection of motivated agents and its interaction with monetary rewards, and the optimal organizational form required to exploit such motivations. We also discuss the implications for government provision of Social Services from the perspective of a parallel literature that emphasizes the non-contractible nature of output, and contrast it with the implications derived from work emphasizing the role of pro-Social motivation.
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Pro-Social Motivation and the Delivery of Social Services
CESifo Economic Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Patrick Francois, Michael VlassopoulosAbstract:This paper provides a selective overview highlighting some major themes of the recent literature on the role of pro-Social motivation in the provision of Social Services. We focus on the insights obtained from two alternative ways of modelling pro-Social motivation; action-oriented and output-oriented altruism. This literature has implications regarding the design of optimal incentives, the selection of motivated agents and its interaction with monetary rewards, and the optimal organizational form required to exploit such motivations. We also discuss the implications for government provision of Social Services from the perspective of a parallel literature that emphasizes the noncontractible nature of output, and contrast it with the implications derived from work emphasizing the role of pro-Social motivation.
Rebecca M Blank - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when can public policy makers rely on private markets the effective provision of Social Services
The Economic Journal, 2000Co-Authors: Rebecca M BlankAbstract:The privatisation of Social Services is being increasingly discussed. The Social Services market is characterised by multiple market failures, including informational asymmetries, agency problems, externalities, and distributional concerns. Consumers may care as much or more about quality of Services than about price. If quality is readily observable, the government can regulate private providers to assure standards are met. But when standards are difficult to observe or when the recipient is not the agent who makes the decisions, government ownership may be preferable. This paper categorises the market situations in which government provision of Social Services is likely to be most versus least attractive.
Brian Elbel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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health and Social Services expenditures associations with health outcomes
BMJ Quality & Safety, 2011Co-Authors: Elizabeth H Bradley, Benjamin R Elkins, Jeph Herrin, Brian ElbelAbstract:Objective: To examine variations in health service expenditures and Social Services expenditures across Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and assess their association with five population-level health outcomes. Design: A pooled, cross-sectional analysis using data from the 2009 release of the OECD Health Data 2009 Statistics and Indicators and OECD Social Expenditure Database. Setting: OECD countries (n¼30) from 1995 to 2005. Main outcomes: Life expectancy at birth, infant mortality, low birth weight, maternal mortality and potential years of life lost. Results: Health Services expenditures adjusted for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita were significantly associated with better health outcomes in only two of five health indicators; Social Services expenditures adjusted for GDP were significantly associated with better health outcomes in three of five indicators. The ratio of Social expenditures to health expenditures was significantly associated with better outcomes in infant mortality, life
