Search results for " structural reforms"
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Developement of the Centers of Vocational Education in Latvia
2015
The purpose of this study was to find impact factors and results of stuctural reforms of vocational education in Latvia. The objective was to find that during 4 years period reforms started as planned, but did not continued planned way. It may impact vocational education of Latvia in future. This study used analysis of 12 documents impacting reforms. One of basic results is creating Centers of Competence of vocational education. Findings are focused on creating factors and results of these centers. Author shows purposes and criterias of reforms, development on time axis, and results and impact factors of creation of the Centers of Vocational Education, gives suggestions for further reforms.
Structural reforms in a debt overhang
2014
We assess the effects of reforms in product and labor markets in a model economy featuring credit restrictions and pre-existing long-term debt. Both elements, which are core features of the current scenario faced by some euro area countries, combine to produce a slow and protracted deleveraging of the private sector and a persistent recession following a negative financial shock. In this environment, we show that product and labor market reforms may stimulate output and employment even in the short run, despite their defl ationary effects. Furthermore, by favoring a faster recovery of investment and collateral values, product market reforms bring forward the end of deleveraging and the exit…
La racionalidad y la sostenibilidad como figuras míticas en el desmontaje del sistema público de servicios sociales
2014
Este artículo constituye un balance de los cambios que se están produciendo en el sistema de servicios sociales de la Comunidad Valenciana: 1) Una contextualización en un eje histórico que concluye con la actual búsqueda de un “consenso retrógrado” para desmontar el sistema público y los movimientos sociales de resistencia; 2) El desplazamiento de la contención social de la crisis desde el sistema de servicios sociales al de seguridad social; 3) Las transformaciones institucionales producidas por la vía presupuestaria; 4) El “efecto bumerang” sobre los Servicios Sociales que produce la implementación de la Ley de “promoción de la autonomía personal y apoyo a las situaciones de dependencia”;…