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Com afecta la crisi al sistema de Serveis Socials
2012
The economic crisis is affecting people and societies in a different way depending on their initial situation. As far as Social Services are concerned in the Valencian Community, an analysis needs to be made of this system as it was when the crisis first emerged. Its structure is deficient and involves overlaps, in which schemes have been replaced with individual assistance, payment of subsidies takes too long and in which subjective rights, stemming from the Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependency Law and the Law on Citizens' Guaranteed Income, are poorly applied. The values crisis precedes the economic and financial crisis, which is why any possibilities of facing up to these have to se…
Els serveis socials municipals en risc de desaparició. L'avantprojecte de Llei de racionalització i sostenibilitat de l'Administració local
2013
This bill endangers the municipal social services system because it deeply modifies the conception thereof (leaning social services towards charity), the distribution of powers (taking competences to the town and city councils) and the public responsibility (encouraging private management and the commercial exploitation thereof). During the last thirty years, the Social Services system had been consolidated throughout Spain, being the proximity to the citizenry its most fundamental value. Such proximity has been achieved thanks to the benefits provided by the town and city councils, which have become the closer public bodies to citizens and their needs with great capacity to understand and …
Expanding Well-Being by Participating in Grassroots Innovations: Using the Capability Approach to Explore the Interest of Alternative Food Networks f…
2022
Abstract Grassroots social innovations are citizen-led initiatives that develop bottom-up solutions to societal challenges. Alternative food networks (AFNs) are innovations which propose alternative schemes for distribution and consumption of food—such as community-based agriculture or food cooperatives—which can improve the well-being of participants. Its potential for social work and social services has been recognised, but remains underexplored. This paper proposes a theoretical framework based on the capability approach in order to explore the impacts, drivers and factors at play in the expansion of well-being in participants in AFNs. This framework is applied to address seven cases of …
Social Work and Welfare System in Italy: changes, critical issues, resiliencies
2019
The emergence and growth of the professional figure of the social worker in Italy dates back to the 20th century, when the concept of social assistance witnessed a more concrete legislative application, through the affirmation of the Social State, the type of State that aims to guarantee not only equality and freedom to its citizens, but also, what is known as, “social well-being”: “the profession of social worker, being the progeny of industrial society, assumes the form of the functional specialization of modern social-welfare activity” (Gui 2004: 3). Since the early years of the last century, the social worker (or “social assistant” as it has been the term given in Italy to the social wo…
Genesis of professionalization of Polish social services
2018
The article continues the discussion about the identity and history of the Polish social services. In particular, it addresses the genesis and beginnings of the formation of the educational system of social workers. The memory about the beginnings is an indispensable element of thinking about the future in the present. Coming up with solutions for the future without respect for the achievements of the past creates a risk of committing errors of the past generations. It also entails the risk of neglecting the development of proven solutions which are well-grounded in Polish social, cultural and mental conditions. We should remember that history is the best teacher for contemporary activists …
Neighbourhoods and the formation of towns : the role of information externalities
1997
The objective of this paper is to explain the role of information and of the progress made in information treatment and its transmission in the way that urban space evolves, and particularly its center-periphery structure. Information plays a more and more important role in production and innovation processes. Despite the very rapid progress in long distance information exchange possibilities, men and economic activities still demand proximity, in the form of direct, face-to-face contact. Today, the need for information exchange is one of the main sources of production agglomeration. What kind of information does it concern ? What sort of economic activities require proximity and how is tha…
Town, industry and city
1995
Une première partie regroupera quelques réflexions conceptuelles et méthodologiques sur les économies d'agglomération et le phénomène d'agglomération. On y trouvera des précisions sur les sources, la nature et le classement des économies d'agglomération et des forces qui peuvent les contrarier, ainsi que sur la dynamique propre du phénomène d'agglomération. Dans une deuxième partie, nous examinerons plus précisément l'intérêt et les limites de l'assimilation entre l'agglomération de la production et la ville, en analysant comment la dimension productive est liée aux autres dimensions de la ville, notamment la dimension sociale. Nous chercherons en particulier quelles représentations de la v…
The individual determinants unemployment duration
1997
Si, aujourd'hui, les études sur les comportements des demandeurs d'emploi sur le marché du travail sont de plus en plus importantes, la modélisation de ces comportements comporte encore un bon nombre d'interrogations. Parmi celles-ci figure le problème du biais d'échantillonnage présent dans laplupart des données françaises sur les durées de chômage. Dans un précédent travail, nous avons montré l'importance et les conséquences de l'oubli du biais d'échantillonnage sur les probabilités conditionnelles de sortie du chômage. Dans le travail présenté ici et réalisé à partir de l'enquête « suivides chômeurs », notre intérêt porte sur les conséquences de l'oubli de ce biais sur les déterminants i…
Détermination du taux de salaire réel et analyse néoclassique
1997
L'ambition des Néoclassiques est d'établir une loi scientifique de la répartition qu’ils expliquent essentiellement de deux façons. La première explication est fondée sur la productivité marginale des facteurs déterminée à la production. La seconde est fondée sur l'échange qui détermine la rémunérationdes facteurs ou leur « prix » sur le marché. Or, ces deux déterminations ne sont pas compatibles. La théorie marginaliste écarte d'emblée une grande partie de la réalité économique représentée par les rendements croissants et constants. Elle limite encore son champ en supposant que sur une quantité fixe d’un facteur on peut employer n’importe quelle quantité de facteur variable, hypothèse néce…
La non stationnarité dans les séries saisonnières. Application au tourisme tunisien
1998
The purpose of the paper is to specify the nature of the seasonal behaviors of tourist stay demand in Tunisia by using recent tools of monthly time series analysis. The available series (tourist expenditures, prices, guest nights, reception capacities,...) are analyzed with the classical theory of demand and the theory of supply induced demand. Empirical results show that these series are generated by non stationary processes which seasonality is stochastic and deterministic. The extent of the maximum likelihood method proposed by Lee (1992) for monthly data emphasizes unit roots and cointegration relationships at some seasonal frequencies. Error correction models are derived for endogenous…