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When workers get to choose: Employment and wage responses to demand shocks in labour‐managed and conventional firms

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In conventional firms (CFs), workers are unlikely to accept pay and hour reductions in order to secure their jobs, in particular because of information asymmetry. A specific type of firm is not subject to this information asymmetry problem because workers make decisions and share profits: worker cooperatives.
Nathalie Magne, Virginie Pérotin
wiley   +1 more source

Licence Loss: Revocations of Residential Care Licences in Four Nordic Countries

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With placement in residential care, society assumes overall responsibility for a child's daily care, well‐being and development. How public authorities respond to poor care quality is of crucial importance. To guarantee quality care and minimise risks, welfare states increasingly develop different mechanisms and systems to supervise out‐of ...
David Pålsson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Workers' Perceptions of Stakeholder Contributions to Regional Variation in the Numbers of ‘Care Orders at Home’ Being Recorded

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study builds on and extends the limited literature pertaining to the increasingly common care arrangement for children in England—the ‘Care Order at home’ [COAH]. Employing online focus groups and individual interviews, the study explores with 16 practising social workers their experience of COAH in both Northwest England and Greater ...
Ciarán Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

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