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1999
Abstract In Article 117 of the EEC Treaty, Member States agreed upon the need to promote improved working conditions and an improved standard of living for workers. They believed that such improvements would ensue not only from the functioning of the common market but also from the procedures provided for in the Treaty.
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Abstract In Article 117 of the EEC Treaty, Member States agreed upon the need to promote improved working conditions and an improved standard of living for workers. They believed that such improvements would ensue not only from the functioning of the common market but also from the procedures provided for in the Treaty.
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Title XI The European Social Fund
2019The European Social Fund (ESF) provides financial support to MS for action that increases the employability of existing and potential workers. It is now one of the Structural Funds and is, apart from the rules on eligibility of actions, governed by provisions that are common to those Funds.
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Evaluating Monitoring Systems in the European Social Fund Context
Evaluation Review, 2009In contrast to the prevailing image of monitoring systems as technical systems, it is proposed that they should rather be conceived of as social endeavors at exchanging information. Drawing on the monitoring and evaluation framework of Cornford, Doukidis, and Forster, the concept of information agreement is suggested as a way of assessing the quality ...
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European pension funds and socially responsible investment
Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2011The concept of socially responsible investment (SRI), which states that pension funds should not only get a good return on their investment but also use their influence over companies to increase social and economic welfare, has gained ground in the past decade.
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The Regulation of European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (‘EuSEFs’)
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020Increasingly, investors also pursue social goals and are not only seeking financial returns. For that reason, a social investment market is emerging in the EU, comprising, in part of, of investment funds targeting social undertakings. Such investment funds provide funding to social undertakings that act as drivers of social change by offering ...
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The European Social Fund: changing approaches to VET
European Journal of Education, 2011Since its creation in 1958, the European Social Fund (ESF) has played a major role in supporting the development of vocational training in the Member States. However, compared to other, more recently launched, EU programmes and initiatives in the area of education and training, the ESF has not made a significant contribution to the debate about ...
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The Performance of European Socially Responsible Fixed-Income Funds
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016Evidence to date on the performance of Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) has almost exclusively been conducted within equity markets. We provide new evidence on the potential of SRI for other asset classes, by assessing the performance of SRI fixed-income funds.
Paulo Leite, Maria C. Cortez
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Local Policies and the European Social Fund
2019In the context of an ‘activation turn’ in many European welfare states, the local level gained increasing relevance in the last decades and brought local social policies and national employment policies more closely together. At the same time, at the European level the European Social Fund (ESF) made a career from an unconditional simple financing ...
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2021
The EP’s budgetary power has been shown to have played an important role in the EP’s institutional evolution prior to 1979. MEPs swiftly learned to use their power over the Community budget not only to influence expenditure, but also to enhance the EP’s role in Community legislation.
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The EP’s budgetary power has been shown to have played an important role in the EP’s institutional evolution prior to 1979. MEPs swiftly learned to use their power over the Community budget not only to influence expenditure, but also to enhance the EP’s role in Community legislation.
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Economic and Social Cohesion and the European Social Fund
1997Abstract Of .all the structural funds which the institution now known as the European Union (EU) has organized to carry out policies aimed at modernizing, improving, and rationalizing productive structures, infrastructures, and services in the Community countries, the European Social Fund (ESF) is the only one whose creation has a ...
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