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The European Social Fund and domestic activation policies: Europeanization mechanisms

open access: yesJournal of European Social Policy, 2011
This article analyses the effects of the European Social Fund (ESF) on domestic activation policies in the three Belgian regions: Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels. We argue that over the last decade the ESF has had a catalytic impact, first on the innovation of activation instruments, second on the governance of employment policies and third on policy ...
Verschraegen, G.   +2 more
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE AND EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND [PDF]

open access: possibleReview of General Management, 2012
The purpose of paper is to present the need of social and economic change in policy of the European Union. Subject of the paper is the European Social Fund and the industry as a source of social and economic change for the community with its fields of activity. The present paper has the following structure: a.Introduction b.Nature of change.
Sevdalina DIMITROVA, Elitsa PETROVA
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The Performance of European Socially Responsible Funds

Journal of Business Ethics, 2008
Recent years have witnessed an increasing growth in mutual funds that invest according to social criteria. As a consequence, the financial performance of these portfolios has attracted the interest of academics and practitioners. This paper investigates the performance of a sample of socially responsible mutual funds from seven European countries ...
Maria Ceu Cortez   +2 more
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European Social Fund

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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The European Social Fund and the Employment at the European Level [PDF]

open access: possibleRevista Tinerior Economisti(The Young Economists Journal), 2008
The economic and social cohesion was in the last decade one of the priority subjects of the European Agenda. In an enlarged European Union, ESF has to contribute to the growth of the employment of the internal market by facilitating the mobility and the adaptation of the labour force, determining the growth of the living standard of the European ...
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Economic and Social Cohesion and the European Social Fund

1997
Abstract 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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Title XI The European Social Fund

2019
The 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, 2009
In 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 ...
Federico, Iannacci   +3 more
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