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Local Policies and the European Social Fund

2019
In 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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The Regulation of European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (‘EuSEFs’)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Increasingly, 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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Controlling the Purse: How the European Parliament Shaped Social Policy Through the European Social Fund

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 European Social Fund: changing approaches to VET

European Journal of Education, 2011
Since 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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European pension funds and socially responsible investment

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2011
The 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 European Social Entrepreneurship Fund Regulation

2019
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ZETZSCHE, Dirk Andreas, Preiner,
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Employment in Bulgaria and the role of the European Social Fund [PDF]

Izvestyia, 2011
In the article there are dis cussed the main trends in the employment of the active population of the country for the past 10 years, the emphasis being on the last 3 years. As a result of the economic crisis there is broken the eight - year - long trend of an increase in employment and de crease in unemployment in Bulgaria.
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Social Responsibility in European Mutual Fund Performance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Marta Vidal, Javier Vidal-García
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European Social Fund

2022
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The European Social Fund

Common Market Law Review, 1977
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