... is increasingly important as many Western European countries have decentralised swathes of social policies from the national to the local level in recent decades. Decentralisation Welfare attitudes Local welfare Municipal conditions Social policy Existing studies argue that welfare attitudes...

... Group Publishing Limited 2013 Disadvantaged groups Unemployment Welfare Germany Activation Decentralisation Effect evaluation Implementation Welfare recipients Following the advice of the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD...

.... In the early 1970s local “Occupational Medicine Services” were voluntarily established in many regions. The entire health care system was decentralised in 1978, giving regions exclusive authority to implement occupational safety and health standards within Local Health Units (USLs). The concrete results...