H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

WYLM · Where You Live Matters?

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-09-01 → 2023-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 175 572 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Местните политики в Нидерландия се анализират чрез примери с центрове за бежанци и грижи за деца с увреждания. Това помага да се разбере как децентрализацията на управлението влияе върху неравенството и живота на уязвимите групи.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Where You Live Matters?

The last fifty years decentralization has been on the rise in many developed countries. Across the entire public sector, more and more responsibilities are transferred to local governments with the idea that this will lead to higher efficiency and improved outcomes. However, with decentralization also comes the risk that variation in local governance may cause growing divides depending on where you live. Widening inequality may not only be undesired from a normative perspective, it may also undermine societal cohesion and slow down economic development. Hence, to improve our understanding on the extent to which local public governance contributes to societal inequality, this project investigates the role of local governmental policies in shaping life outcomes of vulnerable groups in society. In particular, the project looks at two distinct settings in the Netherlands where local governmental policies have the potential to significantly influence disadvantaged individuals’ life. The first subproject explores how municipalities’ decision whether to open a refugee center impacts public and political responses towards refugees. The second subproject analyzes the consequences of decentralizing youth care responsibilities from the government to the municipalities for informal caregivers of children with a disability. The broad conclusion that followed from these subprojects is that there are important regional differences in the local environment faced by refugees and informal caregivers, which are likely impacting the life outcomes of these groups.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Despite the presence of overall economic growth, during the last decades many developed countries have witnessed a rise in income inequality within their societies. The widening divide makes it crucial to understand why certain groups fall behind. The objective of the proposed project is to explore an avenue that has been largely overlooked by the literature so far: the role of local governmental policies in shaping labour market outcomes of vulnerable groups in society. To causally identify the importance of local governance, I exploit quasi-random variation induced by the Dutch institutional context and a uniquely rich administrative database covering the Dutch population. The project focuses on two socially-at-risk groups who are disadvantaged in the labour market. In the first subproject I look at refugees who are granted asylum in the Netherlands, I make use of their (quasi-) random placement across municipalities. The second subproject explores the outcomes for Dutch parents who have a child with a disability and utilizes a decentralisation reform of youth care responsibilities. The variation in local governance in both natural experiments can show whether and for whom the support policies are effective. In that sense, where you live matters as it may impact individuals’ life outcomes.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM · RotterdamКоординаторНидерландия