Can subsidies paid directly to employers reduce residential discrimination in employment? An assessment based on serial field experiments

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110060
Author(s):  
Sylvain Chareyron ◽  
Laetitia Challe ◽  
Yannick L’Horty ◽  
Pascale Petit
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Substantial Level ◽  
New Public ◽  
Discrimination In Employment ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighbourhood

‘Emplois Francs’ is a new public policy in France that provides financial assistance to companies when they hire a jobseeker living in a disadvantaged neighbourhood. This study evaluates the effect of this policy by using three waves of correspondence tests spaced six months apart to measure discrimination in access to employment based on ethnic origin and place of residence. We find a substantial level of discrimination based on ethnic origin and a lower level of residential discrimination. We find that the programme decreases residential discrimination after six months, but we cannot conclude that the effect is still present 12 months later.

scholarly journals Editorial Introduction: field experiments and public policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
GEORGE AKERLOF ◽  
ADAM OLIVER ◽  
CASS SUNSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Editorial Introduction

scholarly journals Race and Sex Discrimination in Employment in Canada. Theories, Evidence and Policies

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish C. Jain
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Discrimination In Employment

After having examined three theoritical approaches, the author presents public policy relating to race and sex discrimination in employment and analyzes 74 cases decided by the boards of enquiry and courts.

scholarly journals “New Public Policy” As an Example of Pro-Innovation Policy – The Neo-Institutional Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Leszek Kwieciński
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Structural Description ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
New Public ◽  
Functional Part

Abstract This article presents the main elements of the creation of the pro-innovation policy as a new public policy. For understanding this kind of policy we should analyse the structural and functional aspects this public policy. The main concept of structural description pro-innovation policy is a National Innovation System. NIS is being analysed as a sub-functional part of the political system as a whole. This sub-functional political system should also have social and institutional connections. Furthermore, pro-innovation activity is connected with the market, state, and social aspects. The pro-innovation policy and system must be based on social endogenous resources, needs, and possibilities. These are the basic factors for legitimisation and participation, which are crucial elements for the effective implementation of the pro-innovation policy.

Understanding the Field of Public Policy in the Context of Public Administration Evolution

2022 ◽  
pp. 22-44
Author(s):  
Feras Ali Qawasmeh
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Review Study ◽  
New Public Governance

Public policy is classified as a major field in public administration. Therefore, to understand the context of public policy as a field, it is essential to explore its root developments in public administration from epistemological and chronological perspectives. This chapter is a review study referring to main scholarly works including books, academic articles, and studies. The chapter first helps researchers and students in comprehending the evolution of public administration in its four main stages including classical public administration, new public administration, new public management, and new public governance. Second, the chapter presents a general overview of the evolution of the public policy field with particular attention paid to the concepts of Harold Lasswell who is seen as the father of public policy. The chapter then discusses different definitions of public policy. Various classifications of public policy are also investigated. The chapter ends with a critical discussion of the stages model (heuristics).

Workshop 2 (synthesis): water pollution abatement within the industrial sector

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 115-117
Author(s):  
S. Matsui ◽  
J. Oatridge ◽  
A. Blomqvist
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Pollution Abatement ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
New Public ◽  
Cleaner Technologies ◽  
Policy Measures

This workshop aimed at demonstrating and discussing how effective abatement of water pollution can be achieved through introducing cleaner technologies, recycling and reuse of water, and implementing new public policy measures.

Field experiments and public policy: festina lente

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
GLENN W. HARRISON
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Current State ◽  
To Receive

AbstractThe current state of the art in field experiments does not give me any confidence that we should be assuming that we have anything worth scaling, assuming we really care about the expected welfare of those about to receive the instant intervention. At the very least, we should be honest and explicit about the need for strong priors about the welfare effects of changes in averages of observables to warrant scaling. What we need is a healthy dose of theory and the implied econometrics.

Medical Ethics and New Public Management in Sweden

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
SVEN OVE HANSSON
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
New Public ◽  
Swedish Medical ◽  
Return Visits ◽  
Professional Judgments

Abstract:In order to shorten queues to healthcare, the Swedish government has introduced a yearly “queue billion” that is paid out to the county councils in proportion to how successful they are in reducing queues. However, only the queues for first visits are covered. Evidence has accumulated that queues for return visits have become longer. This affects the chronically and severely ill. Swedish physicians, and the Swedish Medical Association, have strongly criticized the queue billion and have claimed that it conflicts with medical ethics. Instead they demand that their professional judgments on priority setting and medical urgency be respected. This discussion provides an interesting illustration of some of the limitations of new public management and also more generally of the complicated relationships between medical ethics and public policy.

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