1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781200403321

Autore

Castonguay Julie

Titolo

Benchmarking carrots and sticks [[electronic resource] ] : developing a model for the evaluation of work-based employment programs / / Julie Castonguay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-45359-9

9786612453595

90-485-1068-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Disciplina

301

350

Soggetti

Employee assistance programs - Evaluation - Mathematical models

Employee assistance programs - Standards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author's Ph.D Thesis from the University of Amsterdam.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Table of Content; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Benchmarking the policy-chain; 3. The three dimensions of work-based employment programs; 4. Performance indicators of work-based employment programs; 5. Summary and conclusions on social benchmarking; 6. Input Benchmark; 7. Process Benchmark; 8. Output Benchmark; 9. Impact benchmark; 10. External factors; 11. Benchmark synthesis; 12. Conclusions and recommendations; References; Appendix A Formulas and calculations; Summary in English; Nederlandse Samenvatting

Sommario/riassunto

Julie Castonguay developes a social benchmark model which can be used to assess the performance of active labour market policies in general, and work-based employment programs in specific



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818000403321

Autore

Cohen Milton A.

Titolo

The pull of politics : Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway and the left in the late 1930s / / Milton A. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-8262-7415-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Disciplina

813/.5209358

Soggetti

Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Novelists, American - 20th century - Political and social views

Politics in literature

Right and left (Political science) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway shared two significant similarities in the late 1930's. First, they wrote the most important American novels of 1939 and 1940: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, novels that enjoyed enormous critical acclaim and popular success. Second, they had recently gravitated to the Left or were already residing there when they wrote these novels, and their political commitment directly informed their fiction" --