a Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fairfax, Virginia 22033, USA, b Center for Quality of Care Research, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands, c School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, d Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA, e Heal...

The abstract contributes to the literature by identifying a new form of voluntarism, employer-led voluntarism Employer Forums in United Kingdom. carry out private voluntary regulation raise labour and social standards within their member firms through introducing codes conducts implementing norms assessments, benchmarking, certification. article compares this with traditional approach where uni...

OBJECTIVES We examined the association between social expenditures of the local government and the mortality level in Korea, 2004 to 2010. METHODS We used social expenditure data of 230 local governments during 2004 to 2010 from the Social Expenditure Database prepared by the Korean Institute for Health and Social Affairs. Fixed effect panel data regression analysis was adopted to look for as...

This paper contributes to the literature examining interplay of education, social integration, and mental health. Based on network theories, we argue that integration plays a role in explaining link between education Using data from German Panel Study Labour Market Social Security (PASS) (observation period: 2006/2007–2018), our sample comprises 16,870 individuals. We use panel regression model...

Though a vast amount of empirical work stresses the beneficial effects of social capital, the recent literature has explicitly recognized the importance of distinguishing different types of social capital. Particularly, a distinction has been made between homogeneous (or bonding) and heterogeneous (or bridging) networks under the argument that the latter are more likely to generate positive ext...