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Provision of public services by Slovak local governments - Case study social protection – old age: A supply demand mismatch?

Tomáš Černěnko, Klaudia Glittová
Rok vydání: 2021

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9896-2021-50
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Abstrakt

The aim of the paper is to describe the supply of public services in the field of social protection - old age (represented by expenditures in group 10, class 2 of COFOG classification) in relation to the demand for these services represented by the population in the age group 62+ related to the size and region of the local government unit. The analysis of supply and demand takes place at the level of individual local governments and the results are then presented in relation to the size of the municipality and the region. Two approaches were used for the analysis. The first focuses on the description of the current situation through the categorization of local governments according to the approach to the provision of services, and the second consists in regression analysis. The results of the regression analysis suggest that the size of the municipality and the region do not play as important a role in terms of access to the provision of the examined services as indicated by the first, descriptive analysis. To find a "pattern" for local authorities to decide on access to services for the elderly, further research will be needed that takes into account several socio-economic indicators.

Klíčová slova

social protection - old age, local government, COFOG, public services

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