スズキ　ケンジ   Suzuki Kenji   鈴木　賢志    所属   明治大学  国際日本学部    職種   専任教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2003/01
形態種別	大学・研究所紀要
標題	Marketization of Elderly Care in Sweden
執筆形態	その他
掲載誌名	Working Paper of European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics
巻・号・頁	137
概要	Ten years have passed since the Swedish government widely encouraged its municipalities to marketize their elderly care services. There has been a long-standing discussion on the benefit of marketization during that period, but most of the discussions were developed from the case studies of a limited number of municipalities. With lately available statistics, the present study tries to find some general rules across many different municipalities. Regarding the motives of the municipalities for marketization of elderly care, there is apparently a tendency that municipalities with more bourgeois politicians and a larger size of elderly population are likely to rely more on privately managed service. As for the effect of marketization, it is shown that the cost performance is better in those municipalities allowing the participation of private providers to certain extent than in others. Also, the cost performance seems to have an association with the political representation of municipalities, although somewhat modestly.