ABSTRACT

This article aims to analyse the position of the public provider (i.e. share of recipients) of home-care services in Swedish municipalities with marketization: a system of choice. Following the literature, an assumption is that the public provider has difficulties in surviving the competition with private home-care providers. In addition, the relevancy of this assumption could differ between different municipal settings. To test this assumption, we use statistical analysis. The main result is that the public provider is a ‘strong player’ in most municipalities experiencing marketization. However, there exists a variation in this respect – the position varies between municipalities.

摘要

本文旨在分析市场化瑞典城市中家庭护理服务的公共提供者（即接受者的份额）的地位：一种选择系统。根据文献，假设公共提供者难以在与私人家庭护理提供者的竞争中生存。此外，这一假设的相关性在不同的市政环境之间可能有所不同。为了检验这个假设，我们使用统计分析。主要结果是，在大多数经历市场化的城市中，公共提供者是“强大的参与者”。然而，在这方面存在差异——不同城市的立场不同。