Adi Arad

The objectives of the study were to examine the impact of the Law and Government Resolution on the scope of prostitution in Israel, on its consumption, and on individuals in prostitution.

The Ministry of Finance has commissioned the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute to conduct a study designed to: 1. Identify the activity areas of local authorities to be measured using performance indicators 2. Suggest performance indicators for local authorities that can adequately express the quantity and quality of their performance on a variety of activity areas 3. Demonstrate the practical utility of the performance indicators by characterizing the leading local authorities. 4. To compare between the local authority and other authorities in its reference group, thus providing a more accurate estimate of its relative performance.

The objectives of the study are: 1. Assess the workforce participation rate of sixty plus-year-olds 2. Evaluate the degree to which their desire to work after retirement age is indeed met, that is, assess the degree to which unemployed retirees would like to work, as well as the degree to which employed individuals in retirement age would like to stop working. 3. Determine the main factors affecting the likelihood of working after retirement age, among other things with reference to the COVID-19 crisis.

The overarching objective of this study was to create, for the first time in Israel, an individual-level, practical wellbeing index comprising a relatively short list of aspects, that can be used to assess the impact of intervention programs on individual wellbeing. The objectives of the research stage presented in this report are: (1) To compile a shortlist of aspects to be included in the wellbeing index; and (2) To determine the relative weight of each aspect.

The objectives of the review was to learn about the pricing and budgeting of welfare services and gain insights into the process of procuring welfare services in OECD countries. This review focuses in particular on service tenders that include components based on payment by performance and price-based competition.