A Study of the use of market mechanisms for the delivery of publicly funded employment services in Alberta
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis employs a multiple case study design to examine the challenges, benefits, and limitations associated with the contracting and procurement frameworks used by three Alberta ministries for the purchase of employment services, including services for people with disabilities. Each framework reflects a market emphasis to varying degrees, and one is seemingly at odds with a shared governance legacy and transformational vision. A literature review inventories a host of issues related to new public management era contracting and the more recent trend toward collaborative or horizontal governance. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore the impact of market mechanisms on inter-organizational dynamics and organizational mandate and autonomy, the use of performance contracting for services for disabled populations, and a governance framework that serves as a backdrop for contracting reforms. It is suggested that the market model begins to strain where services are designed for people with more complex needs and where the overarching goals are intended to bring about societal transformation. The province may be reaching the limits of where a market-inspired model can be expected to produce meaningful results. iv Table of
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".