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"This essay intends to explore three innovative ways to foster job creation in services: First, the switch from product markets to utility markets would induce more and new types of user services. Such a switch would not only be more employment friendly but also foster a sustainable economic development compatible with ecological principles. The reorientation from products to utilities provides strong arguments for an emphasis on the framework conditions of services, for instance for lowering VAT in favour of labour intensive services, for forward regulation through (usually service enhancing) high quality standards, for deregulating market entry barriers, and for subsidising networks instead of individual products or services. Second, the thesis of cost disease has to be reconsidered in view of productivity enhancing possibilities by new technologies, and in view of innovative possibilities in managing specific income risks related to modern services. Service-product chains are the main ingredient for increasing productivity in services which is demonstrated in the field of art. Various approaches of social insurance in this field offer also inspiring ideas for risk management beyond the traditional welfare state. The most important policy conclusion related to this experience is the inclusion of consumers into the financing of social insurance. Third, the switch from transfers to persons with low earnings capacities to the support of peoples self-reliance through their own work could also induce increasing demand for already existing or new types of job services, and contribute especially to gender equality in the labour market. The central policy conclusion is the recommendation to turn social benefit entitlements (transfers) into vouchers for buying or co-financing job services." (author's abstract)

The goal of this paper is to create a comprehensive picture of the service process structure of a typical Hungarian Government Window, which functions as a one-stop shop service centre for administrative public services. The research is focusing on process management details regarding service quality, and excellence in public services. Performance indicators are identified through a literature review based on the similarities and differences of private and public services. We are using collected data from a Government Window to visualize front office operations with Business Process Modelling and we analyse the time-related data by using performance metrics identified in service quality literature. Our research provides useful insights into the Hungarian public service centre operations that can be useful as a basis of comparison with other countries' similar service systems. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.