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The priorities were chosen taking into account the main goal of MPATH project which is creating a mentoring model to help low skilled and long term unemployed workers to enter in the labour market and maintaining theirs job place. Before proceeding with the review, it is worth clarifying how mentoring has been defined. Tolan et al’s (2008) definition, which described mentoring as having the following four characteristics: interaction between two individuals over an extended period of time; inequality of experience, knowledge, or power between the mentor and mentee (recipient); the mentee is in a position to benefit from the knowledge, skill, ability, or experience of the mentor and the absence of the role inequality that typifies other helping relationships. Or in other words a mutually valued relationship.

The HEATHDOX Project investigates the current political determinants and policy consequences of post-1989 European health reforms. The end of the cold war was a turning point for many European health systems, with many post-socialist transition countries privatizing their state-run health systems, and many West and Southern European health systems experimenting with new public management and other market-oriented health reforms. The aim of the project is to document the policy changes that have taken place over the course of the 1990s and through the first decade and a half of the 21st century, and to evaluate the consequences of these reforms for health care provision, especially how these changes in the public-private mix in health affect individual attitudes towards the health system. HEALTHDOX comprises seven country teams in six countries (Estonia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden) and has established a cooperative network comprised of researchers from all 28 European Union nations, as well as selected neighboring and accession candidate countries. Each researcher (some of whom are actually stakeholders in their health system) is preparing a data table that lists all reforms undertaken in their country, and codes the provisions of these policy changes. In addition, they are in the process of preparing narrative chapters that describe the politics of reform and their consequences. These chapters will be published as a reference work (Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook); the data set will be made open access within a year after its completion. This combination of qualitative and quantitative data comprises the basis for the macro-, micro-, and multi-level analyses that we use to tackle the fundamental problem of controlling for endogeneity in analyzing welfare state attitudes. In brief, endogeneity refers to the chicken-and-egg problem of welfare state research: do we have generous welfare states in some countries because the public prefers...