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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden

Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012

Agency in Sweden during 2008 to 2010, in which over 4,000 participants were randomly offered private and public …

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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - 2012

In many countries welfare services that traditionally have been provided by the public sector are being contracted out to private providers. But are private contractors better at providing these services? We use a randomized experiment to empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out...

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Uncertain demand, consumer loss aversion, and flat-rate tariffs

Herweg, Fabian; Mierendorff, Konrad - 2011

We consider a model of firm pricing and consumer choice, where consumers are loss averse and uncertain about their future demand. Possibly, consumers in our model prefer a flat rate to a measured tariff, even though this choice does not minimize their expected billing amount - a behavior in line...

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Micro foundations of price-setting behaviour: Evidence from Canadian firms

De Munnik, Daniel; Xu, Kuan - 2007

inflation low and stable. The authors use the Bank of Canada's 200203 price-setting survey data to investigate Canadian firms …' price-setting behaviour; they also analyze the micro foundations for the firms' pricing behaviour using count data and …-dependent price-setters, operate in the trade sector, or have large variable costs or more direct competitors. There are various …

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Markups in Canada: Have they changed and why?

Leung, Danny - 2008

Many empirical studies have examined the cyclical nature of the markup ratio. Until recently, few have attempted to ascertain the changes in the markup over a longer time horizon. These changes are of no less interest in view of the posited effects of increasing import competition and lower...

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Income differences and prices of tradables

Simonovska, Ina - 2010

This paper presents novel evidence of price discrimination, using prices of identical goods in 28 countries. I explain … variable mark-ups account for 80% of the positive price-income relationship across 123 countries. …

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The effects of a refinery on property values: The case of Sweden

Winstrand, Jakob - 2009

coast, on house values in the surrounding area. To carry out the analysis a spatial hedonic house price model was applied to … price elasticity with respect to distance in the direction the prevailing wind blows is 0.071 and 0.162 in the opposite …

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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform

Anell, Anders; Dackehag, Margareta; Dietrichson, Jens; … - 2022

Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. When care providers are paid prospectively, e.g., by a fixed sum per patient, existing inequalities may be sustained by the incentives to undertreat relatively unhealthy patients. To counter this, prospective...

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Time tracking in home care: Perceptions and reality

Jordahl, Henrik; Blix, Mårten; Moberg, Linda; Persson, … - 2023

We examine the implementation of digital time tracking in home care services in Swedish municipalities. Our study combines original survey data with external measures of quality and costs, allowing us to examine both the perceived and estimated effects of time tracking. According to the...

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Should the government sell you goods? Evidence from the milk market in Mexico

Jiménez Hernández, Diego; Seira, Enrique - 2023

stores" in Mexico using a proprietary panel of household food purchases. The rollout lowered the price per liter of privately …

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