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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321163
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321375
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316924
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282116
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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis
Henrekson, Magnus; Du Rietz, Anita - 1999
Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334740
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Pricing Strategies in E-Commerce: Bricks vs. Clicks
Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias; Sandström, Mikael - 2001
What is the impact of the increasing dominance of conventional firms in e-commerce? We use a simple model to show that retailers who only sell through Internet have lower on-line prices than retailers who also sell through conventional stores. This proposition is firmly supported by our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334939
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The Number and the Size Distribution of Firms in Sweden and Other European Countries
Johansson, Dan - 1997
This study investigates changes in the number and the size distribution of firms in Sweden in the period 1968-1993. The … firms between countries. Data indicate that Sweden has fewer small (10-99 employees/firm) and more large-sized (500 …+ employees/firm) firms than other European countries. However, we find no support for the standard claim that Sweden has fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335037
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321460
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Privatisation and renationalisation: What went wrong in Bolivia's water sector?
Hailu, Degol; Osório, Rafael Guerreiro; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009
This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293309
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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures
Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004
The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why privatization is useful as well as profitable for an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294495