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

Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out employment services to private placement agencies. Our results show that … Employment Service (PES); e.g., they receive more assistance in improving their job search technology. We do not find any overall … difference in the chances of finding employment between private placement agencies and the PES, but this hides important …

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

Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818886

Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates: Some Further Results

Christiansen, Vidar; Micheletto, Luca; Blomquist, Sören - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analyzed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be a payment for...

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Price Subsidies versus Public Provision

Blomquist, Sören; Christiansen, Vidar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997

The paper discusses which redistributional policies are efficient when the identity of the high and low skill persons is private information. Our major purpose is to identify the more efficient policy when, presumably for administrative reasons, the policy option is confined to the choice...

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The Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods

Blomquist, Sören; Christiansen, Vidar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

A large share of public funds is spent on private goods (education, health care, day care, etc.). This paper integrates two different approaches to the analysis of public provision of private goods. While normative public economics has established an efficiency case for such provision, the...

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Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates

Blomquist, Sören; Christiansen, Vidar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analysed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be payment for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644581

Lessons from privatization : labour issues in developing and transitional countries

Hoeven, Rolph van der (ed.) - 1998 - 2. impr.

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Adjustment, employment & missing institutions in Africa : the experience in Eastern & Southern Africa

Van der Geest, Willem (contributor); … - 1999 - 1. publ.

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Lessons from privatization : labour issues in developing and transitional countries

Hoeven, Rolph van der (ed.); Sziraczki, Gyorgy (contributor) - 1997 - 1. publ.

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