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The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...
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Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award …
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organisational and contractual solutions are best suited. Optimum rig procurement will depend in part on whether the oil companies … and capacity to manage and follow up procurement …
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We analyse procurement auctions in which sellers are distinguished on the basis of the ratios of quality per unit of …
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Discriminatory programs that favor local and small firms in government procurement are common in many countries. This … paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries … where learning-by-doing makes incumbent firms more efficient over time. We consider a sequential procurement design problem …
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investigate the impact this change in procurement contracts has on efficiency. Focusing on coal mines, we find that those selling …
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most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
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I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...
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This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2003 In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...
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We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records from 30 countries, including over 90 countries of...
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