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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?

Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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Arm's length provision of public services

Bennedsen, Morten (contributor); … - 2007

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Plunging into the sea : ideological change, institutional environments and private entrepreneurship in China

Yang, Jin; Huang, Jian; Deng, Yanhua; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018

This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after 2002, when the Party revised its constitution and officially removed ideological discrimination against private entrepreneurs. Using six waves of a nationwide survey of privately...

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Does pension privatization increase economic growth? : evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe

Altiparmakov, Nikola; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2016

Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between "carve-out" pension privatization … evidence that pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe was associated with higher economic growth. The result … particularly unlikely in countries resorting to debt-financed privatization. Furthermore, we note the lack of positive pension …

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Can regional decentralisation shift health care preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2017

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer - such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism to...

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Privatising network industries

Newbery, David M. G. - 2004

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The UK's privatisation experiment : the passage of time permits a sober assessment

Parker, David - 2004

This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...

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Voting with their money : Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2019

We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using the synthetic control method to construct appropriate counterfactuals, we show that by March 2019 the Leave vote had led to a 17% increase in the number of UK outward investment transactions in the remaining...

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Where does multinational profit go with territorial taxation? : evidence from the UK

Langenmayr, Dominika; Liu, Li - 2020

In 2009, the United Kingdom abolished the taxation of profits earned abroad and introduced a territorial tax system. Under the territorial system, firms have strong incentives to shift profits abroad. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we show that profits of UK subsidiaries in...

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Fiscal shocks and real exchange rate dynamics : some evidence for Latin America

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor); … - 2008

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