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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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The words that keep people apart : official language, accountability and fiscal capacity
Baronchelli, Adelaide; Foresta, Alessandra; Ricciuti, … - 2020
This paper empirically evaluates the impact of accountability on fiscal capacity. It adopts an instrumental variable … reliable and is negatively correlated with our measure of accountability in line with the hypothesis. The results in the second …
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Fact-checking politicians
Mattozzi, Andrea; Nocito, Samuel; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2022
We investigate the reaction of Italian Members of Parliament to a rigorous fact-checking of their public statements. Our research design relies on a novel randomized field experiment in collaboration with the leading Italian fact-checking company. Our results show that politicians are responsive...
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"You need to have this information!": using videos to increase demand for accountability on public revenue management
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Edjekumhene, Ishmael; … - 2023
How can citizens be motivated to demand accountability in the management of public revenues? We carry out a video … a politician and civil society leader on attitudes and demand for accountability in the management of petroleum revenues … the way revenues are handled and spent, and the intention to demand more accountability. The encouragement messages have …
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Tax strategy disclosure : a greenwashing mandate?
Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Casi-Eberhard, Elisa; Seregni, Carol - 2022 - This version: April 2022
Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...
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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
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Why is the public sector more labor-intensive? : a distortionary tax argument
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
A relatively high labor-intensity in government-run entities need not imply slack in their organization. Rather, it is a rational reaction to various forms of wage tax advantage that the public sector has over private firms. Even though an unequal tax treatment of public and private sectors...
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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation
Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2015
Recent research has highlighted social image and identity concerns as factors that influence economic decisions. Given that an individual’s choice of employment may be important for their social image, we consider a model of worker sorting into the mission-oriented or private sector with...
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Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector
Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, Jouko - 2022
We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments are available. We find that private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe...
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Are donors afraid of charities' core costs? : scale economies in non-profit provision and charity selection
Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - 2014
We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...
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