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Discretionary authority and prioritizing in government agencies

Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Tóth, Lukás; Tuinstra, Jan - 2015

Government agencies typically have a certain freedom to choose among different possible courses of action. This paper studies agency decision-making on priorities in a principal-agent framework with multi-tasking. The agency head (the principal) has discretion over part of the agency's budget to...

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Job-search periods for welfare applicants : evidence from a randomized experiment

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Kete, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2016

This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...

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Assessing electronic service delivery in municipalities

Budding, Tjerk; Faber, Bram; Gradus, Raymond - 2017

In the Netherlands, electronic service delivery has become an important issue in many municipalities. Using the … delivery for all Dutch municipalities, we show that there is a large variety among the municipalities in the extent to which … municipalities. Some trends can be discerned, most notably the strong relationship of e-government adoption with demographic …

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Keeping in touch with citizens online : social media usage in dutch local government

Faber, Bram; Budding, Tjerk; Gradus, Raymond - 2019

, this article does empirical work on the ways in which social media is used by all 380 Dutch municipalities. It focuses on … populated municipalities with a larger and a higher-educated population use their Twitter account significantly different from …

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Contracting out, an empirical study on motives

Wassenaar, Mattheus C.; Groot, Thomas L.; Gradus, Raymond - 2010

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … provision of their activities. Only in case of structural underperformance, municipalities consider a change of service provider …

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Dedicated doctors : public and private provision of health care with altruistic physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007

Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of...

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Welfare state and life satisfaction : evidence from public health care

Laamanen, Jani-Petri; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2007

We examine the effect of publicly provided health care on welfare by combining local level data on public health care, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a positive effect on individuals' life satisfaction in our...

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - 2007 - This version: November 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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Decomposing employment trends of disabled workers

Koning, Pierre; Vethaak, Heike - 2019

Many OECD countries are facing decreases in the employment rates of disabled workers. To uncover the driving forces of these trends, this paper estimates Age-Period- Cohort (APC) models on administrative data of Disability Insurance (DI) application cohorts for the Netherlands between 1999 and...

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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, an equilibrium approach

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2018

Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by several methods, viz., voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully funded occupational pension systems, and mandatory social security financed by pay-as-you-go. The specific mixture of the three systems we will call the pension composition....

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