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Lifting the burden : state care of the elderly and labor supply of adult children

Løken, Katrine V.; Lundberg, Shelly; Riise Kolstad, Julie - 2014

In this paper, we use a 1998 reform in the federal funding of local home-based care for the elderly in Norway to examine the effects of formal care expansion on the labor supply decisions and mobility of middle-aged children. Our main finding is a consistent and significant negative impact of...

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Outsourcing public services : contractibility, cost, and quality

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...

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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

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 financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2009

are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was … privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … not as successful as it might have been expected and in comparison with those in other countries. -- Sweden ; efficiency …

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Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms : the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Wintermann, Ole (contributor) - 2005

structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …

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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2008

principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel (contributor); … - 2007

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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Old‐age employment and hours of work trends : empirical analysis for four European countries

Aliaj, Arjeta; Flawinne, Xavier; Jousten, Alain; … - 2016

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …

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