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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes : An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Koning, Pierre - 2013

This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...

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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy : The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System

Strupler, Mirjam - 2016

In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm's training participation, training intensity, and training...

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Research Funding and Regional Economies

Goldschlag, Nathan - 2016

Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...

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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data

Leigh, Andrew - 2010

In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the...

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Building Political Collusion : Evidence from Procurement Auctions

Coviello, Decio - 2010

We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between 2000 and 2005. Identification is achieved...

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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita - 2011

corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Algan, Yann - 2011

This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...

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