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Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from a Government Agency
Burgess, Simon M. - 2012
little impact of the scheme on quality measures, which we interpret as due to the differential measurement technology. We …
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Outsourcing Public Services : Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
Andersson, Fredrik - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868004
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Mobile Applications Aiming to Facilitate Immigrants' Societal Integration and Overall Level of Integration, Health and Mental Health : Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance Outcomes...
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer), good overall health (EQ-VAS) and mental health (CESD-20). It is estimated … integration, health/mental health status. For instance, translation and voice assistant applications are associated with a 4 …% increase in integration and a 0.8% increase in good overall health. Moreover, m-Integration applications aided by artificial …
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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952620
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Understanding Access Barriers to Public Services : Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention
Koppensteiner, Martin - 2019
We study the effect of reducing barriers to accessing non-police services on the demand for police services in cases of police-reported domestic violence. Variation comes from a large randomized controlled trial designed to assist victims in accessing non-police services and we link information...
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Job Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation
Kaiser, Lutz - 2014
Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago to German public employees within the frame of...
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016203
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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Aaberge, Rolf - 2010
, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease …
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Preferences for Childcare Policies : Theory and Evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023
revise their technology-enhanced teaching competencies (-0.14 standard deviations) and their beliefs about ICT in education …We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education …
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