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Public-sector outsourcing
Poutvaara, Panu - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually … innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …
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The determinants of housework time
Stratton, Leslie S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
The time household members in industrialized countries spend on housework and shopping is substantial, amounting to about half as much as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, driven in part by the gender wage differential. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and...
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Public sector outsourcing
Poutvaara, Panu; Jordahl, Henrik - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
are less suitable for outsourcing, while network services (public transportation) may be outsourced through public tenders …
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