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The paper investigates the welfare aspects of the European Union's restrictions on labour immigration, especially the restrictions on the free movement of medium- and low-skilled labour from outside the EU. The welfare implications of restrictive labour immigration are found to be considerable,...
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Privatisierung und Deregulierung für die Freien Berufe und staatlich gebundenen Freien Berufe unter ökonomischen Aspekten. Nach … begrifflichen Abgrenzungen werden zentrale Aspekte der Privatisierung und Deregulierung in der ökonomischen Theorie behandelt und …
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This study investigates social welfare and privatization depending on the government's preference for tax revenues and … equilibrium. Moreover, if the government's preference for tax revenues is sufficiently large, the privatization of the public firm … privatization between the public firm and the government. …
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case studies. Although privatization might have some role to play in improving the performance of certain functions of …, the privatization solution has proved incapable of tackling the very serious problems of environmental destruction and the …
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oligopolies, this study investigates the efficiency of privatization. The results show that (i) regardless of the government …
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sequence of moves. We argue that the distortions associated with a public enterprise and the welfare gain of privatization …
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We examine changes in market values and accounting returns for a sample of publicly traded Chinese firms around announcements of block-share transfers among government agencies (“State Bureaucrats”), market-oriented State-owned enterprises (“MOSOEs”) and private investors (“Private...
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characterize the unique pure strategy equilibrium and show that as long as the cost function is not ``too concave'', privatization … so. Further, the optimal tax/subsidy policy is critically dependent on whether there is privatization or not. …
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paper considers vouchers, standardized tests, educational loans, and privatization as related to educational corruption. The … privatization of the nation’s higher education as a fundamental process that should be legalized and formalized. It suggests further … restructuring of the higher education industry, its decentralization and privatization, and sees educational loans as a necessary …
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This article evaluates EU policies on public services – particularly public network services - from the citizens´ point of view. It is first argued that citizens´ perceptions about these services are important because they are essential for quality of life, but also because they exhibit...
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