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Where Should the Elderly Live and Who Should Pay for their Care? A Study in Demographics and Geographical Economics
Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2007
There is a rich literature analyzing the problems that will arise as the share of elderly and retired in the population increases in the near future. However, the locational decisions among the elderly as well as their implications in terms of taxes/transfers and of allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321598
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Strategic Competition in Swedish Local Spending on Childcare, Schooling and Care for the Elderly
Edmark, Karin - 2007
This study tests for strategic competition in public spending on childcare and primary education, and care for the elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of the public sector implies that Swedish data is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321619
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Moving in and out of public geriatric care in Sweden
Hallberg, Daniel; Lagergren, Mårten - 2007
In this paper we present empirical results concerning the interplay between the development of dependency in activities for daily living (ADL),the informal support from a partner, and the mode of public old age care (OAC) services among the very old (75+). We also study excess-mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321629
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Strategic competition in Swedish local spaneding on childcare, schooling and care for the elderly
Edmark, Karin - 2007
This study tests for strategic competition in public spending on childcare and primary education, and care for the elderly, using panel data on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree of decentralization in the organization of the public sector implies that Swedish data is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317929
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Hotels Quality Programs
Minazzi, Roberta - 2009
The main aim of this paper is to investigate the most important aspects and criticism of quality certification in the Italian hospitality industry. During the past few years ISO 9000 has become more popular within organizations but, on the other hand, doubts have raised about the effectiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204137
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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures
Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004
The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294495
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Bank Ownership and Performance
Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo; Yañez, Mónica - 2004
This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327143
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Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - 2004
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks located in developing countries have fiscal costs because they are characterized by lower returns than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327147
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Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism: Reflections inspired by WTO accession
Woo, Wing Thye - 2001
The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China''s particular economic circumstances, or have been the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318608
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Feldstein's rhetoric of private retirement accounts
Avsar, Rojhat B. - 2008
. Martin Feldstein's pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his … rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both the political and the economic rhetoric of Social Security privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288065