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Effects of work requirements on welfare migration
Edmark, Karin - 2007
This study tests for a migration response to the implementation of stricter rules for welfare benefit receipt, in the form of mandatory participation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in Stockholm town districts. The hypothesis is that welfare benefit prone individuals will choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317938
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Institutions promoting budgetary discipline: evidence from Swedish municipalities
Dietrichson, Jens; Ellegård, Lina Maria - 2012
budget institutions and conflicts of interest within the Swedish municipalities. Our estimations suggest that institutions …. The fiscal surplus is higher in municipalities that have centralized their budget process to some degree, and where local … differ between municipalities with different degrees of conflicts of interests, calling for further research to understand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208570
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Volunteering and the State
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294897
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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships: The role of political involvement
Gawel, Erik - 2011
The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306845
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Transparency of human resource policy
Mellander, Erik - 2014
The scope of public human resource policy is outlined. Motivation for the need of transparency in this policy is provided in terms of informational asymmetries, human capital externalities, and long planning horizons. Transparency is defined both along a time dimension - ex ante and ex post -...
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Are transparency and accountability enough? Open corruption and why it exists
Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay; Zimmermann, Laura - 2018
The global movement against corruption has long assumed its demise lay in transparency and accountability. We test this assumption by measuring whether highly accountable Indian village council presidents favor their own households while making observable allocations of public works jobs. We...
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What do poor women want? Public employment or cash transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...
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Endogenous social norms – implications for optimal welfare state programs
Dackehag, Margareta - 2009
This paper investigates the implications of an endogenous social work norm for the optimal welfare state program. Assuming that individual productivity is observable, the analysis finds that restrictions on program participation, implying a larger benefit to a smaller group of recipients, may be...
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Does ccoperation improve implementation? Central-local government relations in active labour market policy in Sweden
Lundin, Martin - 2005
Theory suggests that relations between authorities affect implementation. This article studies the link between central and local government agencies in the Swedish labour market sector. The analysis is based on new quantitative data. The results indicate that central and local government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317915
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The Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Related Mortality in Northern Italy
Coker, Eric; Cavalli, Laura; Fabrizi, Enrico; … - 2020
.5) and excess deaths in the first quarter of 2020 in municipalities of Northern Italy. The study accounts for potentially … mortality. Our epidemiological analysis uses geographical information (e.g., municipalities) and negative binomial regression to …
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