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Public-Private Partnerships versus Traditional Procurement: An Experimental Investigation

Hoppe, Eva I.; Kusterer, David J.; Schmitz, Patrick W. - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011

A government agency wants an infrastructure-based public service to be provided. Our experimental study compares two different modes of provision. In a public-private partnership, the two tasks of building the infrastructure and operating it are delegated to one private contractor (a...

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Public and Private Welfare Activity in the UnitedKingdom, 1979 to 1999

Smithies, Rachel - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and privatesector welfare provision in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. Fivesectors – education, health, personal social services, housing, and incomemaintenance and social security – are examined over three time...

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Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Müller, Hannes - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

We re-examine the labor donation theory of not-for-profits and show that these organizations may exist notnecessarily because motivated workers prefer to work in them, or that they dominate for-profits in terms ofwelfare, but because the excess supply of motivated workers makes the non-profit...

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Is Privatization Enough? Finding Performance Breaks for UK Power Plants

Triebs, Thomas P.; Pollitt, Michael G. - Judge Business School <Cambridge> - 2010

The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce … than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …

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STRUCTURAL REFORM AND FIRM PROFITABILITYIN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

CUERVO-CAZURRA, Alvaro; DAU, Luis Alfonso - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2008

We extend agency theory to propose that structural reform positively impacts firm profitability indeveloping countries because the improvements in external monitoring that accompany structuralreform decrease the agency costs faced by firms. However, we also argue that not all firmsbenefit...

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The Financial and Operating Performance ofPrivatized Firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

firms. First,accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operatingperformance of … different to private counterparts. Overallresults, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was not as successful as it …

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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods : The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 19862003

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. Thispaper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED)from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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The practice of social entrepreneurship: Theory and the Swedish experience

Stryjan, Yohanan - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2005

The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as animportant policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation...

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Vergabeverfahren bei öffentlich (mit)finanzierten sozialen Dienstleistungen

Bernitt, Ralf - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2005

In Fachkreisen ist umstritten, ob die Vergabe sozialer Dienstleistungen demVergaberecht unterliegt. Diskutiert wird dieses Thema oft mit dem Ziel, zuklären, ob und in welchem Umfang Vergaberegelungen einschlägig sind. Dabeispielt eine Rolle, welche Leistungen öffentlich ausgeschrieben...

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