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Did new public management matter? : an empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size

Alonso, José M.; Clifton, Judith; Díaz Fuentes, Daniel - In: Public management review 17 (2015) 5, pp. 643-660

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The economic approach to political borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2022

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

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Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development

Somin, Ilya - 2019

We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...

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Evolution of fiscal decentralisation in OECD countries : a club convergence analysis

Delgado, Francisco J.; Presno, María José - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 25 (2023) 63, pp. 558-574

We study the fiscal decentralisation patterns in OECD countries through a club convergence approach. Our analysis covers 30 countries spanning 1995 to 2018 and considers the noncentral expenditure and revenue sides with two perspectives, as percentage of GDP and as percentage of the total...

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The impact of public services outsourcing on work and employment conditions in different national regimes

Mori, Anna - In: European journal of industrial relations 23 (2017) 4, pp. 347-364

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How outsourcing can contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness in the public sector : some indicators about Portugal

Marques, Maria da Conceic̜ão da Costa - In: Problems of management in the 21st century 11 (2016) 2, pp. 93-106

Outsourcing is a practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring working with outside suppliers … rather than performing them internally. Cutting costs are presented as a key benefit in hiring an outsourcing service …-core activities. The study presented here is an early stage of research to be developed on outsourcing in Portugal and its position in …

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