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The Missing Shock: The Macroeconomic Impact of British Privatisation

Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004

The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...

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Railway Privatisation and Regulation in Great Britain

Bolt, Chris - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 4, pp. 16-20

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The Provision of Water Services in the UK

Zabel, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 13-20

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Accounting for Variations in Trade Union Effectiveness: State-Labor Relations in East Central Europe

Avdagic, Sabina - 2003

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

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Financial systems and industrial policy in Germany and Great Britain: the limits of convergence

Vitols, Sigurt - 1995

A widely held view is that, since the 1970s, the nation-state has suffered a significant reduction in its capacity to achieve national economic policy goals through the regulation of the financial system; as a result, national political economies are now characterized by a market-driven...

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Industrial efficiency and state intervention: Labour 1939-51

Tiratsoo, Nick; Tomlinson, Jim - 1993

Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on the debates and initiatives of the wartime period and subsequent implementation of policy under Attlee. The book modifies existing historiography...

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Venture capital industries and policies: Some cross-country comparisons

Teubal, Morris; Luukkonen, Terttu - 2006

The paper summarizes the findings obtained during the first year of the Venture Fun project, carried out in an EU Network of Excellence PRIME and funded from the Sixth Framework Programme. The paper defines the central concepts of the project, identifies questions for further elaboration and...

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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm: The Polish transition experience

De Crombrugghe, Alain; De Walque, Gregory - 2011

Most transition countries used tax-supported wage norms in the early 1990's, as a part of their market liberalization programs. This paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre-set wage norm may promote employment by rotating the labor demand curve perceived by the...

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Transformation of the state? Reactions to the privatization of security in Great Britain

Joachim, Jutta - 2010

intersubjective level. PMSCs and privatization processes in the realm of security are increasingly seen as normal and their legitimacy …

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Privatisierung von Arbeitsvermittlungsdienstleistungen - Wundermittel zur Effizienzsteigerung? Eine Bestandsaufnahme deutscher und internationaler Erfahrungen

Kaps, Petra; Schütz, Holger - 2007

Recent reform proposals assume efficiency gains of further privatization of public placement services. However, since … presents theoretical and empirical findings about these forms of privatization. General requirements for managing contracts and …, the prospects to increase the efficiency of placement services by privatization are considered to be limited due to the …

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