We set up a model of public service provision to study the factors determining whether outsourcing to for-profit and … budgetary cost. Outsourcing provides an incentive for producers to lower quality in order to reduce costs. The cost reductions … compensated by higher factor rewards. Hence public in-house provision may be more cost-efficient than outsourcing. This is …

Outsourcing abhält. Für den Bereich der PPP-Inhabermodelle werden Lösungen aufgezeigt, wie diese Diskriminierung bei der deutschen …

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

Arbeitsvermittlungsdienstleistungen in Australien, Großbritannien (Employment Zones) und den Niederlanden. Aufgrund der deutschen und internationalen … services in Australia, Great Britain and the Netherlands are reflected. In light of the German and international experiences …