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"Other countries have already privatised their job placement systems to a greater extent than Germany has. This concerns such different welfare state regimes as Australia and Great Britain on the one hand and the Netherlands - and more recently also Belgium and Denmark - on the other hand....
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"This article examines the consequences of contracting-out on the basis of the four criteria of efficiency, economy, effectiveness and equality (3 or 4 e's concept), which are borrowed from New Public Management research. The paper is based on 76 expert interviews and informative discussions...
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"Institutional changes in the governance of employment services were the starting point of comprehensive labour market and social policy reforms - the so-called Hartz-reforms (2003-2005) - in Germany. Particularly with the Hartz IV reform in 2005 Germany's status- and occupation-oriented social...
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"Institutional changes in the governance of employment services were the starting point of comprehensive labour market and social policy reforms - the so-called Hartz-reforms (2003-2005) - in Germany. Particularly with the Hartz IV reform in 2005 Germany's status- and occupation-oriented social...
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"In many countries, employment services are contracted out to private providers. However, there is little evidence on the contract design as well as on the effects of differential pricing on private provider performance. This paper contributes to the literature by presenting detailed information...
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Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...
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activities. The result of this is that outsourcing has contributed to an increase in the strategic impact of purchasing … departements. This article builds on the reasoning that the outsourcing process belongs to the purchasing departments themselves …. Two fundamental questions are asked: What purchases should be covered by outsourcing? Which activities, internal to the …
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We use agency theory to shed light on a complex, multi-year outsourcing contract between an important public …
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Das im Auftrag des bayerischen Finanzministeriums erstellte Gutachten zeigt, dass die Vorschläge der CDU/CSU zur Steuerreform im Vergleich zum Regierungskonzept zu einem stärkeren Absinken der Grenzsteuerbelastung für Arbeitnehmer führen und somit eine positivere Wirkung auf die...
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