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Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
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Many developing countries are searching positive impacts on the efficiency, equity and quality provision of the public services through increasing competition and active participation of the private sector, considering public-private partnerships (PPPs) as the appropriate instrument to attain...
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Privatization has certainly been one of the main events of the economic and financial history of the 20th century …. Between 1997 and 2004 more than 4,000 privatization operations were carried out in the world, bringing to governments revenues … factors. This paper investigates the causes of this process, summarizes the main trends of privatization activity at the …
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Privatizing Canada Post would improve its governance, and introducing competition would provide economic discipline that does not at present exist, without imperiling universal service. Compensation for existing postal workers affected by reform would ease the transition.
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This paper deals with main feature of Russia's public sector, privatization plan and changes in the legistation which …
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This paper deals with main feature of Russia's public sector, privatization plan and changes in the legistation which …
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service, the privatization of the telecommunications industry in Peru led to price changes that had an impact on consumer … welfare and that may be correlated with the negative public opinion of the privatization process. …
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growth. Most of the studies surveyed show that privatization enhances privatized firms performance, efficiency, and … frameworks. Partial privatization may be beneficial in countries with weak institutions, namely, the French civil law countries … to economic growth. Overall, privatization allows firms to achieve improved efficiency while driving the development of …
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. However, privatization may increase quality by fostering performance-improving innovation, particularly if combined with … difference-in-difference-in-difference approach. The results indicate that privatization and the associated increase in …
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TThis paper seeks to assess the extent to which a country’s overall level of development and that of its financial sector, in particular, are factors that attract private capital into infrastructure projects. The authors investigate these effects in a 1990–2007 dataset on the power sector in...
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