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Israel presents an intriguing conundrum: on the one hand, it provides quality healthcare in a near-universal healthcare system; on the other, it has maintained healthcare costs level at approximately 7.7% of GDP. This comes at a time when all western nations struggle with one or both sides of...
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examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 …-15 percent following the shift to privatization. In light of the massive change in financial costs associated with childbearing … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …
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The present paper analyzes the top ten Italian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) over the period 2004-2013, after both their corporate organization and their markets have been deeply reformed. We question whether SOEs' strategies are more profit or public oriented. The authors find that, on...
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in significant progress that includes unbundling and privatization of the long-standing government-owned monopoly in the …
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This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …
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