This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

Outsourcing : organised money and disabled government -- Outsourcing, blame-shifting and major fiascos -- Unjustifiable profit-taking on mundane contracts -- Undisciplined outsourcing conglomerates -- Outsourcing specialists and the gaming of limited liability