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-build, construction management, build-operate-transfer, and privatization. Increased use of these evolving methods produces higher levels … for revenue dependent privatization projects such as toll roads. Poor initial performance of toll road projects suggests …
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We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …
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estimate market power (i.e. price-cost margins) and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased …
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In a recent study into the literature, Bel and Fageda (2007) highlighted the lack of the time dimension in research dealing with explanatory factors in the decision to contract out municipal services. In this paper we attempt to evaluate if the argument of Bel and Fageda is true. We do this by...
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REIMER S. (1999) Contract service firms in local authorities: evolving geographies of activity, Reg. Studies 33 , 121-130. The introduction of compulsory competitive tendering has significantly reshaped the nature of manual service provision in local authorities. Since 1989, private firms have...
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As governments consider ways to provide public services more efficiently, privatization can seem like an attractive … much privatization as those in other parts of the country. ; This article examines the evidence on the relative merits of … behavior throughout the United States. The limited scope of privatization by New England local governments defies explanation …
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Western advisors of Eastern reform favour outside, stock-market ownership and control of large privatized enterprise. However, Japanese firms and their Western transplants are dominated by employee stakeholders as implicit residual owners. Their success, and political contraints, suggest a...
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For the last decades, we attend on the recommendations of the International Financial Institutions to the privatization …
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