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This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … coverage in Italy is scarce (12.7 percent versus the OECD average of 30 percent) and the service is “rationed”: each …
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to the effective demand by households in Italy. Controlling for individual characteristics and local external environment …
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This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … coverage in Italy is scarce (12.7 percent versus the OECD average of 30 percent) and the service is "rationed" each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315471
This work investigates the casual effect of childcare attendance on children's school achievements. We analyse data about children's school outcomes in mathematics and language focusing on pupils attending second and fifth grade in Italian primary school in conjunction with data providing public...
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applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and …
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applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982064
The paper provides an analysis of the determinants of health spending differentials among the Italian Regions for the years 1998-2010. An original standardised spending framework is proposed that takes into account the appropriateness of the services provided and price/technical efficiency, as...
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the allocation of public resources and promote catch up of the lagging regions. Italy has launched itself in the … population ageing, which is especially rapid in Italy, so that more tax bases should be devolved to them, especially as pension … effort, and Italy must decide in that context to what extent it can really afford to guarantee uniform national service …
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Expenditures on job placement and related services make up a substantial share of many countries’ GDP. Contracting out to private providers is often proposed as a more efficient alternative to the state provision of placement services. However, the responsible state agency has to design and...
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Mixes of public and private organizations have become major elements of contemporary public policy reform, with governments in many developed countries utilizing private sector organizations to provide funds or delivery options for public services. In particular,the private sector is...
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