Search Results - subject:"Privatization."

Pensions and power : the political and market dynamics of public pension plans

Kolasi, Erald - In: Review of capital as power 2 (2022) 2, pp. 46-80

This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be "reformed" because they are "under funded", I argue that the metrics used to make this argument are unsound....

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Residual state ownership and firm performance : a case of Vietnam

Manh Hoang Nguyen; Quy Thi Vo - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 6, pp. 1-28

Privatization has played an important role in national economic reform in Vietnam. However, unlike other transitional … countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Vietnam has chosen a partial and gradual privatization where the government still holds … significant ownership in most privatized firms. Whether partial privatization can enhance privatized firms’ performance or full …

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No strings attached : corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality

Bulfone, Fabio; Ergen, Timur; Kalaitzake, Manolis - 2022

provides empirical illustrations of this burgeoning phenomenon from the fields of unconventional monetary policy, privatization …

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Privatizing disability insurance

Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022

Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of public DI cuts. Exploiting a unique reform...

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Verlegenheitslösung oder unternehmerische Chance? Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und der Einstieg von Röchling als Mehrheitsaktionär bei Rheinmetall (1953–1956)

Elzer, Herbert - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 4, pp. 495-528

In the early 1950s state property of large industrial plants was regarded as a burden by the West German Government. Rheinmetall-Borsig, well-known as a former armaments company, was devastated and in sore need of an ingenious entrepreneur with financial capabilities. The Federal Ministries of...

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Reading notes on property rights and institutions

Berge, Erling - 2024

institutional change in the welfare state * On the nature of welfare goods * Privatization and the nature of welfare goods * On the …

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Public or private job placement services — Are private ones more effective?

Stephan, Gesine - In: IZA World of Labor (2024)

Contracting out job placement services might save costs and provide a service capacity buffer in times of increasing unemployment. However, state agencies must be able to ensure a suitable balance between services and quality, and to carefully monitor and evaluate private provider outcomes....

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Bounding the boundless : gendered work hierarchies and "boundless work" in Ontario longterm care homes

Klostermann, Janna; Funk, Laura - In: Studies in political economy : SPE 105 (2024) 3, pp. 196-214

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The systemic aspect of the governance of public institutes : the case of Slovenia

Kozjek, Tatjana; Pečarcič, Mirko - In: Danube : law and economics review 15 (2024) 4, pp. 287-307

The governance of any organisation comprises a system of rules, practises, and procedures that guide and control the organisation. The case study examines the processes, procedures, activities, and problems of decision-making at the level of Slovenian ministries in terms of compliance with...

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Partial privatization and the degree of corporate social responsibility of private investors

Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón, Maria Begoña; … - In: Economic modelling 141 (2024), pp. 1-13

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