The paper deals with various forms of atypical employment in the public sector that are widely neglected in existing research; its specific focus is on their development, scope, distribution and structural features. In the first part we break down the purely sta-tistical category and...

Two recent proposals for overcoming the euro area crisis make the case for monetary financing of the public sector. Watt (2015) proposes that the ECB finances public investment directly, Pâris and Wyplosz (2014) contend that public debt may be effectively restructured by burying parts of it in...

SWD-Schlagwörter: Koproduktion, Bürgerbeteiligung, Governance, Öffentliche Aufgaben. - Freie Schlagwörter (Deutsch): Koproduktion, finanzielle Bürgerbeteiligung, New Public Governance, Öffentliche Aufgabenerfüllung . - Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): citizen financial participation...

Background: The circulation of information through the Internet allows us to promptly and conveniently deliver information. However, it is also causing a simultaneous occurrence of digital information gap and cultural lag phenomena. The gap in the ability to freely access and use Web site...

Diese Dissertation setzt sich mit dem Informationsverhalten von Parlamentarierinnen und Parlamentariern auseinander. Sie untersucht im Besonderen die Rolle von Performance Informationen für Budgetentscheidungen. Die Dissertation besteht aus einer Einleitung, drei Artikeln und einem Schlussteil....

The essay discusses some key features of the wawe of public sector reforms that has swept through the OECD area during the last three decades under the heading of New Public Management. I review what economic theory and the empirical evidence can say about the effects of introducing pay for...

This paper explores the presence of workplace union representatives in the British public sector, and also the extent to which union representatives are engaged in partnership working with management, drawing on data from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2011. This analysis is timely...

Introduction : setting the stage. Introduction to financial management -- Planning. Planning for success : budgeting -- Additional budgeting concepts -- Understanding costs -- Capital budgeting -- Long-term financing -- Implementation and controlling results. Managing short-term resources and...

This report looks at trends in public sector pay and compares these with what has been happening in the private sector. We start by analysing the overall levels of public and private sector pay, including how they have evolved over recent years and the differences after accounting for the...

The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, total government expenditures have been around fifty percent of GDP since the early 2000s, resulting in a growing tax burden or high public debt or both. At the same time, government had intervened...

Introduction to Innovations in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors / Patria de Lancer Julnes and Ed Gibson -- The Study of Innovation : State of the Art and Framework for Analysis / Patria de Lancer Julnes -- Innovations in the Measurement of Cultural Value : The British Museum / Francesca Manes...

The provision and evaluation of public services by non-public actors : concepts and questions / Andrew Gray -- Three models of doing good : recognizing the implications of delivering behavior change and system transformation / Tom Ling -- Philanthropy, the state and public goods / Tobias Jung...