This paper reviews the extent to which OECD countries have opened the provision of publicly funded services to competition among public and private suppliers. The paper lays out an analytical framework identifying the inherent incentive and efficiency issues associated with the provision of publicly funded services and outlines how they may be addressed via performance-related funding, benchmarking, contracting-out by public agencies and voucher schemes which allow users to choose among suppliers while maintaining public funding. Also, the empirical literature on contracting-out of technical and support services and on school choice is reviewed. In compulsory education, the provision mode is relatively uniform across OECD countries with mos...
This paper discusses a theoretical framework to study the issues of com-petition and incentives with...
This paper presents composite indicators of the institutional and policy characteristics of educatio...
This paper investigates the effect of the organisational structure of primary and secondary educatio...
This paper presents a new set of institutional indicators that assess how sub-central governments ha...
Public services, such as education and health care, are provided by both public and private actors. ...
A Public Private Partnership (PPP) makes it possible to disentangle funding from operation. One form...
We analyze the reform of public sector welfare services such as education. In this paper we compare ...
__Abstract__ The way how public services are delivered has changed fundamentally in past decades...
Even if both the health and the educational sector are under the state supervision in basically all ...
A current issue is the evaluation of the efficiency of various types of education service providers....
Over the past 40 years, the service sector has become the dominant area of market economies. The pub...
YesPublic sector state funded organisations were initially constructed to deliver much needed servic...
The availability of public funding for private schools, in both primary and secondary education, has...
We analyse the effect of competition on quality provision in mixed markets, such as healthcare and ed...
This paper aims at assessing the level of efficiency of public R&D spending and public R&D support f...
This paper discusses a theoretical framework to study the issues of com-petition and incentives with...
This paper presents composite indicators of the institutional and policy characteristics of educatio...
This paper investigates the effect of the organisational structure of primary and secondary educatio...
This paper presents a new set of institutional indicators that assess how sub-central governments ha...
Public services, such as education and health care, are provided by both public and private actors. ...
A Public Private Partnership (PPP) makes it possible to disentangle funding from operation. One form...
We analyze the reform of public sector welfare services such as education. In this paper we compare ...
__Abstract__ The way how public services are delivered has changed fundamentally in past decades...
Even if both the health and the educational sector are under the state supervision in basically all ...
A current issue is the evaluation of the efficiency of various types of education service providers....
Over the past 40 years, the service sector has become the dominant area of market economies. The pub...
YesPublic sector state funded organisations were initially constructed to deliver much needed servic...
The availability of public funding for private schools, in both primary and secondary education, has...
We analyse the effect of competition on quality provision in mixed markets, such as healthcare and ed...
This paper aims at assessing the level of efficiency of public R&D spending and public R&D support f...
This paper discusses a theoretical framework to study the issues of com-petition and incentives with...
This paper presents composite indicators of the institutional and policy characteristics of educatio...
This paper investigates the effect of the organisational structure of primary and secondary educatio...