Haku
Viitteet 1-5 / 5
Housing Allowance and the Rent of Low-income Households
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-11-07)
This paper analyses the effect of a housing allowance programme on the rent paid by assisted low-income households. The data consist of some 12,000 rental households in the free market and municipal sectors during 1994–2003. ...
Optimal Public Procurement Contracts Under a Soft Budget Constraint
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-12-31)
This paper presents a model where the central government cannot ensure that regional governments manage risks prudentially, due to soft budget constraint. Competition for project funding induces the regional governments ...
A Publication Activity Model for Finnish Universities
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-09-02)
This paper presents a publication activity model that calculates a research aggregate for the study fields of Finnish universities. The aggregate is expressed in terms of full-time equivalent research years conditional to ...
Is There an Election Cycle in Public Employment? Separating Time Effects from Election Year Effects
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-05-05)
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two countries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are ...
Understanding Efficiency Differences of Schools: Practitioners' Views on Students, Staff Relations, School Management and the Curriculum
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-09-02)
This study analyses the views of the staff members of nine upper secondary schools in Finland that were in the upper or lower tails of the efficiency distribution measured with stochastic frontier analysis. Teachers and ...