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Market Mechanisms in Public Service Provision

Title
Market Mechanisms in Public Service Provision [electronic resource] / Hansjörg Blöchliger
Author
Blöchliger, Hansjörg.
Publication
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2008.

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47 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
Summary
This paper presents a new set of institutional indicators that assess how sub-central governments harness market mechanisms such as tendering, outsourcing, user choice and competition, user fees and output-related funding when providing public services. Services put under scrutiny comprise primary, secondary and tertiary education, hospital care, childcare and elderly care, public transport, and waste collection. Results indicate that governments are often reluctant to apply market mechanisms when providing public services. "Technical" services such as transport or waste collection are more open to market mechanisms than "social" services like education or health care. Regulatory innovations such as tendering, competition or user choice are more advanced than financial innovations like user fees or output-related funding for service providers.
Series Statement
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.626
Uniform Title
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.626.
Subject
Economics
LCCN
10.1787/241001625762
OCLC
oecd-lib
Author
Blöchliger, Hansjörg.
Title
Market Mechanisms in Public Service Provision [electronic resource] / Hansjörg Blöchliger
Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2008.
Series
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.626
OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.626.
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Indexed Term
Economics
Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/241001625762 doi
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