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Report on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council (Doc. 413/74) for regulations on the fixing of prices for certain agricultural products and connected measures for the 1975/76 marketing year. EP Working Document, Document 1974-1975 437/74, 13 January 1975
Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based incentive contracts stress their potential unintended effects, including cream-skimming and other gaming activities intended to raise measured performance outcomes. We analyze the incentive effects of performance-based contracts, as well as their impacts on provider job placement rates, using unique data on Dutch cohorts of unemployed and disabled workers that were assigned to private social welfare providers in 2002-2005. We take advantage of variation in contract design over this period, where procured contracts gradually moved from partial performance-contingent pay to contracts with 100%-performance contingent reward schemes, and analyze the impact of these changes using panel data that allow us to control for cohort types and to develop explicit measures of selection into the programs. We find evidence of cream-skimming and other gaming activities on the part of providers but little impact of these activities on job placement rates. Overall, moving to a system with contract payments fully contingent on performance appears to increase job placements for more readily employable workers, although it does not affect the duration of their jobs.social welfare, performance contracting
Total reaction cross sections from 141Pr(,)Pr elastic scattering and -induced reaction cross sections at low energies
Elastic scattering data for Pr(,)Pr have been
analyzed to derive a new energy-dependent local potential for the
Pr- system. This potential is used successfully to predict the
cross section of the Pr(,n)Pm reaction at low energies
where new experimental data have become available very recently. Contrary to
various global potentials, this new potential is able to reproduce
simultaneously elastic scattering data around and above the Coulomb barrier and
reaction data below the Coulomb barrier for the Pr- system.
Reasons for the partial failure of the global potentials are explained by
intrinsic properties of the scattering matrix and their variation with energy.
The new local potential may become the basis for the construction of a new
global -nucleus potential.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, Phys. Rev. C, accepte
Team incentives in public organisations; an experimental study
Using a simple production game, we investigate whether public firms perform better when they increase the power of their workersââ¬â¢ incentive schemes. In a laboratory experiment, subjects choose between a ‘public firm’ and a ‘private firm’ with team and individual incentives, respectively. When exposed to individual incentives, workers in the public firm increase effort in one parametrisation, but show a decrease in another. One reason for the latter observation is that reciprocators self-select in the public firm, rendering cooperation profitable.
Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture on the action programme 1977-1980 for the progressive achievement of balance in the milk market (Doc. 247/76) and on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council (Doc. 248/76) for a regulation introducing a premium system for the non-marketing of milk and milk products and for the conversion of dairy cow herds. EP Working Documents, document 343/76, 12 October 1976
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