Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services

IZA

This 52-page dicussion paper analyzes the incentive effects of performance-based contracts, as well as their impacts on provider job placement rates, using unique data on cohorts of unemployed and disabled workers that were assigned to private social welfare providers

Pierre Koning, Carolyn J. Heinrich

disability

Social Policy , Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-03-28