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Designing Instrument Packages for the Low-Carbon Transition : An Evaluation Framework with an Application to Austria
van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R.J; Vogel, Johanna - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217087
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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study
Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021
whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …
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COVID-19 and (gender) inequality in income : the impact of discretionary policy measures in Austria
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Kucsera, Dénes; … - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on household income in Austria, using detailed administrative … modeled. We find that discretionary fiscal policy measures in Austria are key to counteracting the inequality- and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608009
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Trapped in inactivity? : the Austrian social assistance reform in 2019 and its impact on labour supply
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia - 2020
Financial incentives affect the labour supply decisions of households, but typically the impact of such incentives varies significantly across household types. While there is a substantial literature on the labour supply effects of tax reforms and in-work benefits, the impact of changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233610
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COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination and household expenditures : regional evidence from Turkish credit card data
Gul, Selcuk; Hacıhasanoğlu, Yavuz Selim; Kazdal, Abdullah - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 11, pp. 988-991
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Trade Costs in Services : Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment
Christen, Elisabeth M. - 2020
This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844212
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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata
Ariu, Andrea - 2019
This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861415
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Service Offshoring and Export Experience
Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Ornelas, Emanuel; Marcolin, Luca - 2021
Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224075
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Corruption and Access to Socio-Economic Services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not exclusively based on merit, but often rather...
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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119643