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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Lalive, Rafael - 2013
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …
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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes
Danzer, Natalia - 2017
a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953697
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250741
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2021
-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315686
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Nighttime Lights as a Proxy for Human Development at the Local Level
Bruederle, Anna - 2017
Nighttime lights are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity and economic development in subnational spatial units. However, so far, our understanding of what nighttime lights capture is limited. We construct local indicators of household wealth, education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950603
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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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The Long-Run Evolution of Infrastructure Services
Goldsmith, Hugh - 2014
This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and diffusion. Throughout history, the key role of the State is self-evident. Private sector involvement has waxed and waned over millennia, although at times it has been pivotal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043210