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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …
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Market externalities of large unemployment insurance extension programs
Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189830
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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013
-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/10010211450
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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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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, … - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597829
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 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/10011659414
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Why are pollution damages lower in developed countries? : insights from high-income, high-particulate matter Hong Kong
Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay P. - 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less-developed countries because they are highly polluted. Using administrative data on the universe of births and deaths, we explore birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599044
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Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level
Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 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/10011672453
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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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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading
Donati, Dante - 2022
Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...
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