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Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there are arguably no significant competitiveness effects on firms, at least … costs indicated by their average share in the budgets of most manufacturing industries may limit the impact of the EU ETS …
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The proposal to amend Council Directive 2011/85/EU on the EU budgetary framework may result in changes in the role of … its infancy in Germany compared to other EU countries, there are some examples that show how green budgeting elements can … basis: a genuine green budgeting concept has not been developed. With the focus on green budgeting, the EU is starting to …
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This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of “class size” and time-in-term, other school factors and student...
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Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...
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This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for …
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We study the accuracy of job seekers' wage expectations by comparing subjective beliefs to objective benchmarks using linked administrative and survey data. Our findings show that especially job seekers with low objective earnings potential and those predicted to face a penalty compared to their...
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The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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