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Knowing What Works The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
Since interventions by the public sector generally commit substantial societal resources, the evaluation of effects and costs of policy interventions is imperative. This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be performed by...
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Money for Nothing and your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 1999
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …
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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Dipperential
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …
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The heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment : and exploration of German labour market flows ; the European unemployment problem
Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 1, pp. 17-20
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Mindestlöhne und das Entsendegesetz
Bauer, Thomas K.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 87 (2007) 3, pp. 160-163
den Arbeitsmarkt? Welche Wirkungen haben Mindestlöhne und das Entsendegesetz in der Theorie und Empirie? Brauchen wir …
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262390
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A Regression on Climate Policy - The European Commission's Proposal to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Transport
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2008
As part of its efforts to reach the targets of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Commission is currently considering a new directive to reduce the per-kilometer CO2 emissions of newly registered automobiles. This paper critically assesses this proposal with respect to its economic and...
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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free?: The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1999
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068747
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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? A statistical Guinea Pig approach
Requate, Till; Göhlmann, Silja; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2006
The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296265
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The empirical assessment of technology differences: comparing the comparable
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297858