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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Gimpelson, V.; Kapeliushnikov, R.; Lukiyanova, A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549322
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Effekte einer Arbeitszeitverkürzung: empirische Evidenz für Frankreich
Logeay, Camille; Schreiber, Sven - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
In diesem Papier wird an Hand eines Vektorfehlerkorrekturmodells (VECM) für den französischen Arbeitsmarkt untersucht, wie sich die dort Anfang 2000 eingeführte Verkürzung der Regelarbeitszeit in Verbindung mit Subventionen der Sozialversicherungsbeiträge ausgewirkt hat. Theoretisch sind...
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Employment Growth, Inflation and Output Growth: Was Phillips Right?: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Skare, Marinko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …
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Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run
Stockhammer, Engelbert; Klär, Erik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the medium run. The actual empirical explanatory power of measures for labour market institutions, however, has been called into question recently (Baker et al 2005, Baccaro and Rei...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963721
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Implementing CDM Limits in the EU ETS: A Law and Economics Approach
Vasa, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the main instrument to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Subject to a country specific limit, installations in the EU ETS can use EU allowances (EUA) and certified emissions reductions (CERs) generated through the Clean Development Mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526698
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How Emission Certificate Allocations Distort Fossil Investments: The German Example
Pahle, Michael; Fan, Lin; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Despite political activities to foster a low-carbon energy transition, Germany currently sees a considerable number of new coal power plants being added to its power mix. There are several possible drivers for this "dash for coal", but it is widely accepted that windfall profits gained through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794539
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The Effect of Health and Employment Risks on Precautionary Savings
Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper extends the idea of using ex-ante risk measures in a model of precautionary savings by explicitly simulating future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health. The model is estimated for prime age males using the...
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Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963729
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Armut von Erwerbstätigen im europäischen Vergleich: eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung des Einkommensverteilungsprozesses
Lohmann, Henning - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a comparison of 20 countries the present study analyses to what extent this is due to the differences in the institutional framework conditions of a given country. The analyses are based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026830
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Health-Related Life Cycle Risks and Public Insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …
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