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Gas Flaring Reduction in the Indonesian Oil and Gas Sector - Technical and Economic Potential of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects
Indriani, Gustya - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005
Indonesia currently ranks as the world's 17th oil and 6th gas producer, but its production levels are slowly declining. In Indonesia, the oil companies may extract, process and market associated gas jointly with the State Oil and Gas Board. In addition, they are allowed to use associated gas in...
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Sustainable Forestry Investment under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Malaysian Case
Dutschke, Michael - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
In the light of the development of the Malaysian forestry sector in recent years, the article gives an overview over the current discussions around the inclusion of biological carbon sink projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, like forest definitions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989423
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Non-Linearities and Fractional Integration in the US Unemployment Rate
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
with path dependency rather than a NAIRU model with an underlying unemployment equilibrium rate, hence giving support to …
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Taub, Bart - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001
A firm monopsonistically hires labor from a pool containing both skilled and unskilled workers. The marginal value of a worker depends on the match between the job and the worker's skill level. Unskilled workers can have negative productivity if they are placed in a skilled job. The firm cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320472
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Integration and Labour Markets in European Border Regions
Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
Border regions are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by the enlargement of the EU. This paper deals with the effects of integration on labour markets in border regions. Within the framework of different theoretical approaches, the effects of integration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320478
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The Final Frontier? Border Effects and German Regional Wages
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In order to estimate border effects on a regional level one needs not only data on inter-country but...
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New Economic Geography in Germany: Testing the Helpman-Hanson Model
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320480
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Sequential Migration, and the German Reunification
Birk, Angela - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
. With the worker's simulated reservation wage functions for employment and migration, a stationary equilibrium is defined …. In that equilibrium, stationary distributions of employed and unemployed stayers and movers over different states are … referred to this unemployed self-selection of skilled and unskilled migrants. Furthermore, in the stationary equilibrium, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801332
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Subsidizing Education in the Economic Periphery: Another Pitfall of Regional Policies?
Sudekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801338
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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...
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