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influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … on local economies. Our findings suggest that housing and to a lesser degree food prices increased, but employment rates …
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Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is … households and firms. The extent to which this is associated with negative impacts on employment depends on the interrelationship …-skilled. Our estimates suggest that the announced increase of the EEG surcharge in 2014 would decrease overall employment in the …
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employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era … dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This comparison reveals that, with only a few exceptions, labor allocation …
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In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
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incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals’ employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
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Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...
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Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
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or emission trading mechanism could be considered ideal policies to mitigate emissions at the lowest cost. The comparison …
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The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
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