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Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups besides public interest when allocating...

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Differentiation of Green Taxes: A Political-Economy Analysis for Germany

Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

In this paper we study political-economy determinants of the differentiation of environmental taxes between sectors. Using a common-agency model, we provide predictions on tax differentiation which are then tested using data from the German Ecological Tax Reform. As the reform is revenue neutral...

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The energy-bias of North-South technology spillovers: A global, bilateral, bisectoral trade analysis

Hübler, Michael; Glas, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We examine variations in the South-North ratios (emerging vs. industrialized countries) of energy and labor intensities driven by imports. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral data for 40 countries and 35 sectors for 1995-2009. We find...

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Which indicators of absorptive capacity enhance import-induced South-North convergence in labor intensities?

Hübler, Michael; Glas, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral panel data for 39...

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Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

particular demographic groups. These developments can largely be accounted for by worse matching of people to jobs in the high-unemployment …

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Wage Moderation in France

Estevão, Marcello M.; Nargis, Nigar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment …

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Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?

Estevão, Marcello M.; Sa, Filipa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals' choice or a tool to coordinate individuals' preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek reduction in France from 39 to 35 hours, which was...

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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …

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Product Market Regulation and the Benefits of Wage Moderation

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

unemployment or faster growth. Weak output growth after such a cost shock is somewhat puzzling and has led some to question the … structurally slower real wage growth, that is, "wage moderation," does raise output growth and lower unemployment rates. However, I …

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Has the Great Recession Raised U.S. Structural Unemployment?

Estevão, Marcello M.; Tsounta, Evridiki - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that supports that changes in state-level unemployment rates are linked … causality going from mismatches and housing conditions to unemployment rates. The numerical estimates imply that the structural … unemployment rate in 2010 was about 1Â¾ percentage points higher than before the onset of the housing market meltdown at end-2006 …

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