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How can pure social discounting be ethically justified?

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental …

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … women at the bottom and at the top of the wage distribution. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regression …

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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. …

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Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...

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Intertemporal evaluation criteria for climate change policy: the basic ethical issues

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The evaluation of long-term effects of climate change in cost-benefit analysis has a long tradition in environmental …

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?

Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...

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Assessing the effects of a road surfacing cartel in Switzerland

Hüschelrath, Kai; Leheyda, Nina; Beschorner, Patrick … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...

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Methodologische Grundlagen einer Evaluation von Wettbewerbspolitik

Hüschelrath, Kai - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Thema 'Evaluation of the Actions and Resources of the Competition Authorities' statt. Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis der … Arbeitsvorgabe erst einige Jahre vergangen sind, so hat die Bedeutung der Evaluation von Wettbewerbspolitik seitdem deutlich … methodologischen Überlegungen bestehender Studien, sondern ermöglicht gleichzeitig eine Identifikation von Problemen bei der Evaluation …

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