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How does the market use citation data? : the Hirsch index of economics
Ellison, Glenn - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 5 (2013) 3, pp. 63-90
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728424
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Details matter : the impact of presentation and information on the take-up of financial incentives for retirement saving
Saez, Emmanuel - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 1 (2009) 1, pp. 204-228
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824970
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Returns to private equity : idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor) - 2009
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888739
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions : an effective Tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902960
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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms
Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010
This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665403
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Returns to private equity : idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth (contributor) - 2007 - Rev. version
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003670939
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2009
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873325
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Returns to private equity : idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922530
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The behavioralist goes to school : leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance
Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2012
influence educational performance. Several insights emerge. First, we find that incentives framed as losses have more robust … effects than comparable incentives framed as gains. Second, we find that non-financial incentives are considerably more cost …-effective than financial incentives for younger students, but were not effective with older students. Finally, and perhaps most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550106