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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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Redistribution effects of energy and climate policy : the electricity market
Hirth, Lion; Ueckerdt, Falko - 2012
Energy and climate policies are usually seen as measures to internalize externalities. However, as a side effect, these policies redistribute wealth between consumers and producers, and within these groups. While redistribution is seldom the focus of the academic literature in energy economics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009660458
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571943
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …
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Quantifying the long-term economic benefits of European electricity system integration
Schmid, Eva; Knopf, Brigitte - 2014
This paper analyses a set of model-based decarbonization scenarios in order to quantify the long-term economic benefits that arise from an increasing integration of the pan-European electricity system. It thereby focuses on the interplay between transmission infrastructure and renewable...
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Réforme du marché de l'électricité en Belgique : leçons de l'Espagne, de l'Allemagne et de la Grande-Bretagne
Huveneers, Christian (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003087918
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Doctors without borders : the returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2002
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414878
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Investitionen in Next-Generation-Access-Netze : Zugangsverträge und Regulierung
Inderst, Roman; Kühling, Jürgen; Neumann, Karl-Heinz; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 91 (2011) 6, pp. 406-413
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Investitionen in Next-Generation-Access-Netze : Zugangsverträge und Regulierung
Inderst, Roman; Kühling, Jürgen; Neumann, Karl-Heinz; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 91 (2011) 6, pp. 406-413
notwendige Regulierung kann dabei verschiedene Formen annehmen und zu unterschiedlichen Zeitpunkten ansetzen. Die Autoren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666141
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652681