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Joint Retirement of Couples : Evidence from Discontinuities in Denmark
García-Miralles, Esteban; Leganza, Jonathan M. - 2021
We study how social security influences the retirement behavior of couples. First, we exploit over two decades of full-population data and a discontinuity design to document sizable retirement spillovers to spouses when individuals reach pension eligibility age. Next, we explore underlying...
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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market : Lessons from 40 Years of Post-Arrival Policies in Denmark
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …
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Climate Mitigation Policy in Denmark : A Prototype for Other Countries
Batini, Nicoletta; Parry, Ian; Wingender, Philippe - 2021
Denmark has a highly ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. While … there is general agreement that carbon pricing should be the centerpiece of Denmark’s mitigation strategy, pricing needs to … strategy Denmark develops can be a good prototype for others to follow. This paper discusses mechanisms to scale up domestic …
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Linking Changes in Inequality in Life Expectancy and Mortality : Evidence from Denmark and the United States
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020
inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in …
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Marriage and the City
Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2021
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
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Child Penalties in Politics
Fiva, Jon H.; King, Max-Emil M. - 2022
Women tend to experience substantial declines in their labor income after their first child is born, while men do not. Do such “child penalties” also exist in the political arena? Using extensive administrative data from Norway and an event-study methodology, we find that women drop out of...
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The Effects of Heterogeneous Sanctions on Exporting Firms —Evidence from Denmark
Jäkel, Ina; Østervig, Søren Aasborg; Yalcin, Erdal - 2022
register data, including information on firm-destination-specific exports, with information on sanctions imposed by Denmark …
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Environmental policy under model uncertainty: a robust optimal control approach
Funke, Michael; Paetz, Michael - 2007
Model uncertainty is inherent in the design of optimal environmental policy. We investigate the consequences in a simple linear model, where the aim of the policymaker is to stabilize the carbon content of the atmosphere. We study how decision-makers' concerns about robustness alter policy using...
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
It has long been argued that the implementation of market-based environmental policy instruments such as environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the...
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Optimal liability sharing and court errors: An exploratory analysis
Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella - 2010
We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers, as an environmental policy instrument. Using a structural model of the interactions between firms, financial institutions, governments and courts we show, through numerical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270509