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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model
Meier, Volker - 2019
We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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Solar Rebound - The Unintended Consequences of Subsidies
Gautier, Axel - 2019
Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....
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Motivation Crowding in Peer Effects : The Effect of Solar Subsidies on Green Power Purchases
La Nauze, Andrea - 2021
I test whether economic incentives dampen peer effects in public-good settings. I study how a visible and subsidized contribution to a public good (installing solar panels) affects peer contributions that are neither subsidized nor visible (electing green power). Exploiting spatial variation in...
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Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Costa-i-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; … - 2022
We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...
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Optimal Solar Subsidies
Colas, Mark; Saulnier, Emmett - 2023
misallocation. The optimal cost-neutral reform generates environmental benefits equal to those of a 6-11% increase in the …
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The Employment Effects of a Pandemic Wage Subsidy
Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023
We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures … changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage elasticity of employment was 0.11, implying a small aggregate … employment effect of the program and an estimated fiscal cost per job saved of nearly $200,000 per year. Subsidy payments caused …
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy …
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...
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How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
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Energy Contagion in the COVID-19 Crisis
Heinlein, Reinhold - 2020
We investigate the relationship between oil prices and stock markets of selected oil importers and oil exporters at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide evidence in favour of energy contagion, in term of significantly higher correlations between oil and stock markets returns during...
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