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Modelling Economic Impacts of Alternative International Climate Policy Architectures : A Quantitative and Comparative Assessment of Architectures for Agreement

Bosetti, Valentina - 2013

This paper provides a quantitative comparison of the main architectures for an agreement on climate policy. Possible successors to the Kyoto protocol are assessed according to four criteria: economic efficiency; environmental effectiveness; distributional implications; and their political...

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Minimum Wage Incidence : The Case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas - 2008

Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - a Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van - 2008

Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group …

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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021

We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....

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Dynamics and Time Scope of Post War Recovery Required for Compensating Civil War Economic Losses

Nam, Chang Woon - 2013

Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional economic, social and political system, leading...

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Conspicuous Consumption and Communism : Evidence from East and West Germany

Friehe, Tim - 2012

use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

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Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting - Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa - 2013

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2009

For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...

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Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism : A Comparison of Turkish People Living in Turkey and Germany

Akkemik, K. Ali - 2017

people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys …: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online survey of Turkish people living in Germany, and a survey conducted as an … experiment in a mosque attended by Turkish people in Germany. We find striking differences in parenting attitudes between Turkish …

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