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reduction in 2012). We find a caregiving subsidy (of a magnitude of 530€ in 2011) to increase the probability of informal …, and were attenuated by the reduction of the subsidy …
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start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …
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Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...
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Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers. The system …'s clear eligibility criteria open up an opportunity for a reliable estimation of the causal impacts of the subsidy, using a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment …
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We borrow standard assumptions from the non-renewable-resource-taxation and from the directed-technical-change literatures, to take a full account of the incentives to perform R&D activities in a dirty-resource sector and in a clean-resource-substitute sector. We show that a gradual rise in the...
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This paper develops sufficient conditions under which the Weak Green Paradox may (and may not) hold in terms of subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the substitution to biofuels. Analytical results are derived and...
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The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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with the predictions of our model and that conditioning renewal of the subsidy on school success crucially determines the … effect of the subsidy on teenage pregnancy …
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We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment benefits in favour of income subsidies (social...
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regressions show that under divided government a US state is around 25% more likely to adopt a welfare reform than under unified …
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