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Modelling economic impacts of alternative international climate policy architectures : a quantitative and comparative assessment of architectures for agreement
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Sgobbi, Alessandra; … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763299
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Does part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood lead to regular work later? : a comparison of labor behavior of mothers with young children in Germany, Britain, the Ne...
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 15-23
We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495283
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Does part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood lead to regular work later? : A comparison of labor market behavior of mothers with young children in Germany, Britain,...
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 15-23
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001574202
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(Not) sharing the fruits of growth : the impact of governments and markets on living standards in Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, 1986 - 95
Headey, Bruce; Headey, Stephen; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 115-122
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001574265
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226751
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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771867
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Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz : eine Gegenüberstellung
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 3, pp. 118-154
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385900
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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage … in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum … wage, 2) a combination of minimum wages and wage subsidies as e.g. in France and the Netherlands, and 3) pure wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803539
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Collective labor supply of native Dutch and immigrant households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Maassen … - 2009
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922862
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency : the case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; … - 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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