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We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...
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debt crisis has prompted a fundamental re-evaluation of public debt sustainability and the looming threat of sovereign debt … fiscal sustainability for the period from 1950 to 2010. This evidence leads to the conclusion that Germany's public debt is … default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany …
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newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …This paper provides new evidence on the sustainability of public finances in German states (Laender) by exploiting a …
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In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of … Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender … and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In order to assess the fiscal sustainability of the (Laender) we …
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Fiscal sustainability tests have largely ignored the institutional setting of fiscal policy making. Fiscal equalization … policies taking into account fiscal equalization transfers. Using panel data techniques we assess fiscal sustainability by … unsustainable. -- fiscal sustainability ; institutions ; fiscal equalization schemes ; panel data …
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In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross … sustainability criteria. According to our results, politicians have significantly reacted to increasing debt levels by increasing …
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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Welfare economic analysis of health issues and policies can provide well balanced orderings of the state of the economy. This paper provides an innovative framework for welfare economic analysis of the relationships between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare for both a...
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We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...
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In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human...
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