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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383456
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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 (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364501
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Tax evasion, welfare fraud, and “the broken windows” effect : an experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2011
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … examples of high compliance exert no influence; (iv) tax evasion is more frequent in France and the Netherlands; Walloons evade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012189
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Two-tier labor markets in the great recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757525
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A cross-country empirical analysis of international reserves
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2009
Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850507