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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409442
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …
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Market externalities of large unemployment insurance extension programs
Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189830
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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013
-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211450
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Price effects of the Austrian fuel price fixing act : a synthetic control study
Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021
whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria's Fuel … estimate Austria's price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415508
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Designing instrument packages for the low-carbon transition : an evaluation framework with an application to Austria
Van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Vogel, … - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria. …
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Conservation contracts and political regimes
Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - 2015
Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal conservation contract, (iii) when the donor prefers contracting with central rather than local governments, and (iv) how the donor's presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515399
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Optimal forest management when logging damages and costs differ between logging practices
Indrajaya, Yonky; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ierland, Ekko C. van - 2014
Papers on optimal harvesting regimes for maximizing land expectation value (LEV) that compare different logging practices often ignore differences in variable costs and in damages on the residual stand between logging practices. We use data on a multi-age, multi-species forest in East-Kalimantan...
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Forest fires : why the large year-to-year variation in forests burned?
Apt, Jay; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - 2023
Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
various groups in society when assessing the sustainability of forestry investments and their impacts on local communities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735970