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This paper deals with the question of how responsive farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are to changes in incentives. Employing Johansen's multivariate cointegration approach, it investigates for ten selected SSA countries the long-run effect of pricing policies, macroeconomic distortions, and...
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This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest...
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In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …
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This paper examines the role of the health gradient – the positive correlation between household income and health – in individual retirement behavior, using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP). We first estimate agegroup-specific health gradients and find their slope increases...
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Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a...
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This study uses the hedonic approach to measure the amenity value of climate in Germany. Unlike in earlier research … what theory would predict. Throughout Germany house prices are higher in areas with higher January temperatures, lower July … temperatures and lower January precipitation. In East Germany wages are higher in areas with higher January precipitation. The full …
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Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
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We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …
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