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The potential for energy efficiency gains in the Canadian commercial building sector: A stochastic frontier study

Buck, J.; Young, D. - In: Energy 32 (2007) 9, pp. 1769-1780

The achievement of energy efficiency in commercial buildings is a function of the activities undertaken, the technology in place, and the extent to which those technologies are used efficiently. We study the factors that affect efficient energy use in the Canadian commercial sector by applying a...

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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

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After-hours power status of office equipment in the USA

Webber, Carrie A.; Roberson, Judy A.; McWhinney, Marla C.; … - In: Energy 31 (2006) 14, pp. 2823-2838

Office equipment is expected to be the fastest-growing segment of commercial energy use over the next 20 years, yet many aspects of office equipment energy use are poorly understood. User behavior, such as turning off devices at night or enabling power management (PM), influences energy use to a...

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Economic analysis of the profitability of energy-saving architectural measures for the achievement of the EPB-standard

Audenaert, A.; De Boeck, L.; Roelants, K. - In: Energy 35 (2010) 7, pp. 2965-2971

Energy efficiency in buildings has become a key goal of any energy policy. Europe relies on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), which has been converted by Flanders into the ‘Energy Performance and Interior Climate’ (EPB). Taking into account this Flemish EPB-standard (in...

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A computational tool for evaluating the economics of solar and wind microgeneration of electricity

Kelleher, J.; Ringwood, J.V. - In: Energy 34 (2009) 4, pp. 401-409

This paper presents a method, implemented as a freely available computer programme, which is used to estimate the economics of renewable microgeneration of electricity from wind and solar energy sources. A variety of commercial small wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) panels are considered and...

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Modeling and on-field testing of a Solar Rice Cooker

Mahavar, S.; Rajawat, P.; Marwal, V.K.; Punia, R.C.; … - In: Energy 49 (2013) C, pp. 404-412

This paper presents modeling, fabrication and on-field testing of a Solar Rice Cooker (SRC). Modeling includes the development of a theoretical formalism to compute available solar power (qa) from different components of the system; describes suitable component materials and also includes the...

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Pension policies, retirement and human capital depreciation in late adulthood

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2020

Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...

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A structural analysis of mental health and labor market trajectories

Jolivet, Grégory; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2020

We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market with search frictions, where we account for the...

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Public-sector compensation over the life cycle

Gomes, Pedro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2020

The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a quantitative partial-equilibrium life-cycle model with incomplete markets, private and public sectors, and risk-averse workers, and use it to (i) calculate three dimensions of...

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Geographic mobility over the life-cycle

Díaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly...

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