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Energy price shocks and the demand for energy-efficient housing : evidence from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Braakmann, Nils; Dursun, Bahadir; Pickard, Harry - 2023
How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's
Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001
and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339676
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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor);  … - 2008
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402871
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The operational risk disclosure practices of banks : evidence from India and Romania
Kumar, Muneesh; Soni, Harshmeeta; Mocanu, Mihaela - In: The journal of operational risk 14 (2019) 2, pp. 61-87
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Hitting where it hurts most: COVID-19 and low-income urban college students
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020
Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284795
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Long-run effects from comprehensive student support : evidence from pathways to education
Lavecchia, Adam; Oreopoulos, Philip; Brown, Robert S. - 2019
We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow...
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Labour supply and informal care supply : the impacts of financial support for long-term elderly care
Hollingsworth, Bruce; Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo; … - 2017
We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731924
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Does it matter who cares for you? : the effect of substituting informal with formal personal care on the care recipients' health
Hollingsworth, Bruce; Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo; … - 2022
We show that a Scottish policy reform, which introduced free formal personal home care for those aged 65 and above, reduced the probability and the hours of receiving informal personal care. Moreover, we find that the group of individuals that most benefited from the policy introduction, i.e....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330646