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Canary in a coal mine : infant mortality, property values, and tradeoffs associated with mid-20th century air pollution
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2016
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457393
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Zur Preisbildung von Forwardkontrakten im Strommarkt : Eine empirische Untersuchung des deutschen Strom-Terminmarktes
Schnorrenberg, Burkhard - 2006
Im deutschen Strommarkt spielen Forwardkontrakte, über die ein wesentlicher Teil des gesamten Stromhandels abgewickelt wird, eine bedeutende Rolle. Indem zukünftige Stromlieferungen zu einem wesentlich früheren Zeitpunkt preislich fixiert werden, bieten diese Kontrakte die Möglichkeit, auf...
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Sustainability Innovations in the Electricity Sector
Jansen, Dorothea - 2012
Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation -- 2 Contracting and Mikro-KWK - the Role of Municipal Utilities in Germany -- 3 … EU Emissions Trading Schemes -- 7 Microgeneration in the UK and Germany from a Technological Innovation Systems … include Germany, Denmark, the UK, Switzerland, and the Netherlands …
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716531
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652710
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Understanding the technology of computer technology diffusion : explaining computer adoption patterns and implications for the wage structure
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …
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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
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