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Real wages and the business cycles in Germany
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany …. -- real wages ; business cycle ; frequency domain ; time domain ; Germany ; trend-cycle decomposition ; structural time series …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009395
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548648
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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
-preserving system based on an open two-sided market in which buyers and sellers of peer review services would both be subject to a set … such an open market in which all elements are subject to peer review will over time lead to specialized reviewers in … market set-up would both professionalize the peer review process and make it completely transparent, an innovation long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458074
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On market forces and human evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414433
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The economics of assisted reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. (contributor) - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002549126
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Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study
Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422194
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755931
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The benefits of linking CGE and microsimulation models : evidence from a flat tax analysis
Peichl, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
modelling flat tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking the general equilibrium effects into account has important implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759271
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777808
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Promotions and incentives : the case of multi-stage elimination tournaments
Altmann, Steffen (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage elimination tournaments. The main treatment of our laboratory experiment is a two-stage tournament...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777950