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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature

Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017

Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there are arguably no significant competitiveness effects on firms, at least … costs indicated by their average share in the budgets of most manufacturing industries may limit the impact of the EU ETS …

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...

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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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The effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on wage behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Child poverty and family transfers in southern Europe

Matsaganis, Manos (contributor) - 2005

family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain … and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …