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One last puff? : public smoking bans and smoking behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...

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A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : Revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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Cost efficiency and subsidization in German local public bus transit

Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - 2010

Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost...

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Regulation, innovation and technology diffusion : evidence from building energy efficiency standards in Germany

El-Shagi, Makram; Michelsen, Claus; Rosenschon, Sebastian - 2014

The impact of environmental regulation on technology diffusion and innovations is studied using a unique data set of German residential buildings. We analyze how energy efficiency regulations, in terms of minimum standards, affects energy-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces...

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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014

Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the employment effects of these policies for mothers in...

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Two steps forward - one step back? : evaluating contradicting child care policies in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - (This version: June 27 2014)

We apply a structural model of mothers' labor supply and child care choices to evaluate the effects of two childcare reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became effective for all children aged one year or older....

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Konjunktur für den Klimaschutz? : Klima- und Wachstumswirkungen weltweiter Konjunkturprogramme

Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja; Petrick, Sebastian; … - 2009

, aber nicht vermeiden können (für die Welt: Gern et al. 2009, für Deutschland: Barabas et al. 2009). Eine Bewer- tung … liegen die Multiplikatoren für Deutschland am unteren Ende der Skala. In den Vereinigten Staaten wer- den die …- die für Deutschland bei staatlichen Investitionen und bei der Senkung der Sozialversicherungs- beiträge auf etwa den …

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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012

The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...

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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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