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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship
Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021
We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that negative personal circumstances can foster self-reliance,...
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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839064
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Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions in Turbulent Times : A Cross-Country Analysis
Bachmann, Ronald - 2018
This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys : Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2016
household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002449
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Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States
Gaggl, Paul - 2020
Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact … higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydro-electric potential, we find that the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833880
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A Life-Cycle Theory Analysis of French Household Electricity Demand
Bélaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther - 2011
electricity access. We account for self-selection and regional differences by using households from the electrified villages to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117194
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Output Costs of Education and Skill Mismatch
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2020
We propose a simple theory of under- and over-employment. Individuals of high type can perform both skilled and unskilled jobs, but only a fraction of low-type workers can perform skilled jobs. People have different non-pecuniary values over these jobs, akin to a Roy model. We calibrate two...
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One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Huang, Wei - 2015
Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, we provide new evidence for the transferable utility model by showing how China's One-Child Policy induced a significantly higher unmarried...
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