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of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while safety checks were carried out, and a three-month moratorium on … companies to renewable energies companies in Germany. We moreover find that the joint market capitalization of these firms has …
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Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …
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study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
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Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...
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recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on … the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …
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model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
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Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
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distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods … with rich cellular tracking and high frequency air pollution data.We find that state and U.S. county safer-at-home policies … range from $7 billion to $24 billion while the benefits from reduced pollution could range from $650 million to $13 …
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Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...
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This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and …
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