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Importing Air Pollution? Evidence from China's Plastic Waste Imports
Unfried, Kerstin; Wang, Feicheng - 2022
Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on...
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Less Cash, Less Crime : Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard - 2014
It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit …
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Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - 2021
the initial problems were overcome within one year of the introduction of euro cash …
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Above and Beyond the Call : Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years
Grenet, Julien - 2011
We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we...
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health
Conti, Gabriella - 2012
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
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Works Councils, Collective Bargaining and Apprenticeship Training
Kriechel, Ben - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training in Germany. The German law attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights to training-related issues. Thus, works councils may also have an impact on the cost-benefit relation of...
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
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Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : The Case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results in not fully developed yet institutional infrastructure for managing especially the immigrants flow. In this paper we structure all existing data and other pieces of information...
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The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Muehlemann, Samuel - 2013
This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that average hiring costs amount to more than 8 weeks of wage payments (4,700 Euros). The structure of...
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