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Labor Demand Responses to Changing Gas Prices
Bossler, Mario; Moog, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten - 2023
2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of −0.02, likely reflecting a scale …
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Borderline Disorder : (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822452
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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
Cesur, Resul - 2016
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985288
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Energy Boom and Gloom? Local Effects of Oil and Natural Gas Drilling on Subjective Well-Being
Maguire, Karen - 2016
The United States experienced a considerable increase in oil and natural gas extraction in recent years due to technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both benefits and costs, but the net effects for local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996531
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Engel Curves, Spatial Variation in Prices and Demand for Commodities in Côte D'Ivoire
Gbakou, Monnet - 2011
This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d …), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups of commodities by exploiting a relationship between unit values and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128830
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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?
Jahn, Elke J. - 2010
general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand …
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Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
Anand, Rahul - 2010
-constrained consumers' access to financial markets make demand insensitive to interest rate fluctuations. The demand of credit … price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to …
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Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution
Fabbri, Daniele - 2011
through two channels: the direct impact on the demand for healthcare and that due to selection into VHI. We find evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120428
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Musn't Grumble : Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2012
A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099733
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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
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