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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

market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …

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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP

Heady, Christopher; Mitrakos, Theodore; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2001

Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...

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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001

labour market the higher the risk of social exclusion. However, the extent to which secure and uninterrupted employment …

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Earnings inequality in Europe: structure and patterns of inter-temporal changes

Cholezas, Ioannis; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2007

The paper provides an analysis of the level, the structure and the patterns of inter-temporal change in hourly earnings inequality in Europe. For the purposes of static inequality decomposition analysis, the data of the ECHP are employed. Considerable cross-country differences are observed...

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On the multivariate analysis of the Lisbon process

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending

Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...

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Learning from Latin America's experience: Europe's failure in the 'Lisbon process'

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2010

The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American dependencia theory for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and basic human needs satisfaction, gender justice, redistribution, growth and employment) on a global...

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The impact of institutions on the employment performance in European labour markets

Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl; … - 2005

This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As … transfer system and active labour market policies. As cointegration between employment, output and factor prices is detected …

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Once poor, always poor? Do initial conditions matter? Evidence from the ECHP

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2011

should focus primarily on education, training, development of personal skills and other labour market oriented policies. The …

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