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Economic Optimality of CCS Use : A Resource-Economic Model
Narita, Daiju - 2010
CCS (carbon dioxide capture and storage) is an issue which has received increasing attention in the debate on climate change over the last years because of its relative technical simplicity and a large expected potential in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The coexistence of both strong...
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Measuring the benefit-cost ratio of public IPM technology transfer programs: an optimal control framework and an application to Nepalese agriculture
Wiebelt, Manfred - 2000
Despite favourable ecological and economic results, many developing countries have not yet adopted an integrated pesticide management (IPM). Given rising marginal costs and diminishing marginal benefits from IPM technology transfer, an optimal control framework is used to identify optimal rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265444
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The small core of the German corporate board network
Milaković, Mishael; Alfarano, Simone; Lux, Thomas - 2008
the existence of a core in Germany's board and director network. Conditional on being a board member, it is very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270766
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On the environmental effectiveness of the EU marine strategy framework directive
Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2012
Marine and coastal ecosystems - and thus the benefits they create for humans - are subject to increasing pressures and competing usages. For this reason, the European Union (EU) adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which is to guide future maritime policy in the EU and aims at...
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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Complementary tasks and the limits to the division of labour
Görlich, Dennis - 2010
During the recent decades, multitasking has become a more and more common phenomenon at workplaces. Rather than specializing in a job task, workers perform bundles of tasks. Bundling occurs when tasks are complements. Using individual-level data about job tasks, we analyze which tasks are...
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Qualifikationsanforderungen und Arbeitsformen in der Neuen Ökonomie
Christensen, Björn - 2001
Flexibilität des deutschen Ausbildungssystems abhängt. Der expandierende Markt der Zeitarbeit in Deutschland ist ein klares Indiz … market of temporary work in Germany is a clear sign of an increasing demand on flexible manpower use. Nevertheless, growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260571
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The impact of new drug launches on the loss of labor from disease and injury: evidence from German panel data
Bui, Thi Mai Van; Stolpe, Michael - 2007
find that in Western Germany alone each new chemical entity has on average saved around 200 working years in every year of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272956
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Macroeconomic aspects of structural labor market reforms in Germany
Dovern, Jonas; Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2006
Using a newly constructed macroeconometric model for Germany and the rest of the Euro area, we investigate the … macroeconomic effects of structural labor market reforms in Germany. We find that neither the fact that Germany can no longer pursue … Germany by implementing labor market reforms themselves constitute impediments to successful reforms. Reforms would relative …
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Commuting, externalities, and the geographical sizes of metropolitan areas
Bode, Eckhardt - 2006
The paper proposes an econometric approach for quantifying jointly the geographical scope of commuting as well as the various forms of agglomeration economies originating from metropolitan centers. Adopting an urban economics perspective, and using land prices to measure their aggregate effects,...
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