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Estonia and the European Monetary Union – Are there Benefits from a ""Late"" Accession?
Baas, Timo - 2014
The failure of the Maastricht criteria delayed Estonia's accession to the European Monetary Union (EMU) until January 2011. During this time, trading shares with Eurozone countries declined, raising questions about the optimal accession time. In this study, the macroeconomic effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420997
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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany: Evidence from a double cohort model
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
Following the seminal work of Chiswick (1978), many studies have examined the extent to which earnings of immigrants vary over the settlement process. While these studies usually find that the initial earnings gap between native and immigrant workers in traditional immigration countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521037
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Estonia and the European Monetary Union – Are there Benefi ts from a “Late” Accession?
Baas, Timo - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
The failure of the Maastricht criteria delayed Estonia’s accession to the European Monetary Union (EMU) until January 2011. During this time, trading shares with Eurozone countries declined, raising questions about the optimal accession time. In this study, the macroeconomic eff ects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814382
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Energy efficiency and local rebound effects: Theory and experimental evidence from Rwanda
Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, Maximiliane; … - 2022
Energy efficiency is a key component of climate policy. We study micro and macro rebound effects after the introduction of energy-efficient biomass cookstoves (EEBCs). We develop a model of biomass supply and demand in rural Africa. The impact of EEBCs is empirically explored in Rwanda where we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822342
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Hysteresis Effects in Economics – Different Methods for Describing Economic Path-dependence
Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias; Werner, Laura - 2014
Relations between economic variables are often characterized by a situation where initial conditions and the past realizations of economic variables matter. I.e. past (transient) exogenous disturbances and past states of the economic system do have an influence on the current economic relations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328006
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Hysteresis Effects in Economics – Different Methods for Describing Economic Path-dependence
Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias; Werner, Laura - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
Relations between economic variables are often characterized by a situation where initial conditions and the past realizations of economic variables matter. I.e. past (transient) exogenous disturbances and past states of the economic system do have an influence on the current economic relations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752610
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Agglomeration Effects and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment – Evidence from French First-time Movers
Procher, Vivien - 2009
absolute and relative agglomeration measures suggest that French investors are rather attracted by firm cluster in general, or … by the unobserved factors that led to the agglomeration in the first place, than by any nation-specific firm cluster. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265823
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Agglomerations, tasks and wage growth
Perl, Maximilian - 2023
agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the city-size wage gap. After 15 years of work experience in Munich the cumulative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000379
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What explains the urban wage premium? Sorting, non-portable or portable agglomeration effects?
Frings, Hanna; Kamb, Rebecca - 2021
wage premium. More explicitly, we distinguish worker sorting, as well as portable and non-portable agglomeration effects … used for identification and provide guidance how this selectivity can be reduced. Agglomeration effects explain about one … third of the urban wage premium, with portable and non-portable agglomeration effects being of similar importance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599185
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Agglomeration Effects and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment – Evidence from French First-time Movers
Procher, Vivien - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
absolute and relative agglomeration measures suggest that French investors are rather attracted by firm cluster in general, or … by the unobserved factors that led to the agglomeration in the first place, than by any nation-specific firm cluster. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548396