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The purpose of this contribution is to illustrate the mechanism by which higher oil prices might lead to lower interest rates in the context of a simple model that takes into account the global external savings equilibrium. The simple model has interesting implications for how one views the huge...
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Einwanderern, die entweder als Kinder oder als Erwachsene in die USA eingewandert sind, zu schätzen. Wir verwenden … Kinder in die USA gekommen sind, beeinflussen. Obwohl die Renditen von Einwanderern, die als Erwachsene in die USA gekommen …
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The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat since then, although to levels much larger than before the first team expansions in 1967. Using publicly available information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for...
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This paper measures energy efficiency improvements of US single-family homes between 1997 and 2001 using a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, an indicator of energy efficiency is derived by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and the analogy between the DEA estimator and traditional...
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This paper reexamines the relation between minimum wages and labor market outcomes for teenagers in the US. Economic theory suggests that real minimum wages drive labor market outcomes. Instead of the commonly used nominal minimum wages, we therefore use real minimum wages to examine this...
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As of late 2008, the steady decline of U.S. crude oil production over the last decades was reversed by the increased adoption of the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") technology. Adapting the supply-side model proposed by Kaufmann et al. (2004) to assess OPEC’s ability to influence real oil...
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Studie) in Deutschland nahe, dass die Einspareffekte tatsächlich deutlich geringer sind als in den USA. … Germany suggests that effect sizes are actually much lower than in the US. … zeigen, dass außerhalb der USA die Höhe der Stromverbräuche und die Kohlenstoffintensität der Stromerzeugung typischerweise …
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This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country’s population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the...
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USA über die letzten sieben Jahrzehnte zu untersuchen. Wir dokumentieren, dass Medianvermögen von Menschen die in der …
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This paper reexamines the relation between minimum wages and labor market outcomes for teenagers in the US. Economic theory suggests that real minimum wages drive labor market outcomes. Instead of the commonly used nominal minimum wages, we therefore use real minimum wages to examine this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164675