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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation

Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...

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A regression on climate policy : the European commission's proposal to reduce CO2 emissions from transport

Frondel, Manuel (contributor); … - 2008

As part of its efforts to reach the targets of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Commission is currently considering a new directive to reduce the per-kilometer CO2 emissions of newly registered automobiles. This paper critically assesses this proposal with respect to its economic and...

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Returns to education in Europe : detailed results from a harmonized survey

Middendorf, Torge (contributor) - 2008

We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...

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Emissions trading : impact on electricity prices and energy-intensive industries

Frondel, Manuel (contributor); … - 2008

The EU-wide Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), established in 2005, is a key pillar of Europe¿s strategy to attain …

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Trade-FDI linkages in a system of gravity equations for German regional data

Mitze, Timo (contributor); Alecke, Björn (contributor); … - 2009

We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach … one hand, and also their interaction with the 'core' EU15 member states opposed to the overall EU27 aggregate on the other … hand. Taking West German-EU27 trade & FDI as an example, the identified pairwise linkages closely follow the theoretical …

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Fiscal stimulus packages and uncertainty in times of crisis : the option of waiting can be valuable, though!

Belke, Ansgar (contributor) - 2009

Policymakers in the EU member states are currently shaping rescue packages to prevent the financial crisis hitting …

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Financing social security by taxing capital income : a bad idea?

Kunze, Lars; Schuppert, Christiane - 2009

model to match data for the EU15 reveals that European countries can indeed gain in form of higher employment and growth if …

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The importance of global shocks for national policy makers : rising challenges for central banks

Belke, Ansgar; Rees, Andreas - 2009

We analyze the importance of global shocks for the global economy and national policy makers. More specifically, we investigate whether monetary policy has become less effective in the wake of financial globalization. We also examine whether there is increasing uncertainty for central banks due...

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Do parents buy their children's attention?

Meng, Annika - 2009

Past empirical studies on the strategic bequest motive have found evidence for the existence of a positive causation of wealth on receiving attention from on's children. This paper illustrates that these results from the past should be interpreted with some care as the relationship between...

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The impact of cohort size and local labor market conditions on human capital accumulation in Europe

Middendorf, Torge (contributor) - 2007

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