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Energy poverty indicators: Conceptual issues. Part I: The ten-percent-rule and double median/mean indicators
Schuessler, Rudolf - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment of the underlying phenomena: inappropriately high costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957698
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Energy poverty indicators: Conceptual issues. Part I: The ten-percent-rule and double median/mean indicators
Schuessler, Rudolf - 2014
Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment of the underlying phenomena: inappropriately high costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368435
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Web mining of firm websites: A framework for web scraping and a pilot study for Germany
Kinne, Jan; Axenbeck, Janna - 2018
Nowadays, almost all (relevant) firms have their own websites which they use to publish information about their products and services. Using the example of innovation in firms, we outline a framework for extracting information from firm websites using web scraping and data mining. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893504
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Predicting innovative firms using web mining and deep learning
Kinne, Jan; Lenz, David - 2019
(science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack …. In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to create firm-level innovation indicators at the scale of millions of … firms. We use traditional firm-level innovation indicators from the questionnaire-based Community Innovation Survey (CIS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960336
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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694115
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Fighting hard core cartels
Hüschelrath, Kai; Weigand, Jürgen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
between four subsequent stages - characterisation, welfare effects, enforcement and evaluation - the paper pays particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756435
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A methodology for the evaluation of competition policy
Hüschelrath, Kai; Leheyda, Nina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
The paper develops a methodology for the evaluation of competition policy. Based on the existing literature and … provides guidance for evaluation projects and also assists in the identification of avenues for further academic research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756441
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957600
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Three Approaches to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany Using Regional Data
Hagen, Tobias - 2003
the regional allocation rule of the funding of ALMPs and the fundamental simultaneity problem in macroeconomic evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297275
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Assessing Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring is Not Enough!
Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297279