Showing 1 - 10 of 177
This paper presents an analysis of pension funds' performance in Poland and Hungary, two Central European countries characterized by strong regulation of their private pension fund industries. Thus, the paper extends the literature which has so far mostly focused on performance of pension fund...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665401
Umweltinnovationen zu testen. Die Wirkungen von Umweltinnovationen auf den Unternehmenserfolg sind grundsätzlich ambivalent. Einerseits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660559
This paper deals with designing emissions trading in practice. After a short introduction to the general idea of emissions trading, practical requirements for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme are considered, including the temporal and spatial dimension as well as administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509684
Applying a variant of a non-parametric matching estimator, we consider European funding and national funding as heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and performance. In terms of input, getting funding from both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244220
This paper analyzes the medium-term growth performance of firms that exclusively received start-up assistance from programs administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA), a state owned bank, within two years after startup. I apply a parametric selection approach that controls for two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446100
With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to several reforms that resemble the range of approaches for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784704
In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of employment services was reorganized at once, making an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314709
We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … impact of the reform. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618892
of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … macroeconomic effects of the German labor market reforms of 2005 and 2006 (Hartz Reforms). We find that the 2005-reform had large … 2006-reform are qualitatively similar, but quantitatively much smaller. We also show that the social welfare maximizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008651589
allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform … considerably. Differences in the reform spillover effects between foreign countries are mainly due to differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286047