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Industrial ecology in policy making : what is achievable and what is not?
Pothen, Frank - 2010
Ökobilanz werden die Umweltwirkungen eines Produktes über den ganzen Lebenszyklus hinweg erfasst, von der Wiege bis zur Bahre … erscheint der Ansatz vielversprechend, durch Produkte verursachte Umweltprobleme über den ganzen Lebenszyklus hinweg zu … sektoraler Ebene abbilden und gleichzeitig die Vorteile des Lebenszyklus-Gedankens besitzen. Mit dem Modell wäre es möglich …
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CO2 emission reduction in freight transports how to stimulate environmental friendly behaviour?
Bühler, Georg (contributor); Jochem, Patrick (contributor) - 2008
In the European Union (EU) and in Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990). Especially in road freight and air transport a further strong increase is forecasted. In the transport sector this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751444
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Entry and shakeout in dynamic oligopoly
Hünermund, Paul; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Takahashi, Yuya - 2014
In many industries, the number of firms evolves non-monotonically over time. A phase of rapid entry is followed by an industry shakeout: a large number of firms exit within a short period. We present a simple timing game of entry and exit with an exogenous technological process governing firm...
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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650247
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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447754
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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
, im Lebenszyklus die Kosten um ein Vielfaches. Die Abschätzungen deuten darauf hin, dass die ertragreichste Politik zur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608122
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Human capital investment strategies in Europe
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2011
The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011243
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Life-cycle incidence of family policy measures in Germany : evidence from a dynamic microsimulation model
Bonin, Holger; Reuß, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - 2015
This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with a...
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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: 1 October 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437615
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Productivity, growth, and internationalisation : the case of German and British high techs
Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2004
International engagement is often expected to improve firm performance. Especially for small technology-oriented firms, export activities may be important, being regarded as one way to amortise these firms’ high product research and development costs. This paper examines the relationship...
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