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Political feasibility of emission trading systems may crucially depend on the free initial allocation of emission … potential trade-off between such compensation and economic efficiency for alternative allocation rules where emission allowances … is. Whenever the permit price can be considered exogenous to firms or industries, the output-based allocation rule is …
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We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the outflows from employment (to identify displacement effects)...
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Given the vital and controversial debate on fairness concerns in international climate negotiations, the acceptance of a climate treaty may be fostered if the distribution of costs and benefits from global environmental protection is perceived to be "fair". Since an agreement must be acceptable...
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We investigate the prospects of voluntary ecological sufficiency for environmental and climate policy under the constraints implied by political liberalism. We find that freedom of choice restricts sufficiency to rather wealthy societies and that a sufficiency threshold cannot be derived by...
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characteristics that are responsible for the effect heterogeneity and using this information for a better allocation of individuals …
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A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …
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Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May 2001, we evaluate the effects of this active labour market policy programme on the employability of the participating individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering...
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effectiveness of these measures, however, is ambiguous and calls for an empirical evaluation. In this paper we make use of the IAB …
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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...
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