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efficiency. A Consumer Analysis at two levels: national aggregate impacts, and impacts on individuals. The national aggregate …
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This study estimated energy, environmental and consumer economic impacts of U.S. Federal residential energy efficiency …
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energy efficiency standards for furnaces and boilers. A key factor in DOE's consideration of new standards is the economic … impacts on consumers of possible revisions to energy-efficiency standards. Determining cost-effectiveness requires an … appropriate comparison of the additional first cost of energy efficiency design options with the savings in operating costs. DOE …
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technology in terms of material throughput, efficiency, energy usage, environmental effects, and costs. These parameters also …
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The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...
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In support of the federal government's efforts to raise the minimum energy-efficiency standards for residential … consumers that are either benefiting or being burdened by increased standards. Relative to the existing minimum efficiency … benefit or be insignificantly impacted by increased efficiency standards of up to 13 SEER. …
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This study estimated energy, environmental and consumer economic impacts of U.S. Federal residential energy efficiency … standards that became effective in the 1988-2006 period, and of energy efficiency standards for fluorescent lamp ballasts and … national benefits resulting from Federal appliance efficiency standards. …
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This article examines the economic impacts of policy alternatives for addressing allocative inefficiencies among agricultural, urban, and environmental uses of federal water. The Central Valley Project Improvement Act, composed of multiple incentive-based and command-and-control policies, forms...
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The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by macro analysis. Median value-added per employee is nearly 40 times higher in South Korea than Ghana. The most important single factor in explaining this difference is the Mincerian...
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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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