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Employment effects and needs for vocational training and qualification in the field of energy-saving building refurbishment : summary and action recommendations
Mohaupt, Franziska; Konrad, Wilfried; Kreß-Ludwig, Michael - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt; Deutschland / … - 2011
The buildings sector accounts for about 40% of final energy consumption in Germany, and by far the largest part of this is due to old buildings. In total, more than 80% of the final energy consumed in households is used for space heating and hot water (Federal Statistical Office 2010)....
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Beschäftigungswirkungen sowie Ausbildungs- und Qualifizierungsbedarf im Bereich der energetischen Gebäudesanierung
Mohaupt, Franziska; Konrad, Wilfried; Kreß-Ludwig, Michael - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt; Deutschland / … - 2011 - Stand: Oktober 2011
Auf den Gebäudebereich entfallen ca. 40% des Endenergieverbrauchsin Deutschland, der weitaus größte Teil ist demAltbaubestand zuzurechnen (BMVBS 2007). Insgesamt werden über 80% der in den Haushalten verbrauchten Endenergie für RaumwärmeundWarmwasserbereitungge-nutzt(Statistisches...
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2011
Standard search models are inconsistent with the amount of frictional wage dis- persion found in U.S. data. We resolve this apparent puzzle by modeling skill development (learning by doing on the job, skill loss during unemployment) and duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293374
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Does banning affirmative action harm college student quality?
Chan, Jimmy; Eyster, Erik - 1999
Banning affirmative action from college admissions decisions cannot prevent an admissions office that cares about diversity from achieving it through channels other than the explicit consideration of race We construct a model of college admissions where candidates from two groups with different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293508
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Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297700
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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US
Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003
Kenngrößen wie der Produktivität, der Qualifikationsstruktur und den Löhnen, wobei Mikrodaten für die USA und Deutschland … verwendet wurden. Dabei kann die Hypothese unterstützt werden, dass in den USA Betriebe stärker experimentieren - gemessen … durchschnittlichen Einfluss der Einführung neuer Technologien auf die Produktivität und die Löhne in den USA als in Deutschland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299237
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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Vergleich sind allenfalls die negativen Dauereffekte der Arbeitslosenversicherung in den USA etwas stärker, während in der …
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Welfare state stabilization of employment careers: Unenployement benefits and job histories in the United States and West Germany
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Economic job search theory offers two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged spell duration and improved...
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Understanding earnings dynamics: Identifying and estimating the changing roles of unobserved ability, permanent and transitory shocks
Lochner, Lance; Shin, Youngki - 2014
We consider a general framework to study the evolution of wage and earnings residuals that incorporates features highlighted by two influential but distinct literatures in economics: (i) unobserved skills with changing non-linear pricing functions and (ii) idiosyncratic shocks that follow a rich...
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
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