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With less than 2% of new renewable energy production, Switzerland is a poor performer in international comparison. A study carried out for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy showed constraints explaining this low number. One of these is a need for companies to optimize their sales process....
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The transformation of the electricity sector is a main element of the transition to a decarbonized economy. Conventional generators powered by fossil fuels have to be replaced by variable renewable energy (VRE) sources in combination with electricity storage and other options for providing...
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condition is that space is two-dimensional. Furthermore, one of the following ingredients is sufficient: on-the-job mobility …, spatiality-differentiated search or heterogeneity of jobs. Residential mobility does not appear to explain the shape of commuting … density function as we observe it. JEL classification: R20, R64, J64 Keywords: commuting, search, mobility …
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creation of the new Metropolitan Authorities of Transportation, which will require Mobility Plans. Even though the Portuguese … law doesn’t impose these Mobility Plans at the present moment, there is a general feeling about the importance of the … mobility system for the society and economics in general. This is the case in highly density areas, where the need and …
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The efficient mobility of goods and labour is one of the most important features of a functioning economy. Using data …-induced restrictions to mobility. These restrictions operated through a system of checkpoints, roadblocks and other barriers installed by … barriers to mobility have had a significant negative effect on employment, wages and days worked per month. Wages are most …
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general population mobility and with a change in the difference of migratory capacities of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad …
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This paper examines the role that human capital plays in firm?s strategic decisions. It focuses on long-distance corporate relocations which present certain trade-offs in terms of human capital and modifies firms? relationship with the labour force. It is assessed to what extent having (an...
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In this paper we study how the determinants of regional commuting in Italy have evolved in the past fifteen years. Using labour force data from 1992 to 2008 we estimate a model where the probability of commuting is regressed on a wide set of individual, job, firm and regional characteristics....
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We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. The UK (until 2014 …) provided an ideal setting to explore the impact of housing transfer taxes on mobility decisions. This is partly because the … to isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other determinants of mobility. In our core analysis we use data from the …
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Mobility of high income individuals across borders puts pressure on governments to lower taxes. A central tenet of the …).We use various treatments to understand the role of mobility and ideology in tax choice. We observe substantial deviations …
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