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Spatial sorting : conference paper
Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2013
We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general equilibrium model of location choice by heterogeneously skilled workers, and consider different degrees of complementarities between the skills of workers. The nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337849
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Do public investments increase employment in a recession? : evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin - 2013
In 2009, Germany invested 15.4 Billion Euro in infrastructure to avert the looming recession. In this study, we … exogenous cross-sectional variation to identify the casual effect of stimulus investment on the change in unemployment on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341046
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Does short-time work save jobs? : a business cycle analysis ; conference paper
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013
unemployment and output fluctuations. The central question is whether short-time work saves jobs in recessions. In our baseline … scenario the rule based component of short-time work (i.e., due to the existence of the institution) stabilizes unemployment …-time work interventions (i.e., rule changes) do not have any statistically significant effect on unemployment. These effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344643
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Labor in the new economy
Abraham, Katharine G. (ed.); Spletzer, James (ed.);  … - 2010
Trends in compensation and job quality. What do we really know about changes in wage inequality? / Thomas Lemieux ; comment: Lawrence F. Katz -- Recent trends in compensation inequality / Brooks Pierce ; comment: Daniel S. Hamermesh -- Are the new jobs good jobs? / Katharine G. Abraham and James...
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Clean-development investments : an incentive-compatible CGE modeling framework ; conference paper
Böhringer, Christoph; Rutherford, Thomas F.; … - 2013
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) established under the Kyoto Protocol allows industrialized Annex I countries to offset part of their domestic emissions by investing in emissions-reduction projects in developing non-Annex I countries. We present a novel CDM modeling framework which can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339381
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Optimally differentiated carbon prices for unilateral climate policy
Boeters, Stefan - 2013
Economic thought on climate policy as an instance of environmental regulation is strongly influenced by the principle of a uniform carbon price. Economists acknowledge that this principle breaks down in a second-best world with other distortions, such as taxes and market power in domestic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343780
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Employment effects of local business taxes : conference paper
Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014 - This version: June 30, 2014
This is the first paper to thoroughly investigate the employment effects of corporate taxation. Higher taxes are theoretically shown to have a negative impact on employment through reduced investments, if labor is regionally mobile. I test this prediction by exploiting the specific setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010482472
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Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341614
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Panelanalysen zu Lohnstruktur, Qualifikation und Beschäftigungsdynamik
Bellmann, Lutz (ed.) - 1999
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Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Umwelt
Kasch, Robert; Wilde, Harald; Stern, Bertrand - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000671740