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Employment, earnings and incomes in Scotland

Phillips, David; Waters, Tom; Wernham, Tom - 2023

How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives geographic inequalities within Scotland?

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Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

Borusyak, Kirill; Jaravel, Xavier - 2022

What is the nature of the distributional effects of trade? This paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of 'trade-induced horizontal inequality,' i.e. inequality brought about by trade shocks that occurs among workers with the same level of earnings prior to the shock....

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Distributional effects of exchange rate depreciations: Beggar-thy-neighbour or beggar-thyself?

Fisera, Boris - 2023

While it is often argued that exchange rate depreciation has a beggar-thy-neighbour effect, in this paper, we investigate, whether exchange rate depreciation has a beggarthyself effect. Specifically, we explore the distributional consequences of Exchange rate movements. Using a heterogeneous...

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Social implications of green growth policies from the perspective of energy sector reform and its impact on households

Heindl, Peter; Löschel, Andreas - 2015

This paper reviews the literature on distributional effects of energy and carbon taxation with focus on microsimulation models. Most studies find that direct energy and carbon taxation tends to be regressive. Regressive effects occur mostly with respect to taxation of electricity or space...

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Two price zones for the German electricity market: Market implications and distributional effects

Egerer, Jonas; Weibezahn, Jens; Hermann, Hauke - 2015

We discuss the implications of two price zones, i.e. one northern and southern bidding area, on the German electricity market. In the northern zone, continuous capacity additions with low variable costs cause large regional supply surpluses in the market dispatch while conventional capacity...

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Social implications of green growth policies from the perspective of energy sector reform and its impact on households

Heindl, Peter; Löschel, Andreas - 2015

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Who Bears the Economic Costs of Environmental Regulations?

Fullerton, Don; Muehlegger, Erich - 2017

Public economics has a well-developed literature on tax incidence – the ultimate burdens from tax policy. This literature is used here to describe not only the distributional effects of environmental taxes or subsidies but also the likely incidence of non-tax regulations, energy efficiency...

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A Tale of Two Tails: Commuting and the Fuel Price Response in Driving

Gillingham, Kenneth; Munk-Nielsen, Anders - 2017

distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest … lower and upper tails of the work distance distribution. We further estimate the causal effect of public transport …–a critical determinant of the upper tail–and show how public transport access can both reconcile differences in fuel price …

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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany

Spiess, C. Katharina; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Wagner, Gert G. - In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 11 (2003) 2, pp. 159-175

In general, day care subsidies are accepted as a means of creating equal chances for both children and mothers in the labour market. Although there is a broad consensus that the use of children's day care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done. Moreover,...

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A Complete Characterization of the Distributional Effects of International Outsourcing in the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef - 2001

This paper determines the distributional effects of internationaloutsourcing in a two sector Heckscher-Ohlin type model. It isshown that the factor-biased and the sector-biased impact ofinternational outsourcing discussed in the literature can be seenas special cases of the more general...

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