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There is little known about the effects of staggered-hours programs that affect workers' working schedules to mitigate peak congestion. We examine the effect of workers' morning start times on their wages for Germany. In contrast to previous work based on cross-section data, we demonstrate that...
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adjustment. At the extensive margin, moving tasks offshore destroys jobs. At the intensive margin, due to higher productivity of …
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In the two-country Melitz (2003) model, unilateral trade liberalization is often cast as a reduction of iceberg transportation costs and wages are determined by a linear outside sector. We show that welfare results reverse when wages adjust and trade frictions are revenue-generating tariffs. --...
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Es wird eine Methode zur Messung des Produktionsfaktors Kapital vorgeschlagen, in der Vermögensarten nach ihrem Nutzungswert im Produktionsprozess gewichtet werden. Dazu werden Nutzungskosten für die einzelnen Anlageklassen mit Hilfe von Daten der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen sowie...
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-specific emission intensity decreases strongly with increasing firm productivity. -- Trade and Environment ; Monopolistic Competition …
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1970 to 2008 and compare three different datasets on sectoral productivity, including a newly constructed database on total … factor productivity. Overall, our DOLS estimation results do not support the BS hypothesis. For the last two decades, we find … a very robust negative relationship between the productivity in the tradable sector and the equilibrium real exchange …
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This paper investigates whether the effects of weather variability in temperature and precipitation on agricultural output are short- or long-run. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, the paper attempts to establish whether temperature or precipitation variability affects...
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