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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
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The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
technological innovation and creation of green jobs. There are three main support mechanisms employed by governments to finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884228
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the effectiveness of renewable energy development, technological innovation, and market regulations in carbon emission …
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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886132
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector
Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …
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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and … longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735636