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We quantify labour market effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in Poland. Individual workers' PBD depends on the county unemployment rate relative to the national average - 12 months of PBD above a cut-off of 125 per cent and 6 months below. This cut-off shifted from 125 to...
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The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany’s energy policy which led … to the immediate shut down of nearly half of its nuclear power plants. This paper uses data from Germany’s largest …
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The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led … to the immediate shut down of nearly half of its nuclear power plants. This paper uses data from Germany's largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318435
's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy.We further …
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Germany and the US considering fatal occupational injury risk. The Blinder-Oaxaca method for tobit models is used to decompose …
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This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months).This feature allows us to...
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Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....
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Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …
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. Heterogeneity in unemployment and transition rates differ between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East … Germany, all demographic cells are almost entirely detached from the cycle. Women are less influenced by the cycle in their re …
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exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military …
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