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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement
Fries, Jan - 2014
This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016
A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. This paper is the first to estimate the labor demand effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC) for Europe as a whole and at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514667
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Employment effects of innovations over the business cycle : firm-level evidence from European countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Koehler, Christian; … - 2016
A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper, we investigate the employment effects of innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563081
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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016
The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563084
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Climate change policy and burden sharing in the European Union : applying alternative equity rules to a CGE-framework
Schmidt, Tobias F. N.; Koschel, Henrike - 1998
The objective of this paper is to present different equity rules that can be applied to the initial allocation of … being ex ante favoured with respect to the initial allocation of permits might not hold ex post, i.e. when trade of permits …-to-pay allocation: The negative impact on the economic perfomance of the big economies leads to a drop of export demand in the smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441162
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Unemployment and labor reallocation in Europe
Hogrefe, Jan; Sachs, Andreas - 2014
We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected European economies. Our measure of sectoral labor reallocation is adjusted for aggregate influences and the remaining variation is linked to unemployment in country specific...
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Assessing emission allocation in Europe : an interactive simulation approach
Böhringer, Christoph (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002110260
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Mission impossible!? : On the harmonization of national allocation plans under the EU emissions trading directive
Böhringer, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001945521
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The European Commission and EUA prices : a high-frequency analysis of the EC's decisions on second NAPs
Rotfuß, Waldemar; Conrad, Christian; Rittler, Daniel - 2009
National Allocation Plans (NAPs) is not instantaneous, but takes up to six hours after the decision announcement. -- EU ETS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875267
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Public interest vs. interest groups : allowance allocation in the EU emissions trading scheme
Anger, Niels (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A … a cross-section of German firms, but also shows that the political-economy determinants of permit allocation depend on … allocation process. …
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