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Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland ist seit Jahren vorrangig auf die schnelle Wiedereingliederung von Arbeitslosen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung sog. Problemgruppen ausgerichtet. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, welche Maßnahmen wie gut geeignet sind, dieses Ziel mikro- und...
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The current obesity crisis in the United States is generating numerous alternative policy options for combating the problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages. This literature started out within a very simple...
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This paper analyzes the economic effects of environmental taxes on chemical fertilizer in producing rice. A charge of 10 percent tax on nitrogen fertilizer leads to a reduction in fertilizer use of 1.5 percent without changing rice yield, but the farm income is reduced by 0.6 percent. The tax...
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We model EU countries? bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst ?new? EU countries typically have lower ratings than...
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