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Der Fall Nokia hat in der Öffentlichkeit Empörung hervorgerufen und die Frage des Für und Wider von Subventionen für private Unternehmen aufgeworfen. Sind Investitionsförderungen durch Subventionen sinnvolle Standortpolitik, oder werden nur Mitnahmeeffekte erzielt? Christa Thoben,...
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Migration ist eines der am heftigsten diskutierten Themen im Rahmen der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union. In den Medien und auch einigen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen finden sich eine Vielzahl von Prognosen hinsichtlich der Dimension der zu erwartenden Zuwanderungsströme, denen die...
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Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...
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This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to...
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Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
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In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wird die Durchführung arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen mit erheblichem personellen wie finanziellen Aufwand betrieben. Dennoch ist ein Erfolg dieser Maßnahmen keineswegs gesichert, und Ausmaß bzw. Existenz des tatsächlichen Effektes verbleiben in hohem...
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This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
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This paper estimates treatment effects of two active labor market policies - a training program and a wage subsidy scheme - on participants' employment probabilities. The analysis is based on unique data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey containing detailed and extensive...
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The question of whether two drugs – namely alcohol and tobacco – are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-drug policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
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