Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profitability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). On the basis of...

Im September 2016 konnte das Reallabor Asylsuchende im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in zwei Gemeinschaftsunterkünften eine Befragung bei Geflüchteten durchführen. Insgesamt nahmen 370 Personen an der Befragung teil, darunter überwiegend junge Männer aus Afrika, Vorder- und Zentralasien. Die Befragung...

Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...

Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...

This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the distributional effects of subsidies for the purchase of alternative vehicles based on an extended version of Hausman's exact consumer surplus. Consistently with economic theory, we estimate changes in household welfare, inequality and...

Im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis finden sich vielfältige Akteure und Netzwerke, die die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Geflüchteten unterstützen. Auch wenn die konkreten Maßnahmen zur Arbeitsmarktintegration, die sich hier als erfolgreich erwiesen haben, kommunal spezifisch sind, so zeigen die Teilstudien...

Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality?...

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profitability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). On the basis of...