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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020
In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
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The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality
Helm, Ines; Koch, Nikolas; Rohlf, Alexander - 2023
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining …
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Can social protection reduce environmental damages?
Garg, Teevrat; McCord, Gordon C.; Montfort, Aleister - 2020
Why do damages from changes in environmental quality differ across and within countries? Causal investigation of this question has been challenging because differences may stem from heterogeneity in cumulative exposure or differences in socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the...
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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Labor in the boardroom
Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Heining, Jörg - 2019
study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
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Discretionary measures of active labor market policy : the German employment promotion reform in perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on … the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …
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The long awaited reform of the German Works Constitution Act
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002
of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a …
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A conceptual framework for the evaluation of comprehensive labor market policy reforms in Germany
Fertig, Michael (contributor); Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Do financial incentives promote the employment of the disabled?
Verick, Sher (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Reforming German labor market institutions : a dual path to flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …
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