We assess the incorporation of wind or solar resource quality into renewable auction design as a means to geographically diversify renewable energy production and to reduce costs to consumers by reducing scarcity rents at sites with high resource quality. With a stylized auction model, we model the trade-off between production costs and consumer costs. After exploring the influence of the heterogeneity ...
Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker’s wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker’s hourly wage in a two-stage least squares estimation based on nationally representative panel data (N = 1,955 ...
Dieser Beitrag erschien bei Zeit Online. Mehr und unkompliziertere Fachkräfteeinwanderung ist das eine. Aber es gibt auch auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt noch viel Potenzial – Zeit, dass wir es nutzen. Innenministerin Nancy Faeser und Arbeitsminister Hubertus Heil haben diese Woche eine wichtige Initiative zur Reform des Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetzes gestartet, um den massiven Arbeitskräftemangel ...
