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Many governments consider new nuclear power plants to promote decarbonization. On the one hand, dispatchable nuclear plants can complement fluctuating generation from wind and PV. On the other hand, escalating construction costs and times raise economic concerns. This paper investigates the economic threshold at which nuclear plants are an efficient decarbonization option. Building on an extensive ...
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Energy Strategy Reviews
60 (2025), 101782, 22 S.
| Leonard Göke, Alexander Wimmers, Christian von Hirschhausen
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We propose a novel method to detect and disentangle moderate and severe health shocks in a general population survey based on a data-driven classification of sickness absences and hospitalizations. Both types of shocks are widespread with an annual incidence of about 1.7%, which rises steeply with age. We estimate the effects of both shocks on labor market outcomes and find that severe shocks have ...
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Labour Economics
96 (2025), 102747, 13 S.
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes Koenig
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Due to recent conflicts and humanitarian issues, millions of people have sought asylum in countries in Europe. The influx of asylum seekers has sparked debates about the impacts of such migratory flows on resident populations. We study how the recent migration of these forcibly displaced people into Europe affects the mental health of the receiving country residents in Switzerland and Germany. We exploit ...
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Journal of Development Economics
178 (2025), 103579, 24 S.
| Prashant Bharadwaj, Daniel Graeber, Stephanie Khoury, Christian P.R. Schmid
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This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequalities in the transition to homeownership by parental social class. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (N = 13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers ...
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Social Science Research
129 (2025), 103190, 19 S.
| Jascha Dräger, Nora Müller, Klaus Pforr
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This paper explores the presence of an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) premium for firms operating in the energy, utilities, and basic materials sectors. Specifically, we examine the influence of ESG performance on firms’ cost of capital in both debt and equity markets. We apply a measure of the ex ante implied cost of equity and the cost of debt to a global sample of over 24,000 firm-year ...
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Utilities Policy
97 (2025), 102016, 15 S.
| Sindre Wilberg, Vibeke Kjellevoll, Franziska Holz, Anne Neumann
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This paper analyzes three key labor market trends – structural change, servitization, and skill-biased change – using German data from 1975 to 2017. Through a decomposition analysis, we discern their individual impacts on employment shifts, revealing their distinct roles in the German labor market’s evolution. Servitization and skill-biased change significantly influence employment growth alongside ...
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Labour Economics
97 (2025), 102778, 16 S.
| Dominik Boddin, Thilo Kroeger
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The ongoing expansion of wind and solar electricity generation alongside increasing electrification is leading to a considerable strain on transmission capacities and grid bottlenecks in the EU. Coping with this challenge requires increasing system flexibility, e.g. by exploiting the potential for demand-side flexibility. However, in the current market design, demand-side flexibility responds to zonal ...
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Energy Policy
207 (2025), 114808, 10 S.
| Karsten Neuhoff, Franziska Klaucke, Luis Olmos, Lisa Ryan, Silvia Vitiello, Anthony Papavasiliou, Konstantin Staschus
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Significant amounts of electricity consumed in air and water pumping make wastewater treatment energy-intensive. This study investigates the potential power system benefits of load shifting within these pumping processes. As a case study, the Irish power system and wastewater sector are studied by using an integrated modelling approach. The results show that demand flexibility within the wastewater ...
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Applied Energy
381 (2025), 125128, 19 S.
| Dana Kirchem, Recep Kaan Dereli, Muireann Á. Lynch, Eoin Casey
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Background The harmful mental health effects of perceived discrimination for migrant populations are well established. The potential buffering effect of regional-level social capital, however, has not previously been explored. Methods Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP; 2009–2018) we apply multilevel models to assess the effect of frequent or infrequent perceived discrimination on ...
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Social Science & Medicine
370 (2025), 117854, 13 S.
| Louise Biddle, Barbara Stacherl, Ellen Heidinger
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Aligned with the war in Ukraine, Russia has significantly withheld natural gas exports to Europe since 2021. As there are no EU-wide sanctions on imports of Russian natural gas, the Ukraine transit as well as imports via Turkey and LNG have remained active during 2022–24. However, the Russian-Ukrainian transit agreement expires at the end of 2024 and discussions about new sanctions on natural gas as ...
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Energy Strategy Reviews
58 (2025), 101646, 10 S.
| Lukas Barner, Franziska Holz, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert