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We study a game in which two firms compete in quality to serve a market consisting of consumers with different initial consideration sets. If both firms invest below a certain threshold, they only compete for those consumers already aware of their existence. Above this threshold, a firm is visible to all and the highest investment attracts all consumers. On the one hand, the existence of initially ...
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International Journal of Industrial Organization
75 (2021), 102709, 19 S.
| Renaud Foucart, Jana Friedrichsen
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This paper is the first causal study using quasi-experimental methods to identify the effect of minimum wages on the reservation wages of non-workers. We exploit variation in regional exposure to the introduction of a high-impact minimum wage in Germany in 2015, combined with survey responses about wage acceptance thresholds of job seekers. Results show a 16% increase in reservation wages among non-employed ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
183 (2021), S. 397–419
| Alexandra Fedorets, Cortney Shupe
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Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power sector, as well as an aging coal-fired power plant fleet. Nevertheless, coal remains a major energy source in the North American energy markets. Supplementing EMF34 ...
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Energy Policy
149 (2021), 112097, 13 S.
| Christian Hauenstein, Franziska Holz
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We study the impact of different regulatory designs on the cost efficiency of operators providing a public service, exploiting data from the French transport industry. The distinctive feature of the study is that it considers regulatory regimes as endogenously determined choices, explained by economic, political, and institutional variables. Our approach leans on a positive analysis to study the determinants ...
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Journal of Regulatory Economics
59 (2021), S. 25-46
| Joanna Piechucka
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Labor markets in low- and middle-income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have been implemented to increase the formalization of firms and workers, including information campaigns, simplified registration procedures, reductions of payroll taxes, and interventions enforcing formalization. We compile a database of 170 impact estimates from 38 academic ...
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World Development
138 (2021), 105256, 19 S.
| Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing Joint Estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates), with contributions from a large network of experts. Evidence from mechanistic data suggests that exposure to long working hours may increase alcohol consumption and cause alcohol use disorder. In this paper, we ...
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Environment International
146 (2021), 106205, 26 S.
| Daniela V. Pachito, Frank Pega, Jelena Bakusic, Hannes Kröger ...
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Background: Some have hypothesized that the coronavirus crisis may result in a retraditionalization of behaviour. This paper examines this hypothesis by analyzing how the time fathers and mothers spent with their children changed during the first lockdown in the case of Germany.Methods: Data for this investigation come from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The outcome variable is the time spent on ...
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Demographic Research
44 (2021), Art. 4, S. 99-124
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sabine Zinn
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We investigate how indicators of dissatisfaction—worries about a variety of life domains such as health, the state of the economy, and immigration—change across time and age in Germany based on Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. As expected, contemporary world events influenced respondents’ worries. For example, worries about peace peaked in 2003, the year of the Iraq War; worries about both immigration ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
181 (2021), S. 332-343
| Julia M. Rohrer, Martin Bruemmer, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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This study sheds light on whether the provision of information on costs, financing options, and returns of college education results in higher application and college enrollment rates. Based on a behavioral intervention with more than 1,000 high school students in Germany, we provide evidence that the provision of such information increases college application and enrollment rates, in particular for ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), S. 524-549
| Frauke Peter, C.Katharina Spiess, Vaishali Zambre
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This study investigates how precarious employment throughout the life course affects the fertility behavior of men and women in Germany, and how risk attitudes moderate exposure to objectively given uncertainty. Analyzing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study from 1990 to 2015, I find that men and women have become quite similar in their fertility behavior: Stable employment accelerates ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
47 (2021), 100402, 14 S.
| Christian Schmitt