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The conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2014 led Western countries and Russia to impose economic sanctions on each other, including the euro zone members. The paper investigates the impact of the sanctions on the real side of the economies of Russia and the euro area. The effects of sanctions are analyzed with a structural vector autoregression. To pin down the effect we are interested ...
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Baltic Journal of Economics
19 (2019), 1, S. 39-51
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Aleksei Netsunajev
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This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment.Wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally accruing economic payoffs only, but potentially also by other factors, such as emphasis on environmentally friendly energy production and its associated benefits. Thus, the local economic impacts of wind power deployment are ambiguous.We empirically test the existence ...
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Finanzarchiv
75 (2019), 1, S. 59-92
| Nils May, Øivind A. Nilsen
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Differences in mortality between groups with different socioeconomic positions (SEP) are well-established, but the relative contribution of different SEP measures is unclear. This study compares the correlation between three SEP dimensions and mortality, and investigates differences between gender and age groups (35–59 vs. 60–84). We use an 11% random sample with an 80% oversample of deaths from the ...
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Social Indicators Research
145 (2019), 1, S. 349-365
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen
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The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly, their performance deteriorated in recent years, despite the modest recovery in advanced economies. The higher divergence of business cycles is closely linked to the Chinese economy. During the crisis, the Chinese fiscal stimulus prevented an abrupt decline in GDP growth ...
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The World Economy
42 (2019), 1, S. 122-142
| Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger, Irina Dubova
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Continued global action on climate change has major consequences for fossil fuel markets, especially for coal as the most carbon-intensive fuel. This article summarizes current market developments in the most important coal-producing and coal-consuming countries, resulting in a critical qualitative assessment of prospects for future coal exports. Colombia, as the world’s fourth largest exporter, is ...
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Climate Policy
19 (2019), 1, S. 73-91
| Pao-Yu Oei, Roman Mendelevitch
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Based on highly comparable data from the OECD PIAAC Programme, this note analyzes the relationship between generalized trust and cognitive skills among 30 countries around the world. The results show that the strength and direction of the relationship is not a universal characteristic but varies substantially among countries worldwide. A detailed descriptive analysis of this variation provides evidence ...
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Economics Bulletin
39 (2019), 1, S. 200-206
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of profiles using the example of career ...
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Small Business Economics
53 (2019), 1, S. 1-20
| Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work–life conflict. The focus is on how childcare support affects the well-being, working time, and caring behaviour of mothers with young children. Since the mid-2000s and pushed by public policies, in Germany an increasing ...
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Oxford Economic Papers
71 (2019), 1, S. 95-118
| Verena Lauber, Johanna Storck
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This study investigates how the durations of childcare leaves taken by mothers and fathers in Germany relate to the gender division of housework and childcare after labour market return. It examines to what extent changes in economic resources because of leave take-up may account for adaptations in the division of domestic work of dual-earner couples. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...
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European Societies
21 (2019), 1, S. 158-180
| Pia S. Schober, Gundula Zoch
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Multilevel models with persons nested in countries are increasingly popular in cross-country research. Recently, social scientists have started to analyze data with a three-level structure: persons at level 1, nested in year-specific country samples at level 2, nested in countries at level 3. By using a country fixed-effects estimator, or an alternative equivalent specification in a random-effects ...
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Sociological Methodology
49 (2019), 1, S. 190-219
| Marco Giesselmann, Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran