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Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks, productivity and preferences, and the financial incentives of the German public insurance schemes. The estimation uses data on male employees and an extended expectation-maximization ...
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Journal of Health Economics
65 (2019), S. 227-245
| Daniel Kemptner
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The European Union has set out to reduce the carbon intensity of its electricity generation substantially, as defined in the European Roadmap 2050. This paper analyses the impact of foresight towards decarbonization targets on the investment decisions in the European electricity sector using a specific model developed by the authors called dynELMOD. Incorporating the climate targets makes the investment ...
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Renewable Energy
141 (2019), S. 973-987
| Clemens Gerbaulet, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert, Casimir Lorenz, Pao-Yu Oei
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Before 2006, large firms in Germany were obliged to pay for the generous maternity protection of female employees, such that firms’ expected costs depended on employees’ gender and age. From 2006 onward, all firms paid for maternity protection by contributing to the statutory health insurance system, where the contribution depends only on the number of employees and their wages and is thus independent ...
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Labour Economics
59 (2019), S. 164-172
| Jonas Jessen, Robin Jessen, Jochen Kluve
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Advances in horizontal drilling have significantly increased US oil and gas production, but it is not clear whether the industry is viable if oil prices continue to be low. Researchers now estimate the break-even price for oil and gas from tight formations and analyse the factors that affect investment in drilling rigs.
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Nature Energy
4 (2019), S. 263-264
| Dawud Ansari
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Swarm grids are an emerging approach to electrification in the Global South that interconnects individual household generation and storage to a small electricity network to make full use of existing generation capacities. Using a simulation tool for demand, weather, and power flows, we analyse the potential of an AC swarm grid for a large pre-electrified village in rural Yemen. Service quality and ...
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
108 (2019), S. 289-302
| Martha M. Hoffmann, Dawud Ansari
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We examine the reemployment earnings of workers reemployed by a former employer (known as recall) across different occupations. We first ask whether recalls represent a flexibilization strategy that mitigates adverse unemployment effects on workers’ earnings. And second, whether there are any differences in post-unemployment earnings of recalled workers across different occupations. The article contributes ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
60 (2019), S. 39-51
| Susanne Edler, Peter Jacobebbinghaus, Stefan Liebig
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We analyze whether mothers’ parental leave decisions depend on their coworkers’ decisions. The identification of peer effects bears various challenges due to correlated characteristics within social groups. We therefore exploit quasi-random variation in the costs of parental leave induced by a policy reform in Germany. The reform encourages mothers to remain at home during the first year following ...
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Labour Economics
57 (2019), S. 146-163
| Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
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Growing prosperity among its population and an inherent increasing demand for energy complicate China’s target of combating climate change, while maintaining its economic growth. This paper, therefore, describes three potential decarbonization pathways to analyze different effects for the electricity, transport, heating, and industrial sectors until 2050. Using an enhanced version of the multi-sectoral, ...
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Applied Energy
255 (2019), 113820, 17 S.
| Thorsten Burandt, Bobby Xiong, Konstantin Löffler, Pao-Yu Oei
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Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden-action trust game with pre-play communication. We replicate previous results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates, but this does not extend to teams. While teams promise to cooperate at the same rate as individuals, they consistently renege on those promises. Additional treatments begin to explore the basis for team behavior. ...
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Games and Economic Behavior
117 (2019), S. 420-432
| Kirby Nielsen, Puja Bhattacharya, John H. Kagel, Arjun Sengupta
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To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. Using a unique panel dataset of monthly waste generation in Italian municipalities, we employ the synthetic control method, which allows us to account for possible time-varying ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
96 (2019), S. 274-285
| Matheus Bueno, Marica Valente