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The study investigates whether sickness absence is stratified by job level - understood as the authority and autonomy a worker holds – beyond the association with education, income, and occupation. A second objective is to establish the moderating role of gender and occupational gender composition on this stratification of sickness absence. Four competing hypotheses are developed that predict different ...
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Social Science & Medicine
186 (2017), S. 1-9
| Hannes Kröger
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Crowding on public transport (PT) is a major issue for commuters around the world. Nevertheless, economists have rarely investigated the causes of crowding discomfort. Furthermore, most evidence on the costs of PT crowding is based on trade-offs between crowding, travel time and money. First, this paper assesses discomfort with PT crowding at various density levels across heterogeneous individuals ...
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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
100 (2017), S. 215-227
| Luke Haywood, Martin Koning, Guillaume Monchambert
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We revisit Ball and Romer’s (1990) canonical model of price setting with menu costs that exhibits multiple equilibria. We show that changes to firms’ markups move nominal and real rigidities in opposite directions. Using game-theoretic tools to derive a unique equilibrium, we find that accounting for agents’ endogenous adjustment of price expectations further weakens the link between real and nominal ...
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Economics Letters
156 (2017), S. 129-132
| Philipp König, Alexander Meyer-Gohde
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We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007–2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%. This significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have greater market power because customers are less willing to switch, is only 50%, it increases to 70% in the competitive ...
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European Economic Review
98 (2017), S. 354-372
| Tomaso Duso, Florian Szücs
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Enriched environments elicit brain plasticity in animals. In humans it is unclear which environment is enriching. Living in a city has been associated with increased amygdala activity in a stress paradigm, and being brought up in a city with increased pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC) activity. We set out to identify geographical characteristics that constitute an enriched environment affecting ...
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Scientific Reports
7 (2017), 11920, 8 S.
| Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel, Henry Wüstemann, Sandra Düzel, Peter Eibich, Simone Kühn
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This paper analyses whether exporting firms are less CO2 emission-intensive than non-exporting competitors. It exploits a novel and unique dataset for Germany, a major exporting country. Due to the direct link between CO2 emissions and fuels consumed, we argue that it is necessary to employ a production function framework to consistently analyse CO2 emission intensity. We show that such an approach ...
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European Economic Review
98 (2017), S. 373-391
| Philipp M. Richter, Alexander Schiersch
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Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student performance. However, treatment effects ...
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Labour Economics
47 (2017), S. 15-34
| Mathias Huebener, Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus
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Well-being (life satisfaction or happiness) is a latent variable that is impossible to observe directly. Moreover, it does not have a unit of measurement. Hence, survey questionnaires usually ask people to rate their well-being in different domains. The common practice of comparing well-being by means of averages or linear regressions ignores the fact that well-being is an ordinal variable. Since data ...
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European Economic Review
92 (2017), S. 337-358
| Carsten Schröder, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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Constrained transmission capacity in electricity networks may give generators the possibility to game the market by specifically causing congestion and thereby appropriating excessive rents. Investment in network capacity can ameliorate such behavior by reducing the potential for strategic behavior. However, modeling Nash equilibria between generators, which explicitly account for their impact on the ...
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Networks and Spatial Economics
17 (2017), 2, S. 611-644
| Alexander Zerrahn, Daniel Huppmann
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Is it possible to compress instruction time into fewer school years without lowering education levels? A fundamental reform in Germany reduced the length of academic track schooling by one year, while increasing instruction hours in the remaining school years to provide students with a very similar core curriculum and the same overall instruction time. Using aggregated administrative data on the full ...
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Economics of Education Review
58 (2017), S. 1-14
| Mathias Hübener, Jan Marcus