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Increasing work incentives for people with low income is a common topic in the policy debate across European countries. The 'Mini-Job' reform in Germany had a similar motivation. We carry out an ex-post evaluation to identify the short-run effects of this reform. Our identification strategy uses an exogenous variation in the interview months in the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which allows us ...
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Applied Economics
42 (2010), 19, S. 2475-2489
| Marco Caliendo, Katharina Wrohlich
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We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including marginal employment, i.e. low-paying jobs with only a few working hours and partially exempted from employee's social security contributions. Using a new panel data set for Germany, the model is estimated both for the number of workers and total working hours. For unskilled and skilled ...
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Applied Economics Letters
17 (2010), 12, S. 1177-1182
| Ronny Freier, Viktor Steiner
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We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.
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Health Economics
19 (2010), 11, S. 1377-1384
| Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
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In the last decade biofuel production has been driven by governmental policies. This article reviews the national strategy plans of the world's leading producers. Particular attention is dedicated to blending targets, support schemes and feedstock use. Individual country profiles are grouped by continent and include North America (Canada and the US), South America (Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia), ...
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Energy Policy
38 (2010), 11, S. 6977-6988
| Giovanni Sorda, Martin Banse, Claudia Kemfert
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Considering the increasing attention on efficient use of energy, it becomes vitally important to understand the energy-related behavior of households. This article presents empirical evidence on the determinants of the space heating technology applied by a household. Three sets of variables are examined as potential influences - building, socio-economic, and regional characteristics. To highlight both ...
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Energy Policy
38 (2010), 10, S. 5493-5503
| Frauke G. Braun
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We apply a merchant transmission model to the trilateral market coupling (TLC) arrangement among the Netherlands, Belgium and France as an example, and note that it could further be applied to other market splitting or coupling of Europe's different national power markets. In this merchant framework the system operator allocates financial transmission rights (FTRs) to investors in transmission expansion ...
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Energy
35 (2010), 10, S. 4107-4115
| Tarjei Kristiansen, Juan Rosellón
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We provide the description, mathematical formulation and illustrative results of the World Gas Model, a multi-period complementarity model for the global natural gas market with explicit consideration of market power in the upstream market. Market players include producers, traders, pipeline and storage operators, LNG (liquefied natural gas) liquefiers and regasifiers as well as marketers. The model ...
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Energy
35 (2010), 10, S. 4016-4029
| Ruud Egging, Franziska Holz, Steven A. Gabriel
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Travel demand models typically use mainly objective modal attributes as explanatory variables. Nevertheless, it has been well known for many years that attitudes and perceptions also influence users' behaviour. The use of hybrid discrete choice models constitutes a good alternative to incorporate the effect of subjective factors. We estimated hybrid models in a short-survey panel context for data among ...
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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
44 (2010), 9, S. 744-753
| M. F. Yánez, S. Raveau, J. de D. Ortúzar
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Global liquidity expansion has been very dynamic since 2001. Contrary to conventional wisdom, high money growth rates have not coincided with a concurrent rise in goods prices. At the same time, however, asset prices have increased sharply, significantly outpacing the subdued development in consumer prices. We investigate the interactions between money and goods and asset prices at the global level. ...
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Journal of Banking & Finance
34 (2010), 8, S. 1933-1945
| Ansgar Belke, Walter Orth, Ralph Setzer
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Average market prices for intermittent generation technologies are lower than for conventional generation. This has a technical reason but can be exaggerated in the presence of market power. When there is much wind smaller amounts of conventional generation technologies are required, and prices are lower, while at times of little wind prices are higher. This effect reflects the value of different generation ...
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Energy Policy
38 (2010), 7, S. 3198-3210
| Paul Twomey, Karsten Neuhoff