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Improving energy efficiency is one of the three pillars of the European energy and climate targets for 2020 and has led to the introduction of several policy measures to promote energy efficiency. The paper analyzes the effectiveness of subsidies in increasing energy efficiency in residential dwellings. An empirical analysis is conducted in which the effectiveness of subsidies on the number of dwelling ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 527)
| Caroline Dieckhöner
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In:
Hanspeter Kriesi, Peter Farago, Martin Kohli, Milad Zarin-Nejadan ,
Contemporary Switzerland. Revisiting the Special Case
New York: Palgrave Macmillan
190-217
| Andreas Dieckmann, Ben Jann
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This paper analyses the impact of regional ethnic concentration on the language proficiency and language use of immigrants. It solves the endogeneity of immigrants’ location choices by exploiting a peculiar episode of the German immigration history: the exogenous placement of guest-workers after WWII, one of the largest guest-worker programs on record. The econometric approach accounts for several ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
131 (2016), 151-165
| Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman
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It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants’ interethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic concentration on social integration. The ...
In:
Review of International Economics
21 (2013), 2, 311–325
| Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman
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A large literature emphasizes the virtues of home ownership. This article illustrates that homeowners’ influence need not always be benign. Taking a first look at large vacant housing in East Germany, the article in part attributes vacant housing and its demolition to homeowners’ interest in keeping real estate prices up.
In:
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
12 (2011), 2, 132-150
| Kristof Dascher
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In many established democracies, partisan attachments play a central role in guiding citizens' attitudes as well as their political behaviour. Most importantly, partisanship has an effect on what party citizens vote for on Election Day. In general, highly politically sophisticated citizens are more likely to identify with a party compared to the less politically sophisticated. This article argues ...
In:
German Politics
27 (2017), 1, 44-65
| Ruth Dassonneville, Annika Grieb
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Party identification traditionally is seen as an important linkage mechanism, connecting voters to the party system. Previous analyses have suggested that the level of party identity is in decline in Germany, and this article first expands previous observations with more recent data. These suggest that the erosion of party identity continues up to the present time. An age–period–cohort analysis of ...
In:
German Politics
21 (2012), 2, 209-227
| Ruth Dassonneville, Marc Hooghe, Bram Vanhoutte
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The work of Russell Dalton has played a seminal role in the study of the relation between political sophistication and partisan dealignment. It has to be acknowledged furthermore that there is a consensus on the occurrence of a decline of partisanship in Germany. Using panel data as well as pooled cross-sectional observations, however, it is clear that generational replacement is not the sole driving ...
In:
German Politics
23 (2014), 1-2, 145-155
| Ruth Dassonneville, Marc Hooghe, Bram Vanhoutte
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Mannheim:
1993,
| Parsis Dastani, Thorsten Geib, Francois Laisney, Michael Lechner
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Mannheim:
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW),
1997,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 97-23)
| Parsis Dastani, Francois Laisney, Sophie Vouillaume