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This article provides an overview of the natural gas industry, which we view as a bridge fuel toward a lower-carbon energy system in many countries and regions around the world. Based on a review of the literature, an econometric analysis of natural gas prices and contracts, and the authors’ experience with the natural gas industry, this introductory article to the symposium on the Prospects for Natural ...
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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
9 (2015), Iss. 1, 64-84
| Anne Neumann, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Health care is an important sector in all European countries showing a high dynamic in the past. In 2011 about 23 million persons were employed in health and social care, that is to say 10.4% of total employment. The share of health care expenditures in GDP was 10%. The health care workforce increased despite the overall trend of declining employment also during the economic crisis. The high dynamic ...
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Zdrowie Publiczne i Zarządzanie
11 (2013), 2, S. 107-124
| Erika Schulz
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Objective To quantify the association between long working hours and alcohol use.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data.Data sources A systematic search of PubMed and Embase databases in April 2014 for published studies, supplemented with manual searches. Unpublished individual participant data were obtained from 27 additional studies.Review ...
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The BMJ
350 (2015), g7772, S. 1-14
| Marianna Virtanen, Markus Jokela, Solja T. Nyberg, Ida E. H. Madsen, Tea Lallukka, Kirsi Ahola, Lars Alfredsson, G. David Batty, Jakob B. Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Annalisa Casini, Els Clays, Dirk De Bacquer, Nico Dragano, Raimund Erbel, Jane E. Ferrie, Eleonor I. Fransson, Mark Hamer, Katriina Heikkilä, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, France Kittel, Anders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Karl-Heinz Ladwig, Thorsten Lunau, Martin L. Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Jan H. Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Reiner Rugulies, Paula Salo, Jürgen Schupp, Johannes Siegrist, Archana Singh-Manoux, Andrew Steptoe, Sakari B. Suominen, Töres Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Gert G. Wagner, Peter J. M. Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Mika Kivimäki
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Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly ...
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PLOS One
10 (2015), 2, e0118053
| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing
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It is well-known that not all the variables affecting decisions in a discrete choice situation are objective characteristics of the alternatives. Some of them are associated with difficult to measure attributes which may be represented as latent variables. Since this type of variables cannot be directly observed by the analyst, they must be estimated through a special model (typically a MIMIC model), ...
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Transportmetrica A
10 (2014), No. 1, S. 74-88
| Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke, Juan de Dios Ortúzar
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This study analyses differences in individual-level working poverty determinants between Germany and the UK. These differences are linked to institutional patterns at the country level. Here, we observe that the two countries differ especially in bargaining centralisation, employment protection legislation and family policy. At the same time, the levels of decommodification and labour market regulation ...
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European Societies
17 (2015), No. 1, S. 27-46
| Marco Giesselmann
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How sociocultural contexts shape individual functioning is of prime interest for psychological inquiry. Secular increases favoring later-born cohorts in fluid intelligence measures are widely documented for young adults. In the current study, we quantified such trends in old age using data from highly comparable participants living in a narrowly defined geographical area and examined whether these ...
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Psychology and Aging
30 (2015), 2, S. 301-310
| Denis Gerstorf, Gizem Hülür, Johanna Drewelies, Peter Eibich, Sandra Düzel, Ilja Demuth, Paolo Ghisletta, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger
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In survey research, a consensus has grown regarding the effectiveness of incentives encouraging survey participation across different survey modes and target populations. Most of this research has been based on surveys from the US, whereas few studies have provided evidence that theseresults can be generalized to other contexts. This paper is the first to present comprehensive information concerning ...
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The Public Opinion Quarterly
79 (2015), 3, S. 740-768
| Klaus Pforr, Michael Blohm, Annelies G. Blom, Barbara Erdel, Barbara Felderer, Mathis Fräßdorf, Kristin Hajek, Susanne Helmschrott, Corinna Kleinert, Achim Koch, Ulrich Krieger, Martin Kroh, Silke Martin, Denise Saßenroth, Claudia Schmiedeberg, Eva-Maria Trüdinger, Beatrice Rammstedt
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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. We apply an exact decomposition framework as outlined in Wodon and Yitzhaki (Econ Bull 4:1–8, 2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the database. The long time horizon of our ...
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Journal of Economic Inequality
12 (2014), Iss. 3, S. 393-409
| Carsten Schröder, Yolanda Golan, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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In light of the recent interest in using longitudinal panel data to study personality development, it is important to know if personality traits are related to panel attrition. We analyse the effects of personality on panel drop-out separately for an ‘older’ subsample (started in 1984), a relatively ‘young’ subsample (started in 2000), and a ‘new’ subsample (started in 2009) of the German Socio-Economic ...
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Journal of Research in Personality
53 (2014), S. 31-35
| David Richter, John Körtner, Denise Saßenroth
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We analyze the transmission of the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis to 415 country-industry equity portfolios. We use a factor model to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings and residual correlations as indicative ofcontagion. While we find evidence of contagion from the United States and the global financial sector, the effects are small. By contrast, there has been ...
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The Journal of Finance
69 (2014), No.6, S. 2597-2649
| Geert Bekaert, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Arnaud Mehl
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We employ German social security records to investigate intragenerational lifetime earnings inequality and mobility of yearly earnings for 35 cohorts, starting with the birth year 1935. Our main result is a striking secular rise of intragenerational inequality in lifetime earnings: West German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 85% more lifetime inequality than their fathers. ...
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Journal of Labor Economics
33 (2015) No. 1, S. 171-208
| Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo, Holger Lüthen
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This study assesses whether the international monetary system is already tri-polar by testing what we call China's ‘dominance hypothesis’, i.e. whether the renminbi already influences exchange rate and monetary policies strongly in Asia, a direct reference to the old ‘German dominance hypothesis’ which ascribed to the German mark a dominant role in Europe in the 1980s. Using a global factor model of ...
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The Economic Journal
124 (2014), Iss. 581, S. 1343-1370
| Marcel Fratzscher, Arnaud Mehl
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Distributed energy resources allow for new business models that have the potential to substantially change today's power system functioning paradigm. In particular, these changes pose challenges for distribution system operators (DSOs) and their regulation alike. This article sheds light on missing aspects in current regulation, recognizing DSOs as regulated monopolies, but also as key players along ...
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Utilities Policy
31 (2014), S. 229-237
| Sophia Rüster, Sebastian Schwenen, Carlos Batlle, Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga
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Taking a quarter-century to build Europe's internal market for electricity may seem an incredibly long journey. The aim of achieving a Europe-wide market might be reached, but it has involved – and continues to involve – a process subject to many adverse dynamics. The EU internal market may derail greatly in the coming years from the effects of a massive push for renewables, as well as a growing decentralization ...
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Utilities Policy
31 (2014), S. 221-228
| Jean-Michel Glachant, Sophia Rüster
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Gemäß der Social Isolation Hypothesis ist davon auszugehen, dass sozial isolierte Personen weniger bereit sind an Umfragen teilzunehmen. Auf dieser Grundlage wird argumentiert, dass vor allem subjektiv empfundene soziale Isolation, wie sie im psychologischen Konzept von Einsamkeit berücksichtigt wird, die Teilnahmebereitschaft in Umfragen beeinflusst und dass Einsamkeit von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften ...
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Methoden, Daten, Analysen
6 (2012), 1, S. 21-44
| Denise Saßenroth
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This paper deals with the question of whether the capability of car drivers to estimate the cost of a new hypothetical, highly differentiated congestion charge influences their decision to change travel behaviour. The analysis makes use of an integrated choice and latent variable model (ICLV) which merges classic choice models with the structural equation approach (SEM) for latent variables. This hybrid ...
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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
71 (2015), S. 96-109
| Heike Link
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In the following, we present the earliest input-output table for Germany: It covers 40 economic branches, five final demand categories and five primary inputs. The symmetric table for 1936 is completely based on original statistical data and does not rely on separate supply and use tables. The core of our endeavour is based on the German industrial census of 1936. Originally, this census and its forerunner ...
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Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; 55, 2
55 (2014), 2, S. 187–298
| Rainer Fremdlig, Reiner Stäglin
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As current policy frameworks are expiring soon, the EU is revisiting its energy technology policy for the post-2020 horizon. The main long-run objective for energy technology policy is to foster the achievement of ambitious EU goals for decarbonisation. We discuss how European energy technology policy towards 2050 can be effective despite: 1) uncertain carbon prices; 2) uncertain technological change; ...
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International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy
9 (2013), 2, S. 160-174
| Sophia Rüster, Sebastian Schwenen, Matthias Finger, Jean-Michel Glachant
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The benefits of dual apprenticeship programs are usually discussed in the context of reducing structural unemployment rates, especially among the young. Related to this, the long-run benefits of dual apprenticeship programs are extensively analyzed in the literature. However, empirical evidence regarding the short-run effects of the business cycle on the number of apprenticeships is scarce. In this ...
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Journal of Labor Research
35 (2014), Iss. 4, 412-422
| Guido Baldi, Imke Brüggemann-Borck, Thore Schlaak