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Recent research has repeatedly demonstrated that well-being typically evinces precipitous deterioration close to the end of life. However, the determinants of individual differences in these terminal declines are not well understood. In this study, we examine the role of perceived personal control as a potential buffer against steep terminal declines in well-being. We applied single- and multiphase ...
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Psychology and Aging
29 (2014), 3, S. 612-625
| Denis Gerstorf, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram, Frank J. Infurna, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular, single individuals and those with lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking initiation. Job loss increases body weight ...
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Economica
81 (2014), 324, S. 626-648
| Jan Marcus
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The restructuring of the allocation of governmental competencies in France has increased the importance of subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. We analyse the efficiency of public spending on the intermediate government level for the 96 départements in metropolitan France in 2008. Spending efficiency is measured using Data Envelopment Analysis. Results indicate significant room ...
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Local Government Studies
40 (2014), 5, S. 766-790
| Stefan Seifert, Maria Nieswand
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Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from 12 countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four- to five-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative income has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of poor material conditions, such as ...
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Social Science & Medicine
116 (2014), S. 202-210
| Maja Adena, Michal Myck
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Der Beitrag widmet sich der Beschreibung interethnischer Freundschaften zwischen Zuwanderern, ihren Nachkommen und der Mehrheitsbevölkerung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Das Augenmerk richtet sich auf die zwischen verschiedenen Migrantengruppen und Generationen bestehenden Unterschiede in den Beziehungsmustern sowie auf die Bedingungen ihrer Entstehung. Die Aufnahme interethnischer Kontakte wird ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
66 (2014), 3, 445-458
| Diana Schacht, Cornelia Kristen, Ingrid Tucci
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Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, this article analyses the effects of workplace training in Germany on subjective job security. Using fixed-effects models, this article tests whether workplace training has positive effects on perceived job security, and if so, whether the returns are of a short- or long-term nature. The results confirm a positive effect of workplace training ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
24 (2014), 4, S. 337-350
| Bettina Kohlrausch, Anika Rasner
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Assessing and quantifying the impacts of technological, economic, and policy shifts in the global energy system require large-scale numerical models. We propose a dynamic multi-fuel market equilibrium model that combines endogenous fuel substitution within demand sectors and in power generation, detailed infrastructure capacity constraints and investment, as well as strategic behaviour and market power ...
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Energy
75 (2014), S. 483-500
| Daniel Huppmann, Ruud Egging
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Expenditures devoted to research and development (R&D) are scarce and thus need to be used as efficiently as possible given the financial constraints countries are facing. This article assesses the relative efficiency of R&D expenditures for 26 OECD member countries and two nonmember countries. As countries differ in their national innovation systems and states of economic development and industrialization, ...
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Applied Economics
46 (2014), 30, S. 3750-3762
| Astrid Cullmann, Petra Zloczysti
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The increasing utilization of renewable energy sources (RES) is a major energy policy strategy in many countries worldwide. Germany is a forerunner in the deployment of RES and has ambitious goals for the future. The support and use of renewables affects the economy: It creates business opportunities in sectors producing renewable energy facilities, but comes with costs related to supporting its deployment. ...
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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
40 (2014), S. 1070-1080
| Jürgen Blazejczak, Frauke G. Braun, Dietmar Edler, Wolf-Peter Schill
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To assess how capital stocks adapt to energy price changes, it is necessary to account for the impacts on different vintages of capital and to account separately for price-induced and autonomous improvements in the energy efficiency of capital stock. The results of econometric analysis for five manufacturing industries in 19 OECD countries between 1990 and 2005 indicate that higher energy prices resulted ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
68 (2014), 2, S. 340-356
| Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Karsten Neuhoff
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Our article contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflicts by focusing on a pixel-level analysis for North and South Sudan between 1997 and 2009. Temperature anomalies are found to strongly affect the risk of conflict, whereas the risk is expected to magnify in a range of 24–31% in the future under a median scenario. ...
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Journal of Economic Geography
15 (2015), 3, S. 649-671
| Jean-Francois Maystadt, Margherita Calderone, Liangzhi You
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The energiewende ("Energy Turnaround") in Germany will occur within the context of setting up Europe's internal electricity market. An important initial step will be to intensify regional cooperation between neighboring countries. We assert that the full benefits of regional cooperation will be realized by integrating Europe's market segments, e.g., real-time, day ahead, reserve markets and backup ...
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Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy
3 (2014), 2, S. 45-60
| Clemens Gerbaulet, Casimir Lorenz, Julia Rechlitz, Tim Hainbach
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We analyze distinctive investment scenarios for the integration of fluctuating renewables in the German power system. Using a combined model for dispatch, transmission, and investment, three different investment options are considered, including gas-fired power plants, pumped hydro storage, and transmission lines. We find that geographically optimized power plant investments dominate in the reference ...
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Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy
3 (2014), 2,S. 29-43
| Jonas Egerer, Wolf-Peter Schill
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In this paper we analyze the effects of the German nuclear phase out, focusing on the seven nuclear power plants affected by the March 2011 moratorium, and continuing through the final phase out of the last plant in 2022. We provide an ex-post assessment of model analyses on the impact of the nuclear moratorium presented by the modelling community, in 2011 or shortly after. These are then compared ...
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Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy
3 (2014), 2, S. 13-27
| Friedrich Kunz, Hannes Weigt
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The German government's multi-decade effort to transition to a low-carbon, renew-ables-based energy economy is now commonly known as "energiewende" ("energy transition"). The transition has four major objectives: increasing the share of renewables to at least 80% (in electricity) and 60% for total final energy consumption, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95% (basis: 1990), phasing out nuclear ...
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Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy
3 (2014), 2, S. 1-12
| Christian von Hirschhausen
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This paper analyses the relationship between traffic volume and maintenance costs, and derives estimates for the cost elasticity and the marginal maintenance cost for pricing decisions. Two types of multi-output cost functions were estimated: a translog form and a hybrid form with output variables transformed by Box–Cox metrics. The hybrid model performs statistically better and is the preferable model ...
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
48 (2014), 1, S. 15-33
| Heike Link
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The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that could happen through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we use a cross-section sample of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data Envelopment Analysis, to analyze the potential efficiency gains from hypothetical mergers between water utilities ...
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Journal of Productivity Analysis
44 (2015), 1, S. 97-114
| Michael Zschille
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Bank debt guarantees have traditionally been viewed as costless measures to prevent bank runs. However, as recent experiences in some European countries have demonstrated, guarantees may link the coordination problems of bank and sovereign creditors and induce a functional interdependence between the likelihoods of a government default and bank illiquidity. Employing a global-game approach, we model ...
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Journal of Banking & Finance
45 (2014), S. 321-337
| Philipp König, Kartik Anand, Frank Heinemann
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While some scholars interpret the frequently documented association between age and the strength of party identification as evidence of accumulated political learning, others stress the importance of critical life stages. Germany's turbulent last century, with its suspensions of democratic processes, provides the unique opportunity to empirically disentangle both effects and to also study the consequences ...
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Electoral Studies
33 (2014), S.90-101
| Martin Kroh
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I examine the effects of increasing amounts of fluctuating renewable energy on residual load, which is defined as the difference between actual power demand and the feed-in of non-dispatchable and inflexible generators. I draw on policy-relevant scenarios for Germany and make use of extensive sensitivity analyses. Whereas yearly renewable surplus energy is low in most scenarios analyzed, peak surplus ...
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Energy Policy
73 (2014), S. 65-79
| Wolf-Peter Schill