Germany has committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions by 25 percent in 2005 as compared to 1990 emission levels. To achieve this goal, the government has recently launched an environmental tax reform…
Fixed-term labour contracts were liberalised in Germany in order to raise the flexibility of the labour market. However, empirical studies using industry-level data find no significant effect of FTCs on…
A decade after the Climate Change Convention from Rio in 1992 the developed world - excluding the U.S. - is likely to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which will impose legally binding greenhouse gas emission…