This book contributes to clarify the conditions of jobs with shorter working hours and reckons the potential for increasing part-time employment in Germany. Two crucial obstacles of part-time employment are…
This special issue's aim is to first provide ample and reliable empirical evidence on genuine energy savings and their specific cost resulting from conservation programs implemented all around the world.…
Which countries offer the best markets for renewables? Are present support policies sufficient to meet the EU renewables target for 2010? Which renewable technologies will have the largest growth in the present…
This paper compares predictions obtained for the analysis of tax reforms with collective and unitary models of household labour supply and consumption behaviour. We simulate real world microdata by means of a…
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…
