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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Reducing air pollution is a major policy challenge, especially in densely populated urban areas where human exposure to emissions is considerable. This paper develops and examines a series of scenarios for the evolution of transport-related emissions in the area of Santiago, Chile. The analysis...
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Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … findings highlight that alleviating commuting costs does not uniformly boost women's labor participation, as gender roles and …
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Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in developing countries. This … paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India to analyze factors that affect the decision of … concentration of secondary sector jobs are more likely to have commuting workers. Regional rural and urban unemployment rates and …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the environmental impacts of a regional economy (Aragon, Spain) by way of its atmospheric emissions. Our starting point is the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix with Environmental Accounts for this region. We calculated environmental indicators...
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