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The Direct Effect of Obesity on Emotional Well-Being: Evidence from Mexico

Bargain, Olivier; Zeidan, Jinan - HAL - 2014

Obesity spreads more easily if is not perceived negatively. This may be the case among the poor, for whom fatness can be an external sign of wealth. We estimate the direct effect of overweight on emotional well-being in Mexico, a country facing the highest obesity rate in the world. Individual...

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META-CDM : Multimodal, Efficient Transportation in Airports and Collaborative Decision Making

Laplace, Isabelle; Marzuoli, Aude; Feron, Eric - HAL - 2014

Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transportation system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) for...

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How The Simplification of Work Can Degrade Safety: A Gas Company Case Study

Blazsin, Hortense; Guarnieri, Franck; Martin, Christophe - HAL - 2013

Work is focused on a gas company that wishes to develop a better understanding of its safety culture and identify potential enhancement opportunities. The hypothesis that emerged from an exploratory phase of work suggests that the corporate restructuring initiated four years ago, which has...

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Resilience of groundwater dependent farming systems in a global change context: conceptual framework and empirical study in Morocco

Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel; Castel, Auérlien; Faysse, Nicolas - HAL - 2013

This communication presents a framework to analyse the resilience of irrigated farms in Morrocco. It first presents a … conceptual framework to analyse resilience at the farm level. The framework is then applied to a sample of farmers which were … and plan actions needed to enhance their resilience, others would only call for State intervention or even consider …

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Multimodal, efficient transportation in airports and collaborative decision making

Marzuoli, Aude; Laplace, Isabelle; Féron, Éric - HAL - 2013

Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transport system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) for traffic flow and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820409

Resilience of groundwater dependent farming systems in a global change context: conceptual framework and empirical study in Morocco

Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel; Castel, Aurélien; Faysse, Nicolas - HAL - 2014

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EVI and its Use. Design of an Economic Vulnerability Index and its Use for International Development Policy

Guillaumont, Patrick - HAL - 2011

As an answer to a need expressed by the UN General Assembly an Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed, in particular...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year...

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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Brodeur, Abel; Flèche, Sarah - HAL - 2013

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...

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Valuing jobs via retirement: European evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Fawaz, Yarine - HAL - 2009

While much has been made of the value of employment relative to unemployment, much less is known about the value of work relative to retirement. We here use two European panel datasets to first show that psychological well-being (measured on the EURO-D and GHQ scales) barely changes on average...

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