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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...
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Ambiguous protection
Gruendler, Klaus; Hillman, Arye L. - 2021
Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...
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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008
We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …
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The impact of market regulations on intra-European real exchange rates
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2013
We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors and employment protection tend to inflate the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691682
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Pandemic consumption
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Kornejew, Martin - 2023
This paper examines how households adjusted their consumption behavior in response to COVID-19 infection risk during the early phase of the pandemic. We use a monthly consumption survey specifically designed by the German Statistical Office covering the second wave of COVID-19 infections from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252555
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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010
important dimension to the analysis of the political economy of environmental regulation, especially for an open economy. When … environmental stringency and the regulation of trade openness. In this context, we show how the eco-friendliness ranking of … weak and strong democracies, when costs lie in an intermediate range. -- pollution ; environmental regulation ; private …
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Fat city : the relationship between urban sprawl and obesity
Eid, Jean; Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego; Puga, Diego - 2006
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Statistical vs. identified lives in benefit-cost analys
Hammitt, James K. (contributor); Treich, Nicolas (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496496
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The trend of BMI values among US adults
Komlos, John; Brabek, Marek - 2010
Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. Object: To estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by...
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Do they know what's at risk? : health risk perception among the Obese
Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2012
The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of disease risk perceptions among obese individuals. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel (ALP) to individual's...
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