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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
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The greener, the higher : labor demand of automotive firms during the green transformation
Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024
We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...
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Impacts of droughts and floods on agricultural productivity in New Zealand as measured from space
Blanc, Elodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
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Democratic tipping points
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809938
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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011367
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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001
proclamations of a classlesssociety, there were substantial differences in physical stature in East-Germany.Social differences in …
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists
Rauber, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301129
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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013
debt crisis has prompted a fundamental re-evaluation of public debt sustainability and the looming threat of sovereign debt … fiscal sustainability for the period from 1950 to 2010. This evidence leads to the conclusion that Germany's public debt is … default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany …
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