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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence
Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021
This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between … period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on country/industry level data for 21 EU countries on employment, trade in … technology is analysed by taking into account both the technological intensity of offshoring industries and that of their GVC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692280
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Industry-level labour demand elasticities across the Eurozone : will there be any gain after the pain of internal devaluation?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2014
data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry estimates of the labour demand function. The values of our estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370168
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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations : is the EU right?
Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012
Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best policy, given that auctioning with border adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687241
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The green industrial revolution : investment pathways to decarbonize the industrial sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently promote industry decarbonization using the instruments at their disposal … frameworks to study investment pathways consistent with a net zero industry transformation. We find that a mix of measures … industry with EUR 78.4bn until 2050 - followed by iron & steel (EUR55.4bn) and cement (EUR37.6bn). The achievable emission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295121
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730274
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Out of sight, out of mind? : the impact of natural disasters on pregnancy outcomes
Simeonova, Emilia - 2009
The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing temperatures, there is a potentially more harmful one: through an increase in extreme weather incidents. We offer the first evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888100
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The relationship between stature and insolation : evidence from soldiers and prisoners
Carson, Scott Alan - 2009
Nineteenth century white US statures varied with nutrition, disease exposure, and the physical environment. An additional explanation for stature growth is vitamin D production. Vitamin D is produced internally by the synthesis of cholesterol and sunlight in the epidermis. However, studies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898840
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Do taboo trade-offs explain the difficulty in valuing health and social interventions?
Shiell, Alan; Sperber, Daniel; Porat, Carly - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 6, pp. 935-939
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936949
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Controlling for endogeneity in the health-socioeconomic status relationship of the near retired
Bender, Keith A.; Theodossiou, Ioannis - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 6, pp. 977-987
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936961
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The trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2010
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994174