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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices
Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022
We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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Does anti-competitive regulation matter for productivity? : evidence from European firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, … - 2011
. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …
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Evaluating the impact of the post-2008 employment subsidy program in Turkey
Balkan, Binnur; Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Tumen, Semih - 2016
This paper investigates the employment effects of a targeted subsidy scheme implemented in Turkey following the 2008 crisis. The Turkish government started a subsidy program in 2008 to generate new employment for younger men and all women, which are the relatively disadvantaged groups in the...
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A review of the circular economy and its implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2015
Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
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Payment for ecosystem services from forests
Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...
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Economic status, air quality, and child health : evidence from inversion episodes
Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per-Olov; Nilsson, J. Peter - 2014
On normal days, the temperature decreases with altitude, allowing air pollutants to rise and disperse. During inversion episodes, a warmer air layer at higher altitude traps pollutants close to the ground. We show how readily available NASA satellite data on vertical temperature profiles can be...
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The effects of a green nudge on municipal solid waste: evidence from a clear bag policy
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Boulatoff, Catherine - 2020
We explore the power of behavioral economic insights to influence the level of households' recycling and Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) by examining the effectiveness of a green nudge, the adoption of a Clear Bag Policy that was implemented in 2015 in a mid-size urban municipality in Canada. Using...
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Air pollution quotas and the dynamics of internal skilled migration in Chinese cities
Yu, Bo; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa - 2020
prefectures, this regulation effect is twice as large in the smaller regulated prefectures. A possible mechanism could be that the …
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Environmental policy and gender health gap
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2023
Utilizing a nationally representative panel data of middle-aged and elder individuals from China, we assess the health impact of environmental policies, with special attention paid to gender disparities within their effects. This study utilizes thermal inversions to address the endogeneity of...
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …
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