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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015

This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...

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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaïd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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Energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in Middle East and North African countries

Arouri, Mohamed; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'henni, Hatem; … - 2012

This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...

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Importing air pollution? : evidence from China's plastic waste imports

Unfried, Kerstin; Wang, Feicheng - 2022

Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic …

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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001

Bengtsson, Tommy (contributor); Scott, Kirk (contributor) - 2008

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...

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Measuring richness and poverty : a micro data application to Europe and Germany

Peichl, Andreas (contributor); Schaefer, Thilo (contributor) - 2008

In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich persons' income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures to...

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Happiness and the human development index : Australia is not a paradox

Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

in place of the HDI. Indeed, in the World Values Survey, only one other country (Iceland) has a significantly higher …

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A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2006

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik : Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor) - 2006

The paper reviews national and international experiences with different combinations of in-work benefits, subsidized employment, statutory minimum wages and implicit minimum wages defined by social assistance provisions. It calls for a cautious approach regarding the introduction of additional...

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Remittances and the brain drain

Faini, Riccardo (contributor) - 2006

In most destination countries, immigration policies are increasingly tilted toward the most skilled individuals. Whether this shift hurts economic prospects in sending countries, as argued by the traditional brain drain literature, is somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330458

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