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Socioeconomic inequality in low-carbon technology adoption
Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023
The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449209
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Pollution abatement and control expenditure in Romania : a multilevel analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The study not only considers the stringency but also the...
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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Eco-innovation and employment: a task-based analysis
Elliott, Robert J. R.; Kuai, Wenjing; Maddison, David; … - 2021
This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that eco-innovation has no impact on overall employment. However, compared to non- eco-innovators there is an...
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The economic impact of non-communicable disease in China and India : estimates, projections, and comparisons
Bloom, David E.; Cafiero, Elizabeth T.; McGovern, Mark E.; … - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
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How to control for many covariates? : reliable estimators based on the propensity score
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2010
and other variants of matching, as well as different parametric models. The simulation design used is based on real data … usually employed for the evaluation of labour market programmes in Germany. We vary several dimensions of the design that are …
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In-work policies in Europe : killing two birds with one stone?
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Orsini, Kristian (contributor) - 2004
three European countries which experience severe poverty traps, namely Finland, France and Germany. The potential labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540602
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Why is pollution from US manufacturing declining? : the roles of trade, regulation, productivity, and preferences
Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - 2015
Between 1990 and 2008, emissions of the most common air pollutants from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent, even as real U.S. manufacturing output grew substantially. This paper develops a quantitative model to explain how changes in trade, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer...
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