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In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
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China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …
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schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily … pollution estimated for the US using aggregate data. Using school absence patterns as a window into short-run health and … residence in north China comes at the expense of long-term health. …
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China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track …Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades … pollution along major highways linking the two cities. Our approach involves the use of an augmented regression discontinuity in …
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This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five …
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examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper …. To evaluate the impact of the import ban on air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our …
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Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...
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This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...
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In this paper, we estimate the demand for workers by sector and occupation using system dynamic OLS techniques to account for the employment dynamics dependence across occupations and sectors of industry. The short run dynamics are decomposed into intra and intersectoral dynamics. We find that...
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Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion from about ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries. These thirty industries are in the tails of the earnings distribution, and are clustered especially in high-paying high-tech and low-paying...
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