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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour
Boutin, Delphine - 2014
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419031
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The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labour markets: evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
Seltzer, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ choice of potential employers. Using GIS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603796
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502647
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Deconstructing informality : a response to vulnerability or an optimal choice?
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon; Liang, Zhe - 2016
The rapid growth of informal employment in China in recent decades has attracted attention, but to understand its implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried workers who have long-term contracts; the self-employed;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518031
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COVID-19, race, and redlining
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249344
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Health and nody mass index : no simple relationship
Hübler, Olaf - 2017
Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625394
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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two … decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193738
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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses …' vulnerability. Latent class analysis was used to explore the vulnerability types, and weighted linear regressions examined the … relationship between vulnerability, aging attitudes and emotional responses. Results showed that the proportion for individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887268
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Guilt aversion in (new) games : does partners' payoff vulnerability matter?
Attanasi, Giuseppe; Rimbaud, Claire; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2023
We investigate whether a player's guilt aversion is modulated by the co-players' vulnerability. To this goal, we … introduce new variations of a three-player Trust game in which we manipulate payoff vulnerability and endowment vulnerability …. The former is the traditional vulnerability which arises when a player's material payoff depends on another player …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013547714
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Sustaining poverty gains : a vulnerability map to guide social policy
Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar; Bossuroy, Thomas; Corral … - 2024
and vulnerability estimation to create highly disaggregated vulnerability maps. The maps include predictions of the share … of chronically poor households (poverty-induced vulnerability) - the focus of traditional poverty maps - and the share of … households showing a significant probability of falling into poverty (risk-induced vulnerability). As an application of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015044940