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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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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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North-South displacement effects of environmental regulation: the case of battery recycling
Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … increased at battery-recycling plants, relative to comparable industries, and birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of …
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Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? : experimental evidence from Peru
Fuhrmann, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, Kristian; … - 2024
-environmental behavior. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households' recycling behavior in urban Peru … the likelihood that households start to recycle, and the frequency of recycling among households that already recycled …
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Advanced digital technologies and investment in employee training : complements or substitutes?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rückert, Désirée; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2023
Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, we show that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee after adopting advanced digital technologies (ADT). We estimate with a control function approach firm-level production functions augmented with two...
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The effects of shared school technology access on students digital skills in Peru
Bet, German; Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences
Arntz, Melanie - 2019
Computing power continues to grow at an enormous rate. Simultaneously, more and better data is increasingly available and Machine Learning methods have seen significant breakthroughs in the recent past. All this pushes further the boundary of what machines can do. Nowadays increasingly complex...
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Digging into the digital divide: workers' exposure to digitalization and its consequences for individual employment
Genz, Sabrina; Schnabel, Claus - 2021
While numerous studies have analyzed the aggregate employment effects of digital technologies, this paper focuses on the employment development of individual workers exposed to digitalization. We use a unique linked employer-employee data set for Germany and a direct measure of the first-time...
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Digital divide or digital provide? : technology, time use and learning loss during COVID-19
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Bhattacharjee, Anindita - 2022
COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on primary and secondary school children in slum and rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270254
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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
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