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Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
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Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249733
Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce mobility in order to prevent the diffusion … of Covid-19. On March 9, 26 out of 111 provinces were subject to severe limitations on individual mobility between … individual mobility in Italy. By using a spatial discontinuity approach, we show that these measures were effective in that they …
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-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all U.S. states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to … 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility using Facebook location data. Then, using the historical position …
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Overall mobility declined during the COVID-19 pandemic because of government lockdowns and voluntary social distancing …. Yet, aggregate data mask important heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility … a larger impact on the mobility of women and younger cohorts. Younger people also experienced a sharper drop in mobility …
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coreperiphery structure induce greater degree of mobility which in turn ends up at a higher infection rate than the more … services are near normal. Using mobility data, we provide direct evidence in support of our proposed mechanism; that the … positive relationship between regional inequality and Covid-19 infection is driven by mobility. Our findings imply that policy …
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We examine economic mobility in India while accounting for misclassification to better understand the welfare e§ects of … matrices. Allowing for modest misclassification, we find overall mobility has been remarkably low: at least 65 percent of poor …
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with superstar phenomenon, increases with earnings. Our results suggest a novel margin of mobility responses for top …
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at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a mobility restricting clause (i.e., a … tenure, perceived expected performance, and mobility. Only younger players (i.e., restricted free-agents) with high expected … mobility but low expected performance tend to behave strategically and perform better. Differently, older players (i …
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We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing consumption data in cross sectional household surveys, to...
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