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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico

Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022

While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...

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Covid-19 and working from home : toward a "new normal"?

Kosteas, Vasilios D.; Renna, Francesco; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2022

during the first part of the pandemic. We also review the results of the literature on two important dimensions of inequality …: the gender wage gap and income inequality, Moreover, we review some evidence of the effect of WFH on worker's productivity …

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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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COVID-19 labour market shocks and their inequality implications for financial wellbeing

Botha, Ferdi; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; New, Sonja C. de; … - 2020

and inequality. …

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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities

Murat, Marina; Bonacini, Luca - 2020

School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...

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Whither the evolution of the contemporary social fabric? : new technologies and old socio-economic trends

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019

The reflections which follow build on two interrelated questions, namely, first, whether we are witnessing another "industrial revolution", and second, what is the impact of technological transformations upon the current dynamics of the socio-economic fabric, especially with respect to...

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Wealth inequality and economic growth : evidence from the world inequality database

Steenbrink, Rachel; Skali, Ahmed - 2024

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

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COVID-19 pandemic and the health and well-being of vulnerable people in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022

Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...

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Does global warming worsen poverty and inequality? : an updated review

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hallegatte, Stéphane; Trong Anh Trinh - 2023

warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … vulnerability especially in poorer Sub-Saharan Africa, there is inclusive evidence on climate change impacts on inequality. Further …

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