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Is free trade good for the environment?
Antweiler, Werner; Copeland, Brian Richard; Taylor, … - In: The American economic review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 877-908
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
Mariani, Fabio - 2009
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...
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Climate change policy after Kyoto
Metcalf, Gilbert E. (contributor) - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 552-574
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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties : European Versus American Cities
Picard, Pierre M. - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...
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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe : A Wage Decomposition Approach
McGuinness, Seamus - 2016
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home region rather than to go prospecting in more dynamic areas. In this paper, we attempt to...
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Eponymous entrepreneurs
Belenzon, Sharon; Chatterji, Aaron; Daley, Brendan - In: The American economic review 107 (2017) 6, pp. 1638-1655
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Is European unemployment classical or Keynesian?
Coen, Robert M. - In: The American economic review 78 (1988) 2, pp. 188-193
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National treatment in the GATT
Horn, Henrik - In: The American economic review 96 (2006) 1, pp. 394-404
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