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Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries
Chung, Yeimin - 2013
This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained from the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two...
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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions : New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries
Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Bélaïd, Fateh - 2023
This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
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Does Access to Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
Mullins, Jamie - 2019
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859768
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Environmental Disasters and Migration
Mbaye, Linguère - 2015
This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014049
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Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?
Garg, Teevrat - 2020
Why do damages from changes in environmental quality differ across and within countries? Causal investigation of this question has been challenging because differences may stem from heterogeneity in cumulative exposure or differences in socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833875
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution : Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2014
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061047
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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870238
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'It's Not that I'm a Racist', it's that They are Roma : Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - 2015
This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify the determinants of educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039454
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - 2013
The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade'...
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